When is our next big bang? That's the explosive question a team of scientists are going to try to answer.

Earth has entered its sixth mass extinction with animals dying out at 100 times the normal rate, scientists have warned.

Conservationists say they'll probably never know what caused barracuda to maul dozens of endangered yellow-eyed penguins this year.

Winter is coming in an actual sense, in that winter is coming. I know this because the TV weather people are using the term "polar blast".

The 7.3 magnitude earthquake that hit Nepal on May 12, just weeks after the devastating 7.8 magnitude event, should be classed as an aftershock rather than a second earthquake.

A monster from the deep has washed up on a beach in Kaikoura.

Sunnier skies are expected for many next week, but Wellington has been warned of more heavy rain in the next day - another test for Wellington’s infrastructure.

The lobby group had lodged an appeal over whether the Northland Regional Council had jurisdiction under the Resource Management Act to ban the outdoor use of GMO matter.

Picture postcard fjords like those in the South Island have been found to likely play a significant part in regulation of the planet's climate, according to a newly published study by Kiwi and international researchers.

Can earthquakes ever be predicted? This question is timely after the magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck Nepal recently.

I think my brain is full. Seriously, I think all my synapses, or whatever my brain uses to store information, have been used up.

The world's oldest tools - made by ancestors of modern humans around 3.3 million years ago - have been found in Kenya.

In the first of a two-part series on New Zealand’s ‘vanishing nature’, author Marie Brown explains the country’s biodiversity crisis - and why things are getting worse.

NZ is home to tens of thousands of endemic plant, animal, insect and marine species. Jamie Morton looks at 10 new finds.

Researchers have discovered a new hot-spot for a nationally-endangered species of dolphin near the shores of Great Barrier Island.

A thousand-year-old medieval remedy for eye infections which was discovered in a manuscript in the British Library has been found to kill the superbug MRSA.

Researchers say gerbils, not rats, should be blamed for wiping out millions during the Black Plague.

The sharp decline in honeybees has been linked to changes in foraging behaviour brought on by stress, a study has found.

According to Rotorua pest control experts, it's not redbacks people should be worried about, it's the proliferation of white tail spiders that have been a problem in Rotorua this summer.

A year ago I started subscribing to Scientific American, a publication my older brother has read for years.

Rain forecast for this week is unlikely to offset a soil-parching big dry that has put much of the country at serious fire risk and begun to hurt farmers in hot-spot areas.

At the rate things are going, the Earth in the coming decades could cease to be a "safe operating space" for human beings.

International researchers are coming together to investigate a powerful force that lurks hundreds of metres deep in the Tasman Sea.

A newly discovered beetle has been named after television naturalist Sir David Attenborough.

Here are 12 tips, strategies and tactics for you to try out when you feel inclined to engage a Typical Climate Change Denier head on at your next barbecue.

You can take a role in testing the effect of warming skin on memory. Or you can involve yourself in a bid to land a spaceship on the Moon....

A world-class surfing spot and one of Northland's most picturesque strands of coastline are among more than 40 swimming beaches hit with a "caution" label for water quality.