Honey bee brood – the larvae and pupae of drones – has great potential as…
Month: November 2016
Why conservation fails
To meet the Paris Agreement, northern leaders at COP22 should commit to paying for forest…
Almost half of kids childcare children have respiratory virus, study shows
Forty-three per cent of children at two daycare centers researchers studied had at least one…
Timing the shadow of a potentially habitable extrasolar planet paves the way to search for alien life
Scientists have observed the transit of a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet known as K2-3d. A…
Japan Fukushima nuclear plant ‘clean-up costs double’
Japan estimates the cost of dealing with the Fukushima nuclear disaster has doubled, reports say.
Great Barrier Reef suffered worst bleaching on record in 2016, report finds
This year saw the worst-ever destruction of coral on the Great Barrier Reef, a new…
Flood spending decisions ‘perverse’, Green Alliance says
England spends nearly four times more on activities that may cause flooding than it invests…
Croatian scientists ‘find 30 new species in caves’
Scientists say they have discovered 30 new species of animal in subterranean caves, following a…
After the quake
Cut off from the outside world, quake-hit Kaikoura’s businesses face uncertainty but vow to hold…