Science & Environment

Before you click that online order, have a think about what all these door-to-door deliveries are doing to the climate. It may be worse than you think.

A pod of 40 false killer whales and bottlenose dolphins have been euthanised after becoming stranded again on a reef near Mahia.

An 11-year-old Tūtūkākā student's push for safer Whangārei District Council weed-spraying around his school is paying off.

Japan has become the fifth country to put a spacecraft on the moon but the probe is not generating solar power, its space agency says.

Coping with extreme, often traumatic, weather events is nothing new for the people of Tai Rāwhiti, says RNZ's chief executive and former resident Paul Thompson. Just don't call them resilient.

The advice was never officially presented because the new government suspended the need for regulatory impact statements for undoing Labour-era policies.

Far north iwi Ngāti Kuri will inject more resource into its successful environmental restoration projects with a $6.6 million Foundation Far North Grant.

One of the world's most invasive species is taking advantage of Australia's wild weather.

The test results confirmed it was consistent with a discharge of animal byproducts, and aligned with a discharge from the council wastewater treatment plant.

Owners of a fully electric vehicle could end up paying twice as much per kilometre as someone with a petrol car, a climate and energy expert says.

Toxic algae has also been widespread throughout the East Coast this summer.

Chinese researchers have cloned the first rhesus monkey, a species which is widely used in medical research.

The University of Auckland's climate scientist Dr Kevin Trenberth says it is "not surprising" that 2023 was the hottest year on record.