Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

Restructuring research funding as a choice between discovery and application gets the economics wrong, the evidence wrong and the people wrong.

Few New Zealanders spend much time thinking about volcanic monitoring but when a volcano erupts, we expect expertise to exist immediately.

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A new study finds old-growth forests in Sweden store far more carbon than the industrial tree plantations that are rapidly replacing them, with soil accounting for most of the difference. Protecting u...

New Zealand is badly under-prepared for mass deployment of AI in the public sector - and the latest Budget measures are being made without safeguards, writes Professor Alexandra Andhov

We're looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work at the intersection of ecology and data science. You will analyse existing datasets from New Zealand species, including isotopic data, but there will a...

Conceptual diagram illustrating soil NO and N2O emissions along a temperate forest hillslope. Left panel: Automated soil gas chambers were deployed along a forest hillslope to measure high-resolution...

A generation ago, studying in Australia opened doors. Today rising costs and falling satisfaction are making international students think twice, and locals feel sidelined.

The process of peer review is vital to contemporary science, but is also under enormous strain. This study uses mathematical models to dissect the threats to the long-term viability of peer review, su...

For the first time in more than 40 years, this year’s Rakaia fishing competition will not involve fishing. What has gone wrong?

This is a full time, exempt, fully benefitted position. The starting salary is $74,263 and will be commensurate on experience. Position summary Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies invites applications...

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Could you please provide a list of contracts the University entered into, in 2024 and 2025, with external consulting firms; the topic of the work undertaken (e.g., strategic planning); and the total c...