The Government is opening public consultation on what it says amounts to the biggest changes in New Zealand history to national directions on the likes of freshwater, infrastructure and the primary ...

Two ecologists explain why a misleading map is worse than no map at all, and how they have worked for years to track the ...

Among the changes being proposed are new standards to allow commercial vegetable growers to grow food within a catchment without having to get resource consent, clarifying what a wetland is, enabling ...

Cloudy with a high of 63 °F (17.2 °C) and a 64% chance of precipitation. Winds N at 14 to 19 mph (22.5 to 30.6 kph). Night - Scattered showers with a 85% chance of precipitation. Winds variable ...

Large low pressure zones can produce sudden, unexpected, torrential downpours – as we saw in Nelson yesterday, ahead of ...

A front is expected to bring rain and a risk of severe thunderstorms to western parts of the North Island. MetService watches ...

Only a tiny fraction of the deep ocean is explored, leaving 66% of Earth’s surface largely unseen. Researchers urge global, ...

Partly cloudy with a high of 66 °F (18.9 °C). Winds from NNE to N at 7 to 9 mph (11.3 to 14.5 kph). Night - Cloudy with a 60% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 8 to 9 mph (12.9 to 14.5 ...

A United Nations Committee is being urged to act on human rights violations committed by illegal loggers in Papua New Guinea. Watchdog groups ACT NOW and Jubilee Australia have filed a formal request ...

Cormac White provides an update on his Nuffield scholarship on developing a sustainable small ruminant dairy production ...

Landfall is a haunting and propulsive crime novel, set in 2050s Sydney, that weighs the value of a human life on an ...

China Wednesday launched its Tianwen-2 space mission to collect asteroid samples and conduct a main-belt comet study. A ...