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Today there are 5554 new cases of Covid-19 in the community, says the Ministry of Health. The ministry is also reporting...
The echoes of the global pandemic are likely to ring on for years longer because governments have failed to tackle it together,...
New Zealand's long-lost moa can offer useful insights into how today's species might respond to a fast-changing climate,...
It's taken just three months for New Zealand's cumulative Covid-19 case count to leap from less than 20,000 to a million...
Scientists are warning that disastrous, once-in-a-century flood events today could be happening annually in our two biggest...
Freshly-installed seismometers – one of them now operating at an underground depth roughly equivalent to the height of Auckland's...
Two top epidemiologists say it's time for the Government to replace our "highly inefficient" Covid-19 traffic lights with...
A major new study has delivered a grim prognosis for our postcard glaciers. But, as science reporter Jamie Morton explains,...
The next Covid-19 wave could hit New Zealand as early as winter or spring - and perhaps less severely than our main Omicron...
As New Zealand moves to the less-restrictive orange traffic light setting at midnight, Professor Michael Baker says he'd...
Experts have compared Australia's Omicron experience with our own to conclude New Zealand needs to be strengthening its public...
One of the first studies of its kind has found that Māori and Pasifika, while at higher risk from Covid-19, are reassuringly...
Modellers estimate as many as 1.7 million Kiwis have been exposed to the coronavirus – while more than four million of us...
BA.2 is on track to all but squeeze its Omicron cousin out of Covid-19 circulation in New Zealand – but there's still no...
We're in the thick of an Omicron wave right now – but what can we expect when other, more familiar viruses return to a reopened...
A Niwa climate scientist is expecting to find the South Island's postcard glaciers and snowlines in a "crappy" state after...
A researcher's modelling exercise has underscored a glaring gap in Omicron infection risk between the boosted and unvaccinated...
New Zealand's continuing over-use of antimicrobial medicines is raising the danger of drug-resistant superbugs and making...
David Seymour has suggested it's time to "move on" from mandates – but scientists have taken apart the argument the ACT leader...
The Omicron wave is stripping away one of New Zealand's trustiest test tools, as labs are forced to move away from batch-processing...
New Zealand is now truly pushing its luck with Omicron, an epidemiologist says, as officials report the single highest daily...
Another silent, slow-burning earthquake is unfolding beneath New Zealand – and it could keep rolling on for months to come. Over...
Parts of the North Island could be soaked with more than 100mm of rainfall when a low-pressure system rolls into New Zealand...
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