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The purpose of Labour's recently announced political integrity package is not to respond to corruption scandals (although they may exist). It is to strengthen public confidence in democratic instituti...

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A decade ago, Karen Lloyd discovered single-celled microbes living beneath the seafloor. Now she studies how they can survive in Earth’s crust, possibly for hundreds or thousands of years, and push li...

Daily-updated global temperature tracker: ERA5 daily data, multi-model ENSO forecasts, annual projections, and climate models vs. observations.

Big Oil’s Climate Deception Explained in 101 Documents

International relations experts are warning a case claiming New Zealand is not meeting EU trade agreement climate commitments could seriously impact the country's reputation.

A mysterious Antarctic region that holds enough ice to lift sea levels by several metres needs to be studied urgently, researchers say.

A Dutch environmental group claims New Zealand has broken its climate change promises in the free trade agreement with the EU and is lodging the first complaint of its kind through the European Commis...

New Zealand First deputy leader Shane Jones is backing the party's controversial candidate selection for the New Plymouth electorate.

National is defending the use of footage showing violent crime under its own government in attack ads against Labour.

An influential regenerative grazing movement continues to grow. But here's why the science doesn't back up the purported climate benefits.

In 2024, the global CO2 growth rate (CGR) reached an unprecedented 3.73 ± 0.09 ppm year-1, marking a record high since observations began in 1959. However, the underlying causes of this unprecedented...

Ahead of the 2026 General Election, scheduled for Saturday 7 November, the Science Media Centre asked political parties about their science policies. Responses to all 12 questions on science policy an...

Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

The number of young people enrolled to vote has increased over the past month, but almost 188,000 18- to 24-year-olds remain unenrolled ahead of this year's general election.