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  1. Coupled systems key to successful climate change outcomes

    Treating climate, biodiversity and human society as coupled systems will be key to successfully mitigate the effects of climate change.

  2. New research highlights the work of Māori in Antarctica

    Over the last 200 years, Antarctic narratives have been of those carried out by predominantly European male explorers. However, a research project led by Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research and Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu researchers looked into the connection of Māori with Antarctica to better document a...

  3. Reconstructing the past from poop: now we know what the little bush moa ate

    Knowledge of the diets of New Zealand's extinct moa comes from careful analysis of moa coprolites (fossilised poop) and gizzard contents. Moa coprolites and gizzard contents can be dissected and analysed under the microscope or using DNA identification techniques to decipher what the birds ate. The ...

  4. Glowing fungi and new rust species among Fungal Foray finds

    Unusual bioluminescent fungi and a new rust species were among the highlights for mycologists at this year’s Fungal Foray held on Rakiura / Stewart Island recently.

  5. Trans-Tasman collaboration unlocks genetic secrets behind myrtle rust

    In a trans-Tasman collaboration, scientists have sequenced the genome of [Austropuccinia psidii], the fungus responsible for the disease myrtle rust, and produced the world’s largest assembled fungal genome.

  6. Building community connections to protect bats in the Piako

    A group of around 25 farmers, Piako residents, land managers and conservation experts explored ways to protect the threatened long-tailed bats in the region at a recent event organised by the Piako Catchment Forum and sponsored by Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research.

  7. Deep ecological research funded for nationally significant Māori rock art sites

    A new research project helping with the ecological restoration of nationally significant Māori rock art sites has received funding.

  8. Taxonomist appreciation day

    It's Taxonomist Appreciation Day today - a day when we say “thank you” for all of the hard work done by taxonomists around the world.

  9. Celebrating our achievements

    Members of the LCDB team at the Science NZ Awards

    Science New Zealand represents the country’s seven Crown Research Institutes, and the annual Awards recognise research excellence at each CRI. In the 2020 ceremony, held at Parliament in December, Bruce Warburton won a Lifetime Achievement Award for...

  10. New wetland educational resources released to schools across Aotearoa

    A new series of repo (wetland) educational resources focusing on education, awareness, and kaitiakitanga (guardianship) is being launched on World Wetlands Day (February 2) to schools throughout Aotearoa New Zealand.