For many years I lived at Portobello, on the Otago Peninsula, near Dunedin. At the weekend I’d often head out on my bike to Taiaroa Head, at the tip of the peninsula. What drew me there were the albatrosses – the only mainland colony of albatrosses anywhere in the world. As I approached I’d start […]

Guest Blogger: Radio New Zealand’s Our Changing World environment reporter, Alison Ballance Last week I interviewed two NIWA scientists – Philip Boyd and Cliff Law – about ocean fertilisation, or iron enrichment. Most of us have heard about this ambitious plan, to help solve global warming by dumping large amounts of iron into the ocean, generating […]