All News from Tue, 28 Sep 2010
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Greens concerned at native fish study
Green Party co-leader, Russel Norman, comments on newly published research showing that out of 51 native fish species, over two-thirds were classified as either at risk or threatened Read more…
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Obama: Money alone cannot solve US school problems
New Zealand has been given the tick for best comparative student achievement levels by the Education Commission of the United States Read more…
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EU’s big states confirm opposition to GM crop plans
Germany, France, Italy, and Spain have all expressed grave doubts over the viability of the proposal to let EU states decide for themselves whether to grow or ban genetically modified crops Read more…
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Mixed, but predictable, response to Labour’s GST policy
Otago University's Professor Tony Blakely says his research backs reducing the price of vegetables by 12.5 percent Read more…
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Cancer threat to poor demands same action as AIDS
Experts predict that by 2020, 70 percent of all new cancer cases will be in the developing world Read more…
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Suicide rate rises among China’s elderly
Surged above 33 per 100,000 people between 2002 and 2008 compared to 13 per 100,000 people in the 1990s Read more…
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Recession offers chance to re-think coastal development
Environmental Defence Society quotes Royal Society paper on sea level rise Read more…
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DHB targets refugees for checks on lead in blood
After overseas research found toxic levels in spices and in some cosmetics Read more…
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Scientists among recipients of MacArthur ‘genius’ grants
Marine biologist Kelly Benoit-Bird, animator of biological subjects Drew Berry, sign language linguist Carol Padden, computer security scientist Dawn Song, entomologist Marla Spivak, and high school science teacher Amir Abo-Shaeer Read more…
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Peruvian president says Yale must return Inca relics
"Looted" from the country's Machu Picchu site in the early 1900s Read more…
