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Booze is a factor in nearly one in 10 cases dealt with by Auckland City Hospital's emergency department, new research shows. A...
An air quality scientist said Auckland's strong winds would help dissipate the smoke from the major SkyCity Convention Centre...
Tens of thousands of children are again taking to the streets over climate change action - and this time, they want Kiwi...
Is it spring? Is it winter? Call it "sprinter". After a burst of thunderstorms tracked across Northland and Auckland early...
All of us are eating a lot of plastic without knowing it – maybe as much as a credit card amount each week, one recent report...
Move over, mega parrot: scientists have just revealed that a giant species of penguin – about 1.6m tall – once lived in New...
A magnitude 5.5 earthquake that sent debris rolling down South Island mountains struck on a "dog's breakfast" of tectonic...
Five days after a giant gas explosion reduced a Christchurch home to ruins, experts outside an official investigation are...
Several Department of Conservation staff have been assaulted on the job this year, amid a growing wave of anti-1080 hostility...
The Government will pump more than $200 million into a new programme aimed at cleaning up waterways. Today's Budget included...
A sweeping audit has revealed an environment under attack from virtually every direction – with climate change also now adding...
A leading climate scientist says more pressure needs to be put on the transport sector if New Zealand wants to fulfil its...
New Zealand just sweltered through its second hottest March on record – prompting scientists to highlight the looming hand...
A New Zealand couple who have just biked through 28 countries in 21 months say they've never encountered as much hostility...
A world-renowned charity founded by Hollywood star and Parkinson's sufferer Michael J Fox has put its weight behind a pioneering...
Bike lanes have become a source of tension between motorists and cyclists – so much so that the boil-over effect has been...
Locals were left so spooked by weird tides at a Canterbury beach yesterday that GNS Science experts were asked to look into...
A controversial Chinese experiment aiming to produce HIV-immune children has prompted New Zealand scientists to call for...
A global commission led by a prominent Kiwi health researcher wants leaders to take a hard line against "Big Food" in tackling...
A veteran climate scientist has called 2018 our hottest year on record. Niwa isn't due to release its official summary for...
When it comes to issues as seemingly apolitical as changing the flag, the party leaders we back can still change the way...
As anyone who caught snapper as far south as Doubtful Sound would have surely told you, last summer was incredibly strange. That...
Environmentalists have hit out at a 25-nation union for failing to create in Antarctica what would have been the largest...
New Zealand's environment regulator has drawn up a hit-list of 40 chemicals to reassess - but controversial glyphosate, methyl...
