All posts tagged "research"

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  New research continues to reinforce Ecotain’s nitrogen-reducing capabilities

  New independent research findings continue to highlight the nitrogen mitigating effects of Ecotain environmental plantain, with one study showing it halved the...

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  Better tools to predict heart attacks & stroke in NZ

  University of Auckland academics have developed new equations to predict the risk of cardiovascular disease (mainly heart attacks and strokes) in New...

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  Climate change-induced drought will make plant diseases worse

  New Zealand’s land-based primary industries need to get ready for more, and more serious, crop disease as climate change causes more and...

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  Neighbourhood ‘greenness’ lowers Kiwi kids’ asthma risk

  Children growing up in areas with diverse plant life are less likely to be diagnosed with asthma.

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  Governance of regulatory bodies

  Governance in the public sector has always been a vexed question and a report released by The New Zealand Initiative probes this...

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  Farmer research highlights hill country risks and opportunities

  Farmers from Canterbury and Manawatu have shared their stories on their hill country development experiences with research company UMR through an anonymous...

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  What bugs live in a cow’s gut and how do they make methane?

  A global scientific project led by New Zealand researchers, which has generated a reference set of genome sequences of microbes found in...

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  Expansion and research on the rise

  One in three New Zealand businesses invested in their expansion in 2017, compared with 1 in 5 in 2007, Stats NZ said....

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  Greenhouse gas emissions rise, but at a slower pace than economic growth

  New Zealand’s greenhouse gas emissions rose 24 percent in the past 25 years, but grew more slowly than the economy in general,...

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  Swamp kauri providing a window to the past for scientists

  Ancient swamp kauri is being used by NIWA scientists to reveal the secrets of past climates.