Hollywood director James Cameron is among those lamenting the loss of a robotic research submarine which imploded in the Kermadec Trench.

MetService is pushing further into global markets with a business aimed at more accurate forecasting for the shipping and oil and gas industries around the world.

One of the most "disastrous breeding seasons" in recent years has hit endangered yellow-eyed penguin colonies along Otago's coast.

New Zealand's endangered yellow-eyed penguin have been found to follow the line of swooping seabirds - literally - when it comes to reaping the food stirred up by trawlers.

'Wow, this guy's a whopper,' said experts of a 1.5m monster jellyfish that washed up on a Hobart beach last month. So what does its sting feel like?

It all began in December 2012, when Jose Salvador Alvarenga, an El Salvadorian fisherman, boarded his 7m fibreglass fishing boat in the village of Costa Azul on the coast of the Mexican state of Chiapas.

Sections of the Northwestern cycleway will most likely be underwater and low-lying sections of Auckland's motorway network are at risk of flooding during high king tides forecast for later this week.

Asteroids like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs on Earth could have shot life to Mars or the moons of Jupiter and Saturn, US scientists have said.

Sam Judd writes that perhaps the biggest environmental problem we currently face is the contamination of our waterways by nutrients.

The rough seas of the southern Pacific Ocean are set to be the focus of resource consent debate as a mining company's bid to dredge the sea floor comes up against the fishing industry and environmentalists.

One hundred grey shark fins, and one orange fin, are floating in Wellington harbour today to mark the final day of shark awareness week.

Environmental columnist Sam Judd takes a look at the disastrous consequences of the Japan earthquake on our food chain.

Lynn Dao has allowed us to watch her fantastic video. Towards the end of her two week trip in New Zealand, she went with Dolphin Encounter in Kaikora to hop in the ocean and swim with a bunch of dolphins. She thought it was going to be amazing, but nothing prepared her for the surreal experience of swimming with a pod of 500 dusky dolphins!

Environmental columnist Sam Judd checks out the proposed controversial changes to areas for commercial harvesting for paua.

The 2012-13 State Ocean Swim Series, which offered the richest swimming prize in New Zealand history, came to a dramatic finish last weekend with Aussies Ky Hurst and Melissa Gorman sweeping the titles.

New Zealand's best open water swimmers are philosophical after conceding the recent State New Zealand Ocean Swim series to Australians, but still have much to look forward to in 2013.

It's reaching the business end of the State Ocean Swim Series.

The carbon fibre Solar Impulse plane has the wingspan of a 747 but only weighs as much a Honda Prius.

Could it be that the humble sea urchin has come to the rescue? Sam Judd finds that the latest technological breakthrough for waging war on carbon emissions has the spiny sea creatures to thank.

Up to 900 dolphins have been killed by villagers in the Solomon Islands, who claim it was an act of retaliation for not being paid money they were promised.

A bid that would have safe-guarded the Ross Sea's pristine eco-system with the world's largest marine protected area has failed.