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NIWA scientists leading New Zealand’s MethaneSAT agricultural emissions science programme are gearing up for the launch of its satellite.

OPINION: There used to be a phrase that stated that ‘NZ lived off the sheep’s back’.

The soil food web can be thought of as the soil biome.

Too passive: that's how the Government's chief science advisor Sir Peter Gluckman has described farmers' attitudes to research.

At a forestry event last year a speaker talking about forest owners' spending on science asked, "How much does the kiwifruit industry commit to research?"

Farmers are being urged to do their homework and look for hard data before buying grass seed, to ensure they make the correct choice.

Forest owners say kinks in the laws covering the release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) need to be ironed out.

A conferance on NZ sheep milking is being held next month at Massey University, and it's already attracting participants from around the world.

A leading soil scientist says the exact science to meet the demand by the public and government to improve water quality hasn't been in place.

Chinese scientists have signed a deal to set up a commercial animal cloning centre in the northern port city of Tianjin.