Today marks D-Day for divers around the country who will recover as much rubbish as they can from the ocean this month as part of the Dive Against Debris effort.

Raw sewage on central Auckland beaches has outraged residents who walk and swim there.

Publicly-owned Waterfront Auckland has won $10m from oil giant Mobil to pay for a cleanup of part of the Wynyard Quarter.

An Auckland school has had to warn its students about rodents in the area after a teenager was bitten when she picked up a dying rat.

I say good riddance to this filthy and dangerous industry, writes Sam Judd. Although I do feel for the workers who will lose out on this situation.

We owe it to our kids to look after this great country and not let them inherit a bunch of overflowing, privately-owned landfills, writes Sam Judd.

Cow effluent charges against two Marlborough farmers have been proven.

Auckland's Harbour Bridge set for radical change as cycling and walking attachment gets resource consent.

Earth has entered its sixth mass extinction with animals dying out at 100 times the normal rate, scientists have warned.

Hayden Smith and Ben Harris have been removing rubbish from the Waitemata Harbour for over 12 years, writes Sam Judd. Rain or shine, they are out there.

Two Auckland men met about two years ago and in that short time they have discovered they have the same passion - cleaning up waterways.

Car batteries, coffee cups and condoms - welcome to the underwater junkyard that lies just off our city beaches.

How do we stop plastic trash entering the Hauraki Gulf? Any beach walk shows it's a pressing problem, and one Aucklanders must solve.

A reader writes: Is it safe to eat the oysters growing in clumps in the Manukau Harbour?

Apple and the World Wildlife Fund will work together to manage as many as 1 million acres of forests across China.

If plastic trash diminishes your enjoyment of Auckland's beautiful marine environment, perhaps you could share your ideas on how to address the problem.

"This is one of New Zealand's biggest ports - if we can't contain this, how are we going to deal with off-shore drilling? I don't think we can really take the risk."

As the people of Tauranga are once again having to deal with an oil spill in their harbour, we can't help but look back at the threat sunken ships pose to the environment, writes Sam Judd.

A publicly-owned entity must pay Mobil almost $1m in courts costs for its failed attempt to get the oil company to pay for the clean-up of Auckland's tank farm.

Energy Minister Simon Bridges agrees with some of the messages of protestors outside a petroleum summit being held in Auckland today.

Oil and gas sector leaders meet in Auckland today as the industry confronts depressed global prices and conference delegates face protests from activists.

The income earned by extracting phosphate would be $9.7 million per sq km, compared with $9000 per sq km annually from bottom trawling.

New Zealand's monitoring of air pollution is lagging behind the rest of the developed world and needs to start picking up the tiniest, most harmful particles, Government's environmental watchdog....

A massive pipi bed in Whangarei harbour is dying and there are fears the change could destabilise the harbour - and Marsden Point itself, Radio NZ reports.

A group of young adventurers are taking to the water in some unusual kayaks in a bid to battle plastic pollution.