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2020 News

  1. Lucerne without effluent for less N and more C

    Keeping our waterways healthy has a lot to do with what we apply to our land.

  2. Getting smarter about sediment control

    New Zealand is losing 192 million tonnes of soil each year due to erosion, the equivalent of more than 7 million dump-truck loads.

  3. What’s happening on our land?

    Land Cover Database version 5 out now!
    In the past six years, more than half a million hectares of New Zealand’s land cover have changed, according to the latest version of New Zealand’s Land Cover Database (LCDB, version 5).

  4. How is New Zealand's landscape changing?

    New Zealand’s land cover is constantly changing. This week sees the release of version 5 of New Zealand’s Land Cover Database (LCDB), which details these changes, helping us to understand how the way we are using our land is changing.

  5. KiwiNet – successful innovation funding for some of our young scientists

    The Kiwi Innovation Network (KiwiNet) is a New Zealand network of public research organisations, working together to transform scientific discoveries into marketable products and services. KiwiNet acts as a channel for collaboration, empowering people by helping them to access the tools, connections...

  6. World attention for New Zealand’s threatened fungi

    Established in 1964, the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species (www.iucnredlist.org) is a critical indicator of the health of the world’s biodiversity. It is now viewed as the world’s most comprehensive information source on the global conservation status of...