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[ad_1] New Zealand is not speaking at an international summit of climate leaders this weekend, yet it is watching from the sidelines. The Climate Ambition Summit 2020 is being held on the fifth anniversary of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. The United Nations, the United Kingdom and France are co-sponsors …

[ad_1] Covid-19 has caused New Zealand’s average residential energy use to rise in 2020, but the average bill is the lowest in a decade. Data released by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment showed that the national average residential energy bill dropped by $ 126 a year, five years …

[ad_1] Players practice at the Auckland ASB Tennis Center in January under orange skies, due to smoke from the Australian bushfires. Photo / Jason Oxenham The unusual nature of Australia’s Black Summer wildfires may have ushered in a new fire-fueled “ice age” and the world appears to have “crossed a …

[ad_1] Queues spilled out of CS Dempster Gate, as cricket fans packed Basin Reserve Hill and the Black Caps delighted them with another knockout punch on Super Saturday. Just a week after their innings and first 134-race victory at Hamilton, New Zealand’s four-pronged attack was once again too intense for …

[ad_1] Supplied Professor Jim Flynn was an ardent defender of free speech. Professor James (Jim) Robert Flynn, internationally renowned professor of psychology and politics and defender of free speech, has died. The emeritus professor at the University of Otago passed away on Friday at the age of 86. He developed …

[ad_1] Protesters stand in front of Prairieton Rd from the Federal Chamber of Death Friday in Terre Haute, Indiana. Photo / AP The Trump administration continued its unprecedented series of post-election federal executions on Friday (Saturday NZT) by killing a Louisiana trucker who severely abused his 2-year-old daughter for weeks …

[ad_1] World Dec 12, 2020, 12:55 PM4 minutes to read US President Donald Trump previously criticized the FDA for taking too long to authorize the Pfizer vaccine. Photo / AP The United States has given the final go-ahead to the country’s first Covid-19 vaccine, marking what could be the beginning …

[ad_1] Covid-19 has caused New Zealand’s average residential energy use to rise in 2020, but the average bill is the lowest in a decade. File photo. Photo: 123RF Data released by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment showed that the national average residential energy bill dropped by $ 126 …

[ad_1] Internationally renowned academic and professor emeritus of political studies at the University of Otago, Jim Flynn, has passed away at the age of 86. A long-time chair of the politics department, he was best known internationally for his research on the “Flynn effect,” a substantial and sustained increase in …

[ad_1] The United States has given the final go-ahead to the country’s first Covid-19 vaccine, marking what could be the beginning of the end of an outbreak that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans. Vaccines for healthcare workers and nursing home residents are expected to begin in the next few days …