We can’t decide what to call it—marijuana, dope, pot, grass, bud, green, hash, weed, devil’s lettuce, jazz cigarettes—or how to manage it. One thing is certain: cannabis is undergoing a radical image makeover.
 
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June 30, 2017
 
 
 
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Into the weeds

We can’t decide what to call it—marijuana, dope, pot, grass, bud, green, hash, weed, devil’s lettuce, jazz cigarettes—or how to manage it. One thing is certain: cannabis is undergoing a radical image makeover.

 
 
 
 
 
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In the wake of Ross

A team of New Zealand scientists will soon travel to the centre of the Ross Ice Shelf, which is the size of France, passing through the pristine, unknown, unprotected Ross Sea.

 
 
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#SundayDoco: solid water, liquid rock

Ice and fire meet dramatically on the world’s southern-most volcano, Antarctica’s Mount Erebus.

 
 
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Deep trouble

The world’s smallest, rarest dolphin lives in New Zealand. After the expansion of gill-netting in 1970, the population and range of Hector’s dolphin diminished rapidly

 
 
 
 
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Photographer of the Year 2017: Open for entries

We're ready to see the best you have! Entries are now open for the annual New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year—the country’s most popular, prestigious and richest photography competition. There’s more than $5000 in cash up for grabs, and a voyage with Heritage Expeditions.

Have you got what it takes? Enter now.

 
 
 
 
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Sarah vs the state

This week a Waikato law student sued the government over its climate change policy, claiming that the low emissions reduction pledge it made as part of the Paris climate negotiations was “unreasonable and irrational”.

 
 
 
 
 
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POHUTUKAWA AN AUSSIE?
The New Zealand Christmas Tree, may have originated in Australia, according to new research based on two 25-million-year-old fossil species.

 
 
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KAIKOURA FISHERY FACES DECADE-LONG CLOSURE
The closure relates to all shellfish and seaweed, but excludes rock lobster and scampi. The Ministry for Primary Industries does not think the stock will recover by November.

 
 
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DOLPHIN DEATH PROBABLY DUE TO ILLEGAL SET-NET
The death of a Hector’s dolphin on the West Coast earlier this year has been blamed on illegal recreational fishing.