J Swap, a company involved in quarrying, wants land protected under QEII covenants to be available to quarry. It donated $11,000 to NZ First in December, after the coalition was formed. It also gave ...

Gibson’s and Antipodean albatrosses are citizens of no one nation. They are ocean birds, living on the wind and waves, travelling massive distances, passing back and forth over the high seas and the ...

Kina numbers are exploding on some of our reefs, decimating seaweed habitats. Could this problem be solved by eating them? Kate Evans investigates the potential of kina-nomics.

More than 50,000 people gathered at Waitangi on February 6, 2024—one of the largest attendances on record. What brought them?

With their deep green foliage and regal grey trunks, puriri are indeed princes among Northland's trees.

A Selwyn district resident says thousands of stranded eels are covering his property and the local councils have done nothing to stop it from happening. Tim Sanson lives on 60 acres near Lake ...

New Zealand start-up, Daisy Lab, is making milk proteins from microbes through precision fermentation, a technology which has the potential to be a major disruptor of NZ's multi-billion dollar dairy ...

Plans to set up 3000-hectare ecosanctuary in Wainuiomata Lower Hutt have taken a step forward, with a feasibility study from Zealandia's founder. The project would see 29km of predator fencing around ...

Flocks of kererū, kākā and tītī could make a comeback in the central North Island if a tribe's vision for a 2700ha 'inland island' sanctuary moves ahead. The Uenuku iwi plan for an eco-sanctuary for ...

Roland Ennos says humanity owes a huge debt to the most humble of materials; wood. His book The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History takes us on a sweeping ten-million-year ...

A Canterbury University student has devised a biocomposite wall panel that uses algae – or seaweed – as a bio-filler. The plasterboard has fireproofing and moisture control features and is a low-cost ...

A marine heatwave is taking place in the waters around New Zealand, NIWA says. The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) says marine heatwave conditions, classified when the sea ...