Why is there a ‘plague’ of feral deer on Hawke’s Bay farms? Garth Eyles
It is all to do with regulations, as DoC explains: The Wild Animal Control Act 1977 is the…
Prehistoric Plague Could Have Caused a Population Collapse in Stone Age Europe
Plague victims buried in a shared grave at Ust’Ida, Lake Baikal. Credit: Vladimir Bazaliiskii Did a major epidemic…
Bangkok Post – Plague was killing hunter-gatherers 5,500 years ago: study
Disease long associated with Europe believed to have emerged far earlier in Siberia Marmots are thought to have…
Mouse plague fears deepen as chemical regulator rejects CSIRO bait research
Farmers battling the worst mouse plague they have ever seen across Western Australia say a solution is being…
Year in Review: Pastures Past – Plague rats in New Zealand in 1900
However, New Zealand also had a brush with plague rats in 1900, as seen in the newspapers below.…
Black Caps v West Indies: Injuries continue to plague New Zealand as tourists survive to force final day
Those injuries come on top of the Black Caps missing Will O’Rourke (back) and Kyle Jamieson working his…
Weather: MetService considers issuing heat alerts as temperatures near thresholds across New Zealand
Christchurch is forecast to reach 29C while Masterton will reach 27C. Both Auckland and Hamilton are forecast to…
Lessons from COVID-19 could help communities better prepare for the next pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided researchers with a wealth of information on contemporary successes and failures in combating…
Urbanization and genetic homogenization in the medieval Low Countries revealed through a ten-century paleogenomic study of the city of Sint-Truiden | Genome Biology
Lawson DJ, Hellenthal G, Myers S, Falush D. Inference of Population Structure using Dense Haplotype Data. Copenhaver GP,…