Raw sewage has been spewing into the South coast and further out to the Cook Strait since the plant's massive failure two ...
Explainer - It's the season, and you can't miss the buzzy chorus. So how do these insects make so much noise, and is it dangerous?
Quick Take The kākāpō is a flightless parrot inhabiting just a few islands off New Zealand’s coast. Females breed only when ...
The results, which also show significant feral deer reduction, demonstrate how predator and pest control can give hope for returning species that are reaching the limits of their current habitat, such ...
Technology may be finally shifting the balance in preventing the extinction of some of NZ’s most vulnerable native species ...
New Zealand's Court of Appeal has finished hearing an appeal from the Christchurch mosque gunman, in proceedings that were quiet and tightly controlled.
Islands are known for producing unusual animals, and a newly studied extinct bird from Hawaii may be one of the strangest yet. Scientists have discovered that a flightless Hawaiian ibis called ...
Islands are famous for producing some of the world's strangest creatures, and now a new international study shows that the evolution of bird species on Hawaiian islands includes an ibis with unusually ...
Islands are famous for producing some of the world's strangest creatures, and now a new international study shows that ...
Starlings and blue tits, meanwhile, use scent to seek out aromatic plants such as yarrow, hogweed and elder, which they weave ...