New Zealand has successfully taken the first step in getting the Tekapo-Aoraki/Mt Cook night sky declared a World Heritage site.

American scientists swooped over New Zealand yesterday to take measurements of greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere.

Queenslanders are demanding 4WDs be banned from shopping centres and school pick-up zones because of 'danger' to other traffic and pedestrians.

The cost to taxpayers of the Government's ETS scheme could be four times more than predicted, says Phil Goff.