Scientists say Greenland just opened up a major new "floodgate" of ice into the ocean.

Sarah Thomson wasn't happy with the targets the Government has set to combating climate change - so now she's taking it to court.

The pioneer of the world's first lab-grown burger expects cultured meat to eventually replace traditionally-farmed beef.

Firstly, can you describe your research programme on the ice, how this project has been developed, and how many scientists are involved?

New interactive maps have shown how projected sea-level rise under different climate change would transform our coastlines and inundate low-lying areas.

A mission to Ceres, a dwarf planet 257 million miles from the Sun and the size of Texas, may cost about $27 billion.

Dr Craig Stevens is part of a team camping at McMurdo Sound to investigate why Antarctic sea ice is not shrinking at the same rate as Arctic sea ice.

The rugby party continues as we welcome home the All Blacks with their newly- engraved Webb Ellis cup.

The potential hand of climate change in one of the worst storms ever to hit Northland has been revealed in a new study.

Researchers are attempting to go inside the minds of infants to get a baby's-eye-view of the first years of life.

When it comes to birds, the ladies are just as capable of glamming up their style as the blokes are - just only when they need to.

Ensuring our water is clean enough to swim in is a major aspiration of a just-launched charitable foundation to help solve the country's biggest environmental challenges.

A bit of Kiwi ingenuity and an epic road trip will ultimately help a team of scientists understand how Antarctica's vast Ross Ice Shelf might respond to future warming.

Scientists have welcomed news the Environmental Protection Authority is to help clear up the definition of what is and what isn't a genetically modified organism.

The scientist who drove the establishment of New Zealand's first marine reserve has died.

Clergymen attempting to prove claims that a skull found in a Worcestershire church vault is that of William Shakespeare have been thwarted by a senior church lawyer who has barred them from carrying....

In an experiment co-funded by the Korean and New Zealand Governments robots have been given to four elderly Gore patients.

One of my favourite events of the year took place this week and I was lucky enough to be involved again for the fourth year running.

A New Zealand bid to establish the world's largest marine reserve in Antarctica is a step closer after China agreed to support the project.

What began as a hobby with dad has developed into an award-winning talent for a Christchurch student.

With two days to go, Massey University answers the hot questions on performance, featuring specialist opinion from across the university

Family members could be kept alive forever virtually so living relatives could interact with their avatars, an academic has suggested.

The same team of scientists that helped rescue a multi-billion dollar industry from the Psa-V virus is now eyeing another huge challenge.

It's understood that the biggest losses would be in the study areas of greenhouse gases and field work.

New findings pave the way for the first medicine to ease the difficulty many autistic children have in interacting.

The critically-endangered Maui dolphin has topped a list of New Zealand's 10 "rarest of the rare" endangered species.

The final sunset marks the coming of summer to the frozen continent, but it will still be far from summer as we know it.

How did thousands of possum tails end up littering State Highway 1?

The Herald will be travelling to Antarctica this summer to meet Kiwi scientists investigating what the frozen continent has meant for our past and what it might mean for our future.