Vote for your favourite fungus, or maybe vote for a fungus that is threatened, or culturally important, or edible, or (on the negative side) one that’s causing an important disease.

We're all familiar with our strict boarder biosecurity rules, so it might be surprising that we can buy invasive species at our local garden centre.

Lockdown was a great time to be a fish as humans stopped drowning out their environments with shipping and recreational boating. It’s time to consider quiet zones in the Hauraki Gulf.

Every year, several previously harmless plant species go rogue, escaping from homes and gardens and multiplying unstoppably – but we could stop them before they destroy local ecosystems.

They’re expensive and time-consuming, sources of carbon emissions, and make up a high proportion of NZ cities. What else could we do with that green space?

“For all intents and purposes, Forest & Bird waged a media and political war on Ngāi Tahu and the Crown during negotiations.” — Martin Fisher.

The environment department will be abolished and folded into a new super-ministry for cities, environment, regions and transport.

Take the personality quiz to match with one of NZ’s larger-than-life little creatures, then cast your vote.

New Zealand’s biodiversity is under immense pressure, but we can give native species a boost this summer by making some simple choices.

Medium-density housing has limited green spaces, but even small planted patches can provide enough food and habitat to enhance urban biodiversity.

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A University of Otago researcher says proposed protections for endangered hoiho will just slow their decline.

In the second of a series on southern pest problems, Newsroom looks at the deer’s devastating impact on agriculture and the already-struggling conservation estate. Jill Herron reports.

The disaster should raise questions about how we fund, manage and protect these vulnerable habitats when climate change is outpacing conservation efforts.

In the first of a series on the south’s pest issues, Newsroom looks at feral pigs, which are threatening national parks and wreaking havoc on farms and public conservation land.

'Between the ERA and the Employment Court, my husband and I have spent over $632,000.'

Comment: The trees lining our streets and parks are quietly delivering a host of benefits – from cooling and cleaning the air to improving our health and wellbeing.

Comment: The trees lining our streets and parks are quietly delivering a host of benefits – from cooling and cleaning the air to improving our health and wellbeing.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in the process of preparing its Seventh Assessment report (AR7). The IPCC Working Groups are seeking highly motivated early-career researchers f...