Science & Environment

An unprecedented early whopper of a storm shows the literal hot water the Atlantic and Caribbean are in right now, experts said.

New Zealand's biggest investors are being told to accelerate climate action after a survey revealed slow movement in the drive to net zero emissions.

Kiwi teachers have worked out different ways to teach the sometimes uncomfortable subject to different groups of kids, recent research has found.

Wet days could get 10 percent wetter and the driest group of days 10 percent drier across parts of New Zealand, a new study has found.

Analysis - For the last 10 years, the NZ science ecosystem has featured a series of 11 big, keystone projects on big, gnarly challenges.

Lab-grown food might seem like science fiction, but researchers in NZare already making massive gains in creating meat and dairy products in the lab.

Simon Watts says the methane review will "timebox" the contentious issue and help farmers move on with lowering their climate impact.

Farmers have been told if they snooze when it comes to reducing emissions they'll lose.

Analysis - Climate change is a risk that home buyers have not priced in as they pursue lifestyles near water or bushland or simply to get onto the property ladder.

The government's decision to delay pricing agricultural emissions and scrap the sector-led He Waka Eke Noa - Primary Sector Climate Action Partnership - initiative has been welcomed by Taranaki…

One man killed 65 cats, landing him a $500 prize. The organiser says despite protesters, "out here in the country, we do things a bit differently". Audio