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CNAP is awarding research grants totaling $1.75 million to seven projects that address the challenge of climate change. Program Manager Maggie Allan says the diversity of the selected projects captures how technology is needed to address carbon neutrality but also much more.
“We know that a combination of strategies are going to be required for achieving carbon neutrality, so there isn’t one easy fix, and we need to come at from a lot of different angles and the projects we chose to fund do just that.”
Decisions on funding allocations required a rigorous review process of potential projects. CNAP selected projects with.
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Lake Erie s dead zone blankets several thousand square miles of the lake s bottom. It is oxygen-starved and phosphorus-infused, reducing habitat for fish and other organisms. A new study marks the first time the process to be so closely monitored. Hannah Anderson of the U of M s Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research says this study provides important new evidence. The phosphorus that is being dredged up yearly by the dead zones is a result of the legacy of the impacts of our land use as humans.
Until now, no evidence existed to pinpoint when and where this phenomenon occurs in Lake Erie.
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Tauranga activist Colleen Spiro remembered as warrior for the needy
17 Feb, 2021 06:00 PM
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Colleen Spiro passed away on Sunday night. Photo / Supplied
A warrior for the needy and disadvantaged and a relentless woman who fought for people who couldn t fight for themselves.
That s how Tauranga activist and community volunteer Colleen Spiro is being remembered after her death on Sunday, aged 67.
She had long-term health battles but her passing came as a shock to some who loved her.
Spiro was known for her many efforts to help Tauranga s homeless as well as for being outspoken on various council issues, speaking up for Māori and protesting against racism.