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The lost Haast's eagle arrived here from Australia to become a global giant, study finds.
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Be more bee-friendly in Hamilton. Made with funding from NZ on Air.
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Rich memories of Kairakau Beach have been enhanced by a new project, writes Clive Bibby.
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Students in China want to join Alexandria Villasenor's climate change movement.
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Changes are coming for the regulatory framework governing high-country leases.
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How to pick real green products.
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COMMENT: This is for those who remember that mother nature makes her own rules.
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New minerals permit applied for - iwi wanted council to back anti-mining stance.
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Century-old bird specimens may be key to saving an under-threat Hauraki Gulf species.
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Buoys dropped in the world's strongest ocean current have travelled 6500km in just a year.
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Last summer's record-hot temperatures are a warning about our future, scientist says.
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Excellent rating for water on Te Anga farms. Made with funding from NZ on Air.
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Eugenie Sage says the 30 properties still in the tenure review process will be reviewed
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We need a significant overhaul, changing the world food system on a scale not seen before
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David Trubridge announces immediately pulling six of his products from production.
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Study reveals Taranaki blew more recently than we thought - with a warning for the future.
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Endangered seagulls find a Sikh guardian in Hastings. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
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Lyttleton locals were so spooked by weird tides that tsunami scientists were alerted.
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The grass may be greener on the other side, but it's different down river in Clive.
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Vernon Tava launches first step in new party to rival the Greens.
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Explosives helping reveal how Antarctica's ice shelves might respond to a warming world.
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Scientists are urgently trying to model NZ's "warm" forests to save the birds within them.
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Comment: When you step into Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys, you step into another world.
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A new policy to give takeaway only cups to cafe customers leaving the premises got heated.
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Schools have been given $25,000 from Countdown supermarket for chicken coops and beehives.
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As the planet warms, we can turn to these species as climate change's coal mine canaries.
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Nelson has already felt 15 days of "very high" or "extreme" fire danger this year.
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Researchers call for an "urgent review" of global policy to avoid dangerous impacts.
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Vast glaciers are expected to shrink by at least a third as temperatures heat up.
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When is a robin not a black robin? When it lives in Bushy Park.
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COMMENT: We all have to play our part.
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"We're all about beautifying trees."
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Conservationists are hoping this breeding season will bring a record population boost.
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Climate scientists are predicting a bumper summer, with warmth lingering through to April.
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Despite what Donald Trump claims, the US polar vortex is climate change in action.
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Jones said organisation had used politically lurid language to tarnish NZ's reputation.
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Is New Zealand ready for the warmer, wilder future that this week has given us a taste of?
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For some sun-baked parts of the country, it's now been an official heatwave.
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If we want bird life, we need healthy bush. If we want healthy bush, possums must go.
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Drones are being used to clear rats from North Seymour Island in Ecuador's famous Galápagos National Park. Source / Island Conservation
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Will this heatwave officially be a heatwave? Jamie Morton explains.
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As much as $14 billion worth of council infrastructure is threatened by rising seas.
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A Kiwi start-up is using drones to clear rats from an island in a world-first mission.
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It might be hot – but this month's warmth still doesn't stack up to last January.
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Potential smuggling ring for little blue penguin in Hawke's Bay after two taken from nest.
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COMMENT: No animal deserves to die a painful death, even those we call pests.
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Feeling hotter at your place than MetService is reporting? You might well be right.