Science & Environment

Something you might not have thought about before is the carbon footprint of your furniture.

But it turns out the foam filling in your couch produces an enormous amount of CO2.

Celine Sandberg is an… Audio

The arrival of helicopters turns the culling business on its head. Hunters shoot deer from the air and with big money to be made, venison recovery will never be the same. Audio

There are growing concerns for the Hauraki Gulf's penguins with ten chicks found starving and dozens dead on Waiheke Island in the past few weeks. It has conservationists worried that we could be… Video, Audio

It's been almost four years since the deadly Whakaari White Island eruption. Now the island's owners, the Buttles, are being held accountable for health and safety failings through their company… Audio

The Environmental Protection Authority is under fire for not insisting that a leaking oil and gas well off the coast of Taranaki be formally abandoned and made safe.

The Kupe South-2 well has been… Audio

Te Papa curator and ornithologist Colin Miskelly is heading out of the museum and walking the length of Aotearoa to document and count every single bird he sees and hears along the way! Audio

Bottled water is now a $300-billion global industry and the most consumed packaged drink. So why are we drinking so much of it and what's the environmental cost? Sociologist Daniel Jaffee explores… Audio

By Eloise Gibson: How did New Zealand come to invest $29 million in a Bezos-backed methane satellite space plan? Audio

The chances of hiking the Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk this summer are not great with the track likely to stay closed until at least mid January next year. It's been shut for more than a year with… Video, Audio

Summer is on its way and that means our cicadas are crawling their way out of the ground to sing up a storm. Did you know Aotearoa is home to the world's only alpine cicadas? It's the Canterbury scree… Audio

Suddenly everyone wants to be a culler but who will make the cut? Audio