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Tag: "Environment"
Forest & Bird reveals Government mining plans
Conservation organisation Forest & Bird has uncovered Government plans to allow mining in 7000 hectares of high-value conservation land in the West Coast’s Paparoa National Park, Great Barrier Island and the Coromandel Peninsula.
Mar 16, 2010 | 2 comments
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Trees still protected in Auckland
Auckland City Council’s restrictions on the removal of trees still apply until 1 January 2012 despite the passing of the Resource Management (Simplifying & Streamlining) Amendment Bill last night.
Sep 15, 2009 | 0 comments
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Strike while the iron is hot
The met service has reported that we had the warmest August ever since records began with about 1.5 degrees above average, which does not seem a much on those odd cold days, but for a lot of insect pests it means an early arrival. A good hard, cold winter takes its toll on insect populations [...]
Sep 07, 2009 | 2 comments
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NIWA selects IBM to provide new Supercomputer to advance environmental forecasting
Auckland, New Zealand, 31 August 2009 – The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) and IBM (NYSE:IBM) today announced a multi-million dollar partnership where NIWA will purchase one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers for use in environmental forecasting.
Sep 03, 2009 | 0 comments
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Cuba: Gardening its Way Out of Crisis
Sunlight brightens the paved streets and historic buildings of Havana, Cuba, bouncing off the tents of vendors and the tin drums of a street band. Once stricken by poverty and inequality, the city has slowly blossomed as a result of the bustling enterprise of urban agriculture. Between buildings and behind street walls, in every green [...]
Aug 17, 2009 | 0 comments
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Denmark is truckloads of waste ahead of New Zealand when it comes to recycling.
Denmark is truckloads of waste ahead of New Zealand when it comes to recycling. When you visit a typical recycling depot in Denmark it can be difficult to know where to back in the trailer. After all there’s the not just the sections for paper or glass, but rows of options like for gib-board, electronic [...]
Aug 10, 2009 | 0 comments
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