NZ Govt says US withdrawal from Paris climate accord "really disappointing".

Black sludge poured from a drain in to the water at Browns Bay.

Water quality in cities was twice as bad as on farmland, Nick Smith said today.

Greens say the Budget's environment and conservation funding is far below what's needed.

Any new wood burners must meet national standards from next Thursday.

Do we need a Hippocratic Oath to better protect our oceans? Two experts explain.

Startling evidence shows that yellow-eyed penguins face extinction from mainland NZ.

This is not a joke - Kiwi air is being sold overseas for $35 a pop.

Property listings will include traffic light-style pollution warnings in the near future

Planting more native forest could be a cash-saver for big-emitting companies, report says.

Five findings from a new independent stocktake of the state of our lakes and rivers.

New Zealand was a decade behind countries like the UK.

COMMENT: I've always suspected NZ's scarcity of environmental enforcement was willful.

Ngati Kahungunu sail to protest the Amazon Warrior. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Jennifer Dann puts 12 questions to NIWA air quality scientist Elizabeth Somervell.

Micrometre-sized plastics are wreaking havoc in our oceans, a scientist says.

NZ's economic growth is "approaching its environmental limits", a once-a-decade environmental report card says.

A new smartphone app allows users to check Auckland's air quality at any given time.

Houses dot an empty landscape, standing as reminders of a village that existed before the Japan earthquake.

Watercare contractors have cleared a blockage in a sewagesewerage pipe which caused an overflow into the Wairau Stream at Milford

Britons are dying because of the Volkswagen emission scandal with dozens killed from fumes travelling across the North Sea from Germany

COMMENT: Moral implications seem a bridge too far in decisions on management of key resource, opines Rachel Stewart.

In "clean, green New Zealand" just 72 per cent of rivers, streams and lakes are considered safe for swimming and it will remain that way for a while.

COMMENT: The Environment Minister's promise to make 90 per cent of rivers swimmable by 2040 is a cynical sleight of hand, writes Gen Toop from Greenpeace.

Police are moving in on the Dakota Access pipeline protestors.

An east Auckland creek is full of dead fish and eels after a sewage leak caused by someone flushing wet wipes down the toilet.

The dramatic, kilometres-deep canyons that lie hidden beneath our waves need protection from human pollution and damage, scientists say.

COMMENT: Aucklanders are a hypocritical bunch. We pollute our precious inner harbour beaches, we have to drive for hours seeking somewhere to relax.

The state of our rivers and lakes has predictably come under intensified focus this summer, as Kiwis head to their favourite watering holes.

Nails, staples and glass are being left on the beach from fires lit from pellets. Photo/George Novak 220117gn05bop.JPG After finding