Because of the scale and complexity of the Auckland Island project, it’ll take eight years and $78m to remove all pigs, cats and mice. It’s been described as the “last piece of the puzzle” for a ...

New Zealand aims to raise $137 million to eradicate pests and restore ecosystems on three of our largest islands, as part of ...

Glaciers are melting rapidly, reducing ice and freshwater supplies, increasing sea levels, and threatening global water ...

A groundbreaking new study provides the first consistent global picture of glacier decline since 2000, revealing that ...

The melting ice from glaciers worldwide is leading to an increased loss of regional freshwater resources. And it is causing ...

Since the year 2000, glaciers have been losing 273 billion tons of ice annually, according to estimates by an international ...

Separate from the continental ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica, glaciers covered an area of 705,221 km2 and contained 121,728 billion tons of ...

Biosecurity Minister Andrew Hoggard is cautiously optimistic that a bird flu outbreak at an Otago farm has been stamped out, ...

New Zealand has so far avoided the strain of avian influenza causing mass mortalities of wild birds and mammals around the ...

A wildfire burning for weeks on Amsterdam Island, part of France's Southern and Antarctic Lands, has so far destroyed 55 ...

A major threat has been identified to an important World Heritage site, Campbell Island. The subantarctic wilderness lies 700km south of New Zealand’s South Island and is home to rare and ...

International news is so "uniformly bleak" that Sir Sam Neill feels better for not following it too closely these days. After filming two TV shows last year, the 77-year-old is enjoying a low-key ...