Aotearoa become one of the last places on Earth to be free of a highly contagious strain of bird flu, our Navy wrecked a ship off the coast of Sāmoa, NZ’s employment court deemed abuse and harassment of researchers a serious health and safety concern, and an independent reckoning of NZ’s own Covid-19 response was made public.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.sciencemediacentre.co.nz/2024/12/19/top-10-science-stories-of-2024/