The Tokelau project started with a phone call during lockdown five years ago. Conservation International had been successful with its proposal to MFAT, and wanted us to contribute to a very different ...

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 ...

In 1993, Steven Spielberg made the blockbuster film Jurassic Park, an adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel by the same name. The thesis was that DNA could be extracted from blood which was extracted ...

Gibson’s and Antipodean albatrosses are citizens of no one nation. They are ocean birds, living on the wind and waves, travelling massive distances, passing back and forth over the high seas and the ...

A cetologist who has been researching Cook Islands whales for the past three decades says she is proud of the indigenous leaders for taking a stand for the conservation of to'orā (whales) across the ...

People and livestock gobble so much fish that the seas soon won’t keep up. Is the answer to grow fish on land? Kate Evans meets scientists figuring out the puzzles of how to farm some of New Zealand’s ...

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 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 ...

Half an hour south of Kirikiriroa Hamilton, the Rotopiko wetland reserve is an oasis of trees in a desert of farmland. At dusk these trees fill with hundreds of thousands of starlings and sparrows, ...

As dusk falls at Rotopiko wetland reserve in the Waipā district, a pretty incredible sight emerges: an overhead stream of birds, small dark bodies flitting their way across the fields. The birds home ...

It looks like the work of a small alien race. On the moonscape slopes of Mount Ruapehu, hexagon shapes enclose small patches of scrubby plants. But these are not UFOs. These strange contraptions are ...

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 ...