Building anything in New Zealand takes too long and costs too much. The government plans to solve this with new legislation ...
Kina numbers have exploded as we’ve eaten too many of their predators – like big snapper and crayfish – that usually keep them in check. The urchins munch through kelp and seaweed, leaving bare rock ...
The country’s run of weather disasters in 2023 has contributed to more despondency over the climate, an expert says. While more than 80 percent of New Zealanders see climate change as a personal ...
A long-awaited methane-hunting satellite is due to launch into orbit on Tuesday and should start supplying a steady stream of information about planet-heating emissions from June. Scientists will ...
Pasture seeds from New Zealand have just arrived in a doomsday mountain vault in Norway, safeguarding their survival into the future. The Svalbard Global Seed vault is on the remote Arctic Svalbard ...
A catchment restoration project in the Marlborough Sounds is bringing a farming community together to tackle water quality issues and achieve wider conservation goals. The Te Hoiere Project seeks to ...
Journalist Kate Evans and presenter Claire Concannon discover a world of snapping shrimp, singing whales and barking John Dory. Researchers Professor Craig Radford and Dr Jenni Stanley are uncovering ...
The son of a missing tramper in dense Tararua Ranges says he trusted his intuition and separated from Search and Rescue finding his dad less than an hour later. Seventy-two-year-old Brent Harrison was ...
With silt suffocating productive land across Hawke’s Bay after Cyclone Gabrielle, horticulturalists are grappling with growing in the new conditions. But Plant and Food Research is on a mission to ...
The co-author of a new study illustrating the severity of hurricanes and cyclones says the winds in the strongest storms are getting stronger because of climate change. The study, published earlier ...
Hundreds of snapper are floating in the sea off Auckland, and are washing up dead or dying on beaches off the Hauraki Gulf. Fisheries New Zealand is warning the public not to eat the fish “for safety ...
93% of New Zealand is covered in salt water. 80% of our biodiversity is in our seas. And yet this is the part of our realm we understand the least and treat the worst. Today, attitudes are turning ...