J Swap, a company involved in quarrying, wants land protected under QEII covenants to be available to quarry. It donated $11,000 to NZ First in December, after the coalition was formed. It also gave ...

The gains made in agricultural science over the past decade could slow as the government funding tap runs dry, the director of a programme using science to fix real-world issues in Aotearoa’s natural ...

The government has welcomed the end of a ban on some fish exports to the United States. A US court ordered an immediate ban on New Zealand exports of several species from two fisheries off the North ...

The Bounty Islands jut out of the water like giant granite fins. Steep and sheer, with no greenery in sight. Covered instead by a mottled white – guano or bird poo from the tens of thousands of ...

Kaitiaki of a world-reknowned wetland at the bottom of the North Island are excited about the return of a critically endangered bird, the matuku-hurepō or Australasian Bittern. Researchers listening ...

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 ...

More than 50,000 people gathered at Waitangi on February 6, 2024—one of the largest attendances on record. What brought them? Driving south on State Highway 1 in the middle of the night, the crescent ...

Sponges evolve at "super speed", marine biologists at Te Herenga Waka/Victoria University have discovered—and that's great news for our seas. As founding editor Kennedy Warne writes in Issue 129, ...

The Commerce Commission says it has a track record of investigating and taking action against environmental claims in response to a call by Consumer New Zealand for a targeted investigation. Consumer ...

Both the Aurora Australis and Aurora Borealis have been particularly active following recent solar storms, more of which are expected this week. Astronomer and Otago Museum Director Dr Ian Griffin ...

It has been a soggy few weeks for the upper North Island, with late January’s Auckland downpour and now, Cyclone Gabrielle. States of emergency have been declared across Ikaroa-a-Māui, schools and non ...

Author and documentary filmmaker Bill Morris takes us back in time in his new book The Road to Gondwana – in search of the lost supercontinent. Aotearoa New Zealand is just one fragment of this giant ...