The eldest son of Elizabeth and John Dickens was born in February 1812 on Portsea Island in the British city of Portsmouth, and moved around with his family in his younger years to Yorkshire and ...

Five things to do in the garden this week: Fruit. An excellent choice for a small ornamental tree with year-round interest is the kumquat or one of its hybrids, which do not eclipse eight feet in ...

Would you give up your sense of smell to keep your hair? What about your phone? A 2022 US study compared smell to other senses (sight and hearing) and personally prized commodities (including money, a ...

Taxpayer money has been spent on a research project that used methods such as whale song and whale-oil potions to treat Kauri dieback. The project, funded through the National Science Challenges ...

The Taxpayers’ Union can reveal through an Official Information Act request that Landcare Research gave $4,027,020 on the Oranga (Wellbeing) Project - including treating Kauri dieback with ...