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Climate explained: why does geothermal electricity count as renewable? geothermal. Susan Krumdieck , University of Canterbury Read more...

The explosion in a Beirut portside warehouse containing over 2,750 tonnes of ammonium nitrate on August 4 has done its bit to light more fires under Lebanon’s ruling powers. With the blast still bloodily fresh and traumatic – the destruction of ... Read more...

National Leader Judith Collins says the September 19 election should be pushed back due to the new covid-19 infections. Read more...

The application of scientific knowledge has been embraced by industry as a means of enriching owners for over two hundred years. Science is knowledge of the natural and social world gained through observation and experimentation based on evidence. ... Read more...

As Melbourne has shown, the webs of urban life overlap so extensively that community transmission can be very hard to trace, let alone control. Each of the family members in the South Auckland family at the centre of the current outbreak will have had ... Read more...

The dissolution of Parliament has been deferred by at a least a few days due to the new covid-19 cases, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said. This was in case Parliament had to be reconvened as more information came to light, Ardern said at a briefing ... Read more...

Auckland will move to level 3 covid-19 restrictions from midday Wednesday after four positive cases of the virus outside of managed isolation, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said. The rest of the country would also move to level 2 restrictions with ... Read more...

Watch: Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Director General of Health Dr Ashley Bloomfield are a holding media briefing. Read more...

Auckland is moving into level three covid-19 restrictions after four cases of the virus were detected in one family in Auckland, PM Jacinda Ardern said. The rest of the country will move to level two restrictions from midday tomorrow. There were ... Read more...

Trump Trade Policies and Mishandling of Coronavirus Pandemic Have 'Wiped Out' US Manufacturing Jobs: Economist "Trump's erratic, ego-driven, and inconsistent trade policies have not achieved any measurable progress, despite the newly combative ... Read more...