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The Environmental Science students share stories on topics of interest including didymo, mangroves and the fashion industry in this class blog.
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If you've seen a climate crisis documentary before, you’ve probably seen plenty of icebergs tumbling into the ocean and factories pumping big plumes of smoke into the atmosphere.
A determination to reduce earthquake risk drives the work of Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington’s Dr Carolyn Boulton, who has received a major award from the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
One of SGEES's doctoral students in earthquake geology here at Victoria University of Wellington, Jesse Kearse, co-authored a paper with Yoshihiro Kaneko, an earthquake dynamicist at GNS Science, on the on-fault geological fingerprint of earthquake rupture direction.
