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The pace of Earth's rotation has slowed, so what does it mean for us? (opens the original)
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Spare a thought for the world’s official timekeepers, who’ll be gathering to vote on a proposal to drop the “leap second”. Photo / Getty Images Every time we move clocks for daylight saving, there’s an inevitable debate about the pros and cons of seasonal time changes. But spare a thought for the world’s official timekeepers, who’ll be gathering on the outskirts of Paris in mid-October to vote on a proposal to drop the “leap second” – the adjustment we use to keep clocks aligned with Earth’s rot
Reintroducing kiwi to Wellington has been a wild, stoat-busting success (opens the original)
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Young Kiwi chicks were deemed big and heavy enough to fend off stoats and their ankle transmitters were removed. Photo / Caleb Smith/Capital Kiwi Project Four years ago, a matriarch arrived with a small entourage for a special homecoming in the hills southwest of Wellington. At nearly 50, Anahera had already produced dozens of offspring and had come to herald the return of wild kiwi to their ancestral lands, some 150 years after they had become locally extinct. The flock of 11 kiwi-nui (North Is
Flu shots for birds: Ambitious world-first vaccination programme underway to protect NZ’s most threatened species (opens the original)
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Protection strategy: Lydia Uddstrom, right, and a DoC colleague vaccinate Gulliver the kākāpō on Whenua Hou. Photo / Ted Thompson / DoC In my first column of the year (you can read it here), I wrote about kākāpō and the night parrots’ best-ever breeding season. Less than six months later, rangers are back tracking birds again, this time to administer a vaccine in an ambitious world-first quest to protect some of New Zealand’s most threatened birds from highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird
Why the predicted El Niño is set to bring more trouble for endangered coral reefs (opens the original)
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Mass bleaching now affects reefs across the world, with the latest event from 2023-25. Photo / Matthew Nitschke My first dive on the Great Barrier Reef some 35 years ago quite literally took my breath away. I’d never seen so much busy, noisy and vibrant life all at once. In contrast, snorkelling on the reef’s southern section in January 2025 was like hovering over a graveyard. At the International Coral Reef Symposium held in Auckland last month, marine scientists warned this year’s looming El N
NZ scientist’s research offers ray of hope for elusive ocean megafauna (opens the original)
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Oceanic manta rays are the largest species, with a fin span of up to 7m and weighing in at two tonnes. Photo / Mark Erdmann With diamond-shaped bodies, huge wing-like fins and the biggest brains of any fish, manta rays are part of the ocean’s charismatic megafauna. Oceanic manta rays are the largest species, with a fin span of up to 7m and weighing in at two tonnes. But these giant, stingless plankton feeders are in decline globally, classified as endangered on the International Union for Conser
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