Is the attention New Zealand is getting from foreign oil prospectors accelerating?

Oil giant ExxonMobil says new rules to curb drilling should be held off until the lessons from the Gulf of Mexico disaster are fully understood.

NZ will join Australia in taking legal action over Japan's whaling programme if last minute diplomatic solutions are not found.

When it comes to fish, New Zealand is often held up as an exemplar of what happens when you get things right.

Obama has pledged to end the "cosy relationship" between the oil industry and federal regulators.

Top executives from BP and two other firms involved in the rig that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico came under fire at a US Senate hearing.

Emergency crews are desperately trying to put together a new plan to stem the flow of oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico

The most detailed account yet of what led to the deadly explosion on a BP oil rig that has left the US' coast exposed to millions of litres of leaking oil.

The US Coast Guard has successfully completed a controlled burn of a portion of the oil slick off the Gulf Coast.

Fisherman and seafaring residents of the Louisiana shoreline despair as a vast oil slick approaches.

Questions are sure to be raised about a self-policing system that trusted a commercial oil operator to take care of its own mishap.

Everyone likes a bit of pampering now and again - and sharks and manta rays are no exception.

Hawkes Bay coastal residents are allowed to return home after high waves prompted evacuations.