Nature & Environment

No two days are the same for Environment Southland's harbourmaster Lyndon Cleaver, who shares what life is like on the water.

Sociologist and best-selling author Martha Beck shares how she curbs her own off-the-charts anxiety.

Researchers from Otago, Victoria and Massey universities, along with GNS Science, establish a relationship to earthquake swarms and slow slip quakes along the Hikurangi subdication zone, but often…

Red seaweed - grown in Bluff - significantly reduces methane emissions in beef and dairy cattle with no adverse effects to the animals, their products or the environment, scientists say.

Mineralogy International Limited - owned by controversial mining magnate Clive Palmer - applied to surrender 15 of its 16 permits around the country last December.

Eleven Foodstuffs supermarkets in the region are establishing collection points for plastic and metal caps and lids, joining Auckland, Tauranga and Christchurch, in a programme which now has about 50…

Campers are urged to be vigilant and check the local fire danger.

It plans to repay the loan over five years using application levies from would-be beneficiaries of the shortened route planning approval.

The council has found individuals selling cotoneaster, buddleia and an invasive succulent known as pig's ear. A commercial nursery was also found selling a variety of a wilding pine. Audio

On one occasion, a deer's head could be seen floating on the "taonga" lagoon's surface, stinking as it decomposed.

Local ratepayers dispute the local council's version of flooding and erosion risk along the coast.

The environment commissioner called on MPs to spend money improving the quality of environmental data.

An estimated 250,000-300,000 private wells are used for drinking water in Canterbury.

The Eastern Whio Link project is protecting a population of 'scrappy little ducks'.

What lives on an active volcano in Antarctica?