One of the world's biggest environment groups is taking a keen interest in New Zealand.

Incorporating plantain into grazed land found to reduce release of greenhouse gasses.

After our La Nina-fired summer, there's a chance spring could bring a meddling El Nino.

Ancient kauri trees are helping us understand how forests might fare in future droughts.

Cate Macinnis-Ng is climbing huge kauri trees in the name of science, studying the impact of droughts caused by climate change on this giant iconic species. / Supplied by Aotearoa Science Agency

Warmer weather could make us prone to more foreign, disease-carrying mosquitos.

Prime Minister Jacinda Adern to honour outstanding Pacific youth

The chick attracted attention for its speedy trek up the coast of the South Island.

Beware your bath time companion. Research finds it's likely riddled with bacteria.

Maori, Pacific Island babies with a rare heart defect are less likely to survive.

A Kiwi scientist's odd sperm-racing campaign could help save NZ's threatened hihi.

Does looking at this burger make you hungry?

COMMENT: Our faces change in colour depending on how we are feeling.

After genetic analysis of the little mummy scientists have concluded its place of origin.

Dr Fiona Cross went from terrified arachnophobe to committed arachnologist.

A Dutch expert in sea-level-rise mitigation shares some lessons for flood-prone Aotearoa.

Crucial clues about the contamination of our coasts may be hiding in an unlikely place.

One of the world's most complex pest-eradication projects makes the Antipodes mice-free.

Scientists film spectacular underwater action of the huge mammals beneath the sea ice.

White Island's crater lake has reappeared, as quakes detected at the island and Ruapehu.

NZ-led research leads world a step closer to combating emissions from sheep and cattle.

A series of volcanic earthquakes is stirring beneath Mt Ruapehu.

Sustainable and profitable farming were showcased at gala awards evening.

Research submitted two weeks before he died revealed how we can detect other universes.

Something odd is happening beneath South Atlantic. It's so bad, it's killing satellites.

Six easy tricks to make a quick recovery after a terrible night's sleep.

The five mummified bodies found in Peru were originally thought to be evidence of aliens.

Before Scientology's first lady disappeared, a young woman died in odd circumstances.

Eat sugar and fat, get fat? There's much more to obesity than that, writes Jamie Morton.

Nasa has found that life away from planet Earth has exacted a surprising toll.