There are signs that pledges to give up flying are gaining traction.

COMMENT: It's time to make polluting fashion go out of trend.

Explanation of slow slip earthquakes associated with New Zealand's Hikurangi Subduction Zone. / GNS Science

EDITORIAL: Now in 2019 the New Deal programme is being invoked once again.

Just 250 of this rare shore bird endemic to New Zealand still remain.

Lower Hutt geohazards centre shaking up the way we monitor earthquakes.

New centre already helping us better monitor earthquakes - and could save lives.

COMMENT: No animal deserves to die a painful death, even those we call pests.

Astronomer has weighed in on the debate over whether we are alone in the universe.

Focus beyond Earth is growing, writes Keith Gottschalk.

A photo lends a one-of-a-kind image inspiration to care for our planet.

"You are not mature enough to tell it like it is."

Gruelling negotiations in Poland have added legal flesh to bones of 2015 Paris agreement.

Alaskan scientists describe never-before-seen melting in the Arctic and Antarctica.

We know less about what's beneath Antarctic ice shelves than we do about Mars' surface.

Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys are among the most inhospitable places on Earth.

We've only scratched at the surface in past 50 years.

2.5m-long shark found at Devonport two days after 3m shark washed up at Stanley Bay.

Astronomers discovered evidence of an alien world unlike anything in our own solar system.

The world's ice sheets could still collapse with less than 2C of warming, review finds.

The maunga authority wants the more restrictive viewshaft rules to take priority.

Geological discovery in rural Karaka a setback for owners' plan to build his dream home.

The kiwi's long-lost close cousin loved the night-life as much as our national icon does.

University of Otago scientist Dr Helen Taylor has received the country’s top honour for science communication. / Supplied

Insights into extinct bird raises questions over how climate change affects today's hoiho.

They might look like overstuffed teddybears, but there's nothing cuddly about them.

UQ Global Change Institute Director Professor Ove Hoegh-Guldberg explains significance of new research that has found evidence to suggest the 2016 coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef also affected deep reefs. Credit: UQ Global Change Institute

South Islanders get their best glimpse of an aurora since 2015.

Record heat is raising ocean temperatures to new levels and experts are concerned.