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  1. A new national soil carbon monitoring system for agricultural land

    Every year, under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Agreement, New Zealand is obliged to report its national human-produced (anthropogenic) greenhouse gas emissions and removals. With average soil carbon stocks in New Zealand’s agricultural soils estimated at ab...

  2. Regen ag: does the science stack up?

    Regenerative agriculture, a term first coined in the 1970s, applies an adaptive ecological approach to agricultural landscape management, with a focus on ecosystem health.

  3. VR experience showcases prehistoric, present and future New Zealand environments

    Taking a virtual step back in time and experiencing untouched prehistoric, present and future New Zealand environments is soon going to be possible.

  4. Decision-making in freshwater management – a social learning approach

    Scientists have long-recognized that one of their biggest challenges is how to translate their recommendations into lasting management and behaviour changes among stakeholders. Individuals or people working in organisations may not be able to make changes easily, owing to a combination of norms and ...

  5. The post-lockdown future of work

    A constant in science is the need to interact with other scientists. New Zealand’s scientists maintain their credibility and skills by working with other science leaders, nationally and globally, and this cannot be done by staying at home. However, the COVID-19 lockdown has challenged our thinking a...

  6. Our COVID-19 research

  7. National environmental reporting – our science behind the headline reports

    The recent increase in environmental regulations in New Zealand, including the National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management (2013, 2017, 2019) and the recent National Policy Statement for Highly Productive Land, is increasing demand for monitoring and assessing the impacts of land use on our ...

  8. Celebrating our achievements

    Researcher Murray Dawson became a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the Queen’s Birthday Honours 2020, a well-deserved recognition for Murray’s long career and voluntary work supporting botany, horticulture, natural history, and public engagement.

  9. Listening to the voices of our environment

    Te Urewera is a remote, rugged area of hill country in the North Island, and is central to the wellbeing of Ngāi Tūhoe. From 1954 until 2014 much of Te Urewera was designated a National Park. At this point something extraordinary occurred: Te Urewera achieved legal personification under the Te Urewe...

  10. Celebrating our achievements

    Building on her significant contributions to the approval of the Global Assessment on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services at the Intergovernmental Panel of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) in Paris in May 2019, Anne-Gaelle Ausseil has now been nominated to scope the nexus assessment of in...