Emeritus Professor Ralph Cooney ONZM, FRSNZ

The National Institute of Water and Atmosphere (NIWA) has confirmed that winter 2022 is the wettest and warmest on record for New Zealand. As I...

New Zealand, despite being counted as a wealthy first world country, has seriously poor and fragmented water quality management. This failure is demonstrated clearly in...

The success of a future global treaty on plastics waste will require a better understanding of the nature of plastic materials. For a start, the...

Most people have a particular place that is special for them personally because of its unique location and its people, and because it gives us...

Recent international reports have revealed graphic images of extreme heatwaves, flooding, inundation, storms, coastal erosion, ice-sheet melting, and so on. All of these are the...

DNA has been the subject of exceptionally high interest to the public for the last three decades. It played a critical role in the famous...

All electric vehicles (EVs) and most plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) use lithium-ion batteries as their power source. Whereas a mobile phone will be powered by a...

With millions of Kiwis now checking their Covid virus status each day, it is important for the public to be aware of aspects of rapid...

I suspect humanity consists of two types of human beings – those who find major lightning storms strangely fascinating and the remainder that find them...

A frequent question I get asked about climate change is what can an individual do about it? The quick answer is to use your power...