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'A year on is disgusting,' say residents displaced in Auckland Anniversary flood
A year on, much of the city is back to normal, but there are still those struggling in the wake of the floods, still unable to return to their homes.
MetService rolls out storm and fire notifications for app
The weather monitoring agency says the feature is partially a response to the widespread confusion during last year's floods in Auckland. Audio
Restoring Wellington’s seaweed forests
Giant kelp is disappearing from Wellington Harbour. Love Rimurimu is aiming to restore lush underwater kelp forests with an ambitious and collaborative replanting effort. Claire Concannon dives in to… Audio
Women in botany celebrated at Wellington Botanic Gardens
Though often overlooked because of their gender, women botanists have made huge contributions to our knowledge of the natural world over the last 300 years. Audio
Lava cave found in Auckland every month
Researchers and Auckland Council are working collectively to completely map a field of hundreds of lava caves under the City of Sails.
Our Changing World: Love Rimurimu
Giant kelp is under pressure. Can an ambitious underwater forest planting effort help restore this disappearing ocean ecosystem? Audio
New Zealander's winning futuristic climate change story
Kiwi Melissa Gunn is one of the winners of an international short story competition, Imagine 2200: climate fiction for future ancestors, run by American magazine Grist. Audio
Otago Uni biologist made a Fellow of the ISC
Evolutionary biologist Distinguished Professor Hamish Spencer has received international recognition as a new Fellow of the International Science Council (ISC). He's received the highest honour to be… Audio
Piped gas network could face 'death spiral' when prices rise
It comes as two reports suggest gas prices will jump significantly in the next decade.
Shower Thoughts: Why do we value gold?
It's not the rarest, brightest or most practical metal yet for millennia humans have dug and dug and dug in search of this precious resource. Audio
Why there seems to be fewer cicadas this summer
The lack of cicadas in some parts of the country is nothing to worry about, a bug expert says. Audio
Transport Minister says Clean Car Discount costs outweigh benefits
Transport Minister Simeon Brown says the Clean Car Discount was never self-financing, and rescuing the subsidy scheme would have cost more than it generated in benefits.
Waitākere walking track re-opens after 5 year closure
A popular Waitākere walking track has re-opened after a years long closure due to Kauri Die back. Five years ago it was estimated one in five trees in the Waitākere Ranges were infected with the… Video, Audio
Growing concerns for fate of penguins on Waiheke Island
There's growing concern for the fate of kororā penguins on Waiheke island with several found dead and others severely malnourished this moulting season. During January to March, adult kororā penguins… Audio
Data scientist Hannah Ritchie on reasons for climate optimism
While she was writing her book Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet, Dr Hannah Ritchie had a picture of her younger self by her computer. Audio
Steps to stop sunflower selfie-seekers
Taranaki sunflower Scott Andrews has planted 70,000 sunflowers just for the public to enjoy.
But the flowers are so popular with Instagrammers, he's had to take steps to stop selfie-seekers coming on… Audio
Kumara in the Kaipara rebounds after Cyclone Gabrielle
It's almost a year since kumara crops, which were ready to be harvested in the Kaipara District in Northland were pretty much wiped out by two major weather events. Audio
Research aimed at protecting communities against wildfires
Canterbury researchers hope models they are building will help firefighters get ahead of severe blazes.
Summer bugs with Morgane Merien
Why do flies want to get inside our houses so bad? Why do mosquitoes bite some people and not others? And why oh why is New Zealand home to so many creepy crawlies? Audio
Transforming the garden into a 'lizard manor': a guide.
"Think like a skink" - that's the advice of wildlife photographer and enthusiast Holly Neill, who for the past couple of years has been nurturing a lizard garden, or 'Mokomoko Manor'. Audio
