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George Mason Charitable Trust announces $25m gift to advance biological sciences research

11 February 2026

The impact of the late George Mason continues, with a multi-million dollar gift to boost research into the natural environment and biological sciences .
Student innovator builds hazard-reporting site

11 February 2026

Prompted by severe weather and landslides, Yash Kumar developed a website to improve hazard reporting.
Wine-growers are losing the war on fungi

11 February 2026

Opinion: We now know human health depends on a diversity of bacteria and other organisms, and the same is true for vineyards. Nikolai Siimes makes the case for biodynamic farming in the vineyard.
Great balls of fire – over Wellington

10 February 2026

Opinon: On January 30 a fireball streaked across the sky above the capital. What was it? And why did this one hit us? Richard Easther explains.
Forecasting the future of NZ’s oceans and weather

9 February 2026

An $8.9 million project has launched to examine how offshore ocean changes are driving New Zealand’s extreme weather and impacting our coastal waters.
How to turn down the heat on Auckland’s streets

9 February 2026

A University of Auckland planning expert says expanding tree cover and green spaces is critical if Auckland is to adapt to a changing climate.
World fight against invasive species comes to Auckland

9 February 2026

Island Invasives conference returns to University of Auckland.
'Petrelheads' and the restoration of an eccentric native bird

8 February 2026

Commentary: Michael Fox describes how volunteers have maintained traps for rats, stoats, and ferrets, so that more than 150 burrows now exist on the mainland at Te Henga – up from only two in 2014.
Critical minerals and the materials we make from them aren't the same

7 February 2026

Commentary: The geopolitical conversation might be about minerals, but the technological need is for materials. The distinction is important, says Nicola Gaston.
A circular economy is much more than recycling

5 February 2026

What would it take for New Zealand to develop a circular economy?
Dame Margaret Brimble recognised for world chemistry role

5 February 2026

Distinguished Professor Dame Margaret Brimble (Faculty of Science) has been honoured by the Royal Society of Chemistry (London).
A new approach to antimicrobial resistance and environmental risk

5 February 2026

A University of Auckland research collaboration is taking aim at one of the hardest problems in modern medicine and industry: how to kill harmful microbes without leaving a long environmental footprint behind.

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