High-quality sequencing of nearly the entire kākāpō population is helping New Zealand to manage the health of this critically endangered species.
Ecology
Aug 29, 2023
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Anyone who has taken a long road trip or bike ride has used a product of the spurge plant family—rubber. The spurge family, or Euphorbiaceae, includes economically valuable plants like the rubber tree, castor oil plant, ...
Evolution
Jul 25, 2023
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For the first time, researchers have developed a model to estimate how much energy the original colonizers of New Zealand expended to maintain their body temperatures on the cold, harrowing ocean journey from Southeast Asia.
Other
Jul 13, 2023
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New Zealand's 2016 Kaikōura earthquake stopped the Waiau Toa—also known as the Clarence River—in its course. Within hours, the river flooded outside its channel and changed course. In the seven years since the magnitude ...
Earth Sciences
May 30, 2023
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A team of life and environmental scientists from The University of Sydney has found that spraying wheat fields with wheat germ oil after seeding deters mice that feed on seeds. In their study, reported in journal Nature Sustainability, ...
GeoMAP Antarctica, an open-access and comprehensive geological mapping database of Antarctica, was released May 18 in the journal Scientific Data. Understanding Antarctica's geosphere is, and has been, critical for understanding ...
Earth Sciences
May 22, 2023
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New Zealand research could help track the path of searingly hot rock and gas flows that are the world's most deadly volcanic hazard.
Earth Sciences
May 16, 2023
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With recent extreme weather events happening in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally, new research published in Nature Geoscience aims to improve predictions of heavy rainfall and provide the public with earlier warnings ...
Earth Sciences
May 4, 2023
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A team of environmental scientists at the University of Auckland and Manaaki Whenua—Landcare Research, both in New Zealand, has found that one of the reasons for the declining population of the endangered kākāpō is a ...
A trio of environmental engineers, two with the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, the third with the University of Maryland, has developed a way to illustrate the impact of sea level rise isolation associated with ...
