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.

The images show 15 school lunches delivered to a school in August 2026. Your task is to pick the name that was assigned to each one.

Researchers should move from characterising factors impacting scientific evidence use to identifying and testing interventions to facilitate its use by conservation decision makers. Since these facto....

It doesn't have sharp teeth or claws, but the mosquito kills more people than any other animal on earth. As the climate warms, mosquito season is lasting longer, giving them more time to spread danger...

'This is the pine age and...production of pine timber will go on increasing.'

We know what we need to do: stop climate change as quickly as possible. Now, with the Drawdown Explorer, we know how to do it.

New Zealand's first independent way to report sexual harm. When your report connects with others, take legal action together. Safe, private and free.

Buy Dirty Work by Nicky Hager from your local bookstore. Twelve years after they were exposed and discredited in the book Dirty Politics, some of ...

Before vast numbers were felled to build the villas of Ponsonby and Grey Lynn for early European settlers, Auckland's Waitakere Ranges were covered in ancient kauri forests.

Department: Biology and Biochemistry Salary: Commensurate with experience Description: The Department of Biology and Biochemistry at the University of Houston seeks to hire an evolutionary biolog...

Drew Mackenzie cuts a small figure nestled among the roots of a giant kahikatea growing in remnant ancient forest on the outskirts of Ōtaki.

David Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

About a year ago I was invited to give a lecture designed to spark critical thinking in graduate students when considering using generative AI and other tools that had started applying the “a…

"A very dangerous situation" is how one of the world's top climate scientists is describing the next six months ahead, following confronting projections about what this year's super-strength El Niño i...

David Farrier's Webworm looks at Alison Mau and Zoë Lawton's Tika: a new way to report sexual harm in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

A network of climate assessments plays a critical role in synthesizing the state of science to support evidence-based decision-making To support future U.S. and sub-national climate assessments, ...

New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms

Job Opening: Data Scientist (Bioinformatics), IS- 1560- 11 at Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

National plans to divert $86m from the International Visitor Levy to local councils, replacing a bed tax to help fund tourism infrastructure.

Stories of NZ science and nature from out in the field and inside the labs.

Comment: Cleaning up nitrogen pollution costs 10 times more than buying the fertiliser in the first place, freshwater ecologist Dr Simon Stewart argues.

“People like David Seymour like to frame what we’re doing as selecting medical students based on race. No, that’s actually the issue we’re trying to correct — historically our admissions processes hav...

The government has kept a controversial clause in its Conservation Amendment Bill, which critics say undermines the purpose of conservation law.

Help bring together the people, priorities, knowledge, and resources needed to achieve integrated catchment outcomes across the Kāpiti region.

Changes to council rating policies could leave Carterton with permanent unmanaged pine forests, a Wellington agricultural investment bank says.

Global warming beyond 1.5°C is now inevitable and the world must limit the 'overshoot' as much as possibly before reversing it, a new report says.

Kanapu Exchange has been designed to connect emerging Māori researchers and graduates with industry specialists and organisations as well as offering hands-on experiences that shape our research, scie...

Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 26 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-026-00193-7Understanding climate-change scenarios is essential for researchers seeking to assess the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. In this Perspective, Schoeman et al. examine climate-change scenarios, their use for biodiversity research, and their relevance to policy, as well as providing recommendations for how biodiversity researchers can make the best use of future climate projections.

Nepal is owed something more substantial than sympathy and more useful than a loan charging interest on damage it did not cause. Monitoring of unstable ice and glacial lakes concerns the whole basin a...

The country is seeking urgent help from a special U.N. climate fund, but the program lacks money because the United States and others have been reluctant to contribute.

An estimated $1.44 million could be plunged into a deep water manu pool for Ōtaki, if councillors approve it on Thursday.

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In the 21st-century, the emergence of a new—more severe wildfire climate will occur We discover that “very-extreme” wildfire weather conditions are possible in regions formerly unaffected While ...

Colossal Biosciences calls itself an advanced genetics company that's developing the science that will save us all.