Conservation groups hail Niue's move to "lock up" half its EEZ as a vast ocean reserve.

NZ is unlikely to see anything as hellish as 50C days warned for Melbourne and Sydney.

NZ's methane accounting is "accurate" despite study suggesting a global under-estimate.

Scientists estimate that by 2050 the rate of inflight injuries will have almost tripled.

Kiwi scientists have hailed the Nobel-winning team behind a landmark cosmic discovery.

Could a volcanic eruption in Bali mean a cooler spring and summer for New Zealand?

Zealandia was shallow enough to have pathways for animals and plants.

What if we flipped the paradigm and fed methane to cattle? Scientists explain the case.

Giant meteorites may have triggered our planet's tectonic processes and magnetic field.

Combining blueberries with colourful cousins bilberries could yield a new superfruit.

Could we breed better bees? That's the goal of a new $6.3m genetic study.

Rich resources of oil and gas could lie trapped inside volcanoes buried off our coasts.

Asteroid mining is about to change our pursuit for resources.

Could our desire for that evening glass of wine be linked to our brain's immune system?

COMMENT: Ice mined on Mars could provide water for humans exploring space.

Whether world ends on Saturday as some fear, capitalism is already a global catastrophe.

Is our news media covering climate change accurately? Researchers have checked the record.

Google-built AI software has been trained to recognise calls of threatened native birds.

Could we forecast precisely enough to be warned of local severe weather within an hour?

Is you scratching stress related?

The lead author of a leaked report gives the basics of climate change and sea-level rise.

Scientists will model the risks of a future "super-eruption" in a new $8.2 million study.

An ancient kauri tree has revealed a period of warming on the other side of the planet.

The latest bout of unrest at Mt Ruapehu's crater lake has come to an end, scientists say.

Gas-guzzling bugs in extreme New Zealand environments could help combat climate change.

Scientists explain the curious "silent quakes" set off by November's Kaikoura earthquake.

A Kiwi designer has created a synthetic Venus fly trap even creepier than the real thing.

Kiwi scientists have captured the birth of a new gene in real-time evolution experiments.

Hidden beneath the frozen surface of Antarctica lie warm caves that could harbour life.

Each of us harbours a garden of microbes that influence us in ways we could never imagine.