Environment
Want seaweed with that?
Supplementing your diet with seaweed could relieve medical problems such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), metabolic syndrome and i...
When cat’s paws grow claws
Sometimes waves are gentle and undulating. But they can become monsters, turning a pleasant cruise into a roiling hell. This often leads to an une...
The Southern Ocean
In 1953, with the stroke of a pen, the most important ocean on the planet disappeared.
The truth is the Southern Ocean had be...
HIJACKING an ICEBERG
Water shortages are becoming increasingly common in a world reeling under global warming and climate change. There aren’t any easy solutions – but fo...
SUPPORT FOR WHITEBAIT CHANGES
Forest & Bird is heartened that 90% of respondents to a Department of Conservation survey support changes to whitebaiting regulations.
“This leve...
RUBBISH RUNNERS
One man’s rubbish, so the old adage goes, is another man’s gold. In some cases, though, the riches aren’t material – their worth is in experience and ...
MELTING ARCTIC ICE OPENS NEW ROUTE
The Venta Maersk, carrying a cargo of frozen fish, arrived in St Petersburg in August, having left Vladivostok (Russia’s Pacific port city) days earli...
Rodney Russ: Southern Ocean Explorer
Russ has spent more time in this ocean than most and has shown more people its beauty than anyone else I know. To say he is a passionate advocate for ...
RIP Diesel?
A bit like Mark Twain who famously declared that media reports of his death were exaggerated, so too reports of the demise of the diesel engine might ...
Sub-Antarctic Shuttle
Not too many boats head south from Bluff, at mainland New Zealand’s southern extremity. But one yacht does so regularly, delivering researchers and sc...
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