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...
Scientists have re-written the histories of New Zealand eruptions - including the largest in 20,000 years - with new research...
A big quake on the Alpine Fault could block South Island highways in more than 120 places and leave 10,000 people cut off,...
Allegations that Japanese ships have been killing whales within the new Ross Sea Marine Protected Area (MPA) near Antarctica...
It's now likely New Zealand will see another El Niño climate system soon - although forecasters don't expect it to be as...
A new discovery in Antarctica has offered new insights into the ancient formation of New Zealand's Southern Alps. A study...
Temperatures across the globe are likely to be unusually warm over coming years, with greater chance of extremes, scientists...
A Kiwi physics experiment has managed to do what decades of international research hasn't - and its findings could help us...
The only tsunami recorded to have killed anyone in New Zealand holds valuable lessons 150 years on, scientists say. What's...
