Science & Environment

Controls have now been imposed on the movement of fruit and vegetables in Papatoetoe, Auckland, where an Oriental fruit fly was found yesterday.

If you bought your live tree in the first flush of festive spirits, chances are it'll be looking past its use-by date by now. Here's how to get rid of it without causing an eyesore.

Meta has promptly deleted several of its own AI-generated accounts after human users began engaging with them and posting about the bots' sloppy imagery and tendency to go off the rails.

What happens behind the scenes so that 20,000 can party in the sprawling 700,000sqm Waiohika Estate in Gisborne.

While the year of this historic eruption was known, the volcano's location was not.

Thick smog is covering Vietnam's capital, caused by heavy taffic, trash burning and industrial activities.

A huge red-hot object fell from the sky into a Kenyan village on Monday afternoon, prompting an immediate investigation by the country's national space agency.

Fossils from an ichthyosaurs found in North Canterbury are helping advanced understanding of these dolphin-like reptiles.

The state's southeastern ocean is experiencing a rare bioluminescent red algal bloom that bursts into vibrant blue at night.

"Over half of all international visitors, and 80 percent of New Zealanders, come and visit our stunning landscapes and protected areas every year."

Ship exhaust spilled into New Plymouth's harbour this morning has now been cleaned up.

Sir Peter Skelton - who was also an Environment Canterbury Commissioner - has been made Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to environmental law.

While estimating the potential toxic chemical exposure from recycled black plastic spatulas, the researchers did not multiply correctly.

The largest solar storm on record lit up skies around the globe in the 1850s - but New Zealand, a technological backwater, escaped the worst of it.

People are being told to avoid popular swimming spots along the Waimakariri River in Canterbury due to high levels of faecal bacteria.

The push is part of the groups wider project that aims to make the entire Wellington region pest free.

A marine heat wave has killed approximately half of Alaska's common murre population, marking the largest recorded die-off of a single species in modern history, research has found.