Dairy farmers won't have to pay for their climate pollution yet, the Govt says.

Opinion: The best satire is done so cleverly that its targets don't recognise it at all.

Illegal dumping has been described as "significant" after big council clean-up.

Water and pollution are shaping up to be a key issue come election time.

Labour's new freshwater policy would make it tougher for farms to intensify operations.

Could shared taxis take over the Auckland CBD at the expense of private cars?

Will Donald Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement be felt here?

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

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

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

Another major stocktake has painted a grim picture of our freshwater environment.

A waxworm is capable of eating through the material at "uniquely high speeds".

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.

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.

A researcher says it's embarrassing our country hasn't yet made the move.

COMMENT: New Zealand clean and green? Try mean and short-sighted.

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.