Chagos coral reefs post bleaching, March 2018 (credit Chris Perry)
The window of opportunity to save the world’s coral reefs is still open but time is running out, new research shows.
An international study involving University of Exeter marine scientist Professor Chris Perry, and jointly led by marine biologist Dr Christopher Cornwall from Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington and Dr Steeve Comeau from the French National Centre for Scientific Research, has calculated how coral reefs are likely to react to ocean acidification and warming under three different climate-change carbon dioxide scenarios – low, medium and worst-case.
The study, just published in the journal PNAS, has some good news to offer amid a grim outlook, but only if rapid action is taken on global CO
Monday, 10 May 2021, 10:54 am
All around the world, governments, economists, and
even neoliberal bastions like the World Bank are urging a
change in the direction of economic policy away from the
mistakes of a decade ago – all except here in New Zealand,
where the government appears determined to repeat them.
Branko Marcetic examines the
Government’s pay freeze for public sector
workers.
Observing events in the rest of the
world, the state of things in Aotearoa can sometimes feel
like they’re happening in an alternate universe. And
that’s not just because for more than a year, New
Zealand’s been living almost as if the pandemic never
Press Release – Science Media Centre A new test that gives women the option to self-screen for cervical cancer, and a more proactive breast screening system, will be funded in Budget 2021. The changes aim to address long-standing inequities around cervical cancer and barriers to getting …
A new test that gives women the option to self-screen for cervical cancer, and a more proactive breast screening system, will be funded in Budget 2021.
The changes aim to address long-standing inequities around cervical cancer and barriers to getting screened. The Government says only 61 per cent of eligible wāhine Māori are reached by the current cervical cancer screening programme.
A new test that gives women the option to self-screen for cervical cancer, and a more proactive breast screening system, will be funded in Budget 2021. The changes aim to address long-standing inequities around cervical cancer and barriers to getting .