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'Bureaucratic lunacy': Boy banned from bus, told to use $2300-a-year taxi

Parents say a taxi will cost taxpayers far more than letting their son on a school bus.

Another 75,000 tonnes of toxic waste stored near Tiwai Point

The Bluff aluminium smelter says it does not yet know what to do with the material.

Silver Fern Farms fined $337k over potentially lethal ammonia leak

Ammonia leak potentially lethal to residents, staff and emergency services.

Can NZ reduce car emissions with a smokefree-styled campaign?

NZ has the highest per capita car ownership in the OECD. How can we reduce it?

Water contamination scare in Otago: Blood tests to look for elevated lead levels

One test in December that found lead levels were more than 40 times the maximum.

Fonterra discharging nitrogen-heavy water on to 'ghost farms'

Cows have been cleared from 16 Fonterra farms to dispose of polluted wastewater.

Local Focus: The Dark Sky Project of Maraekākaho

From Graham Palmer's back garden he can see galaxies. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Tap water warning for two Dunedin towns

Residents in Karitane and Waikouaiti must stop using tap water for drinking or cooking.

Natural fibres more prevalent in ocean than plastic - study

The large majority of microfibres polluting our oceans are not plastic but natural fibres.

Lockdown reveals smoggy stamp of Auckland's trucks and buses

Auckland's first lockdown gave scientists a golden opportunity to study traffic pollution.

Labour promising to phase out straws, fruit stickers and other single-use plastics by 2025

Labour would say goodbye to plastic straws and fruit stickers.

Local Focus: Should farmers avoid paying for their pollution? Whanganui candidates argue it out

Candidates on farming and greenhouse gases. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

NZ's annual plastic pollution reaach 9000 tonnes by 2030 - study

NZ could send about 9000 tonnes of plastic into the environment by 2030, analysis shows.

Pollution progress: Napier, Hastings air quality finally meeting national standards

Both Napier and Hastings met their national air quality targets for the year.

Freshwater policies attacked

The new laws fail to acknowledge the momentum farmers already have to address freshwater.

Trump administration finalises coal plant pollution rollback

Former EPA officials warned the move will harm public health.