The Hauraki Gulf Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Bill is due for its third reading in Parliament this week. The Bill extends ...

Tens of thousands of rural New Zealanders could be drinking water with harmful nitrate levels, researchers say. The ...

Government changes to the earthquake-prone building system will remove nearly 3000 buildings from the classification.

We're edging closer to exceeding 1.5°C of warming globally, and scientists will soon gather to understand the implications of ...

US doctors will soon be advised not to prescribe the pain reliever paracetamol to pregnant women, US President Donald Trump ...

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is meeting to review childhood vaccine recommendations in the US. The ...

The Government will be changing aspects to New Zealand’s higher education system, informed by a recently released report by the University Advisory Group. Changes include a new strategy for all of New ...

An open letter signed by more than twenty AI experts calls on the government to better regulate the new technology, pointing to low trust and possible harms. The Science Media Centre asked the authors ...

An estimated magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s eastern coast has resulted in tsunami warnings across much of the Pacific. New Zealand’s coasts may experience “strong and unusual currents and ...

An overseas company has announced plans to “bring back” the South Island giant moa. Colossal Biosciences, working with Ngāi Tahu Research Centre and Canterbury Museum, says it expects to “resurrect” ...

Warmer, saltier water from deep in the Southern Ocean has started rising to the surface, bringing up more carbon dioxide, a recent study shows. Fresher, cooler surface waters had helped sea ice expand ...