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When the Met Service spoke everyone in Vanuatu listened, principal science officer at the Vanuatu Meteorology and Geo-Hazard Department Glenda Pakoa says.

The Hochstetter's frog is suffering through a dry summer and could disappear over the next several decades.

Actor David Soul, best known for his role in the television series Starsky & Hutch, has died at the age of 80.

Our ideas of the colours of the planets Neptune and Uranus have been wrong, research led by UK astronomers reveals.

Opinion - Future historians may well regard 2023 as a landmark in the advent of artificial intelligence.

Most of the men mentioned in the unsealed documents have already been named in public as having met Jeffrey Epstein, and all deny knowing about his sex trafficking ring.

A 13-year-old American is the first person to ever beat Tetris, forcing the more than three-decade-old classic Nintendo video game into a "kill screen."

The summer science fun continues with an episode from RNZ podcast Voices. Meet Gaia Dell'Arriccia, a scientist originally from the south of France who studies the seabirds that live around Auckland's…

Kākā numbers are skyrocketing in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington thanks to conservation efforts. The summer science series continues with a walk through Zealandia to find out why you shouldn't feed…

Danes were given a surprise on New Year's Eve as Queen Margrethe II announced her abdication. But what do we know about Denmark's soon-to-be king?

No, this isn't another 'new year, new you' story. Niki Bezzant cuts through the wellness waffle and uncovers five things we can all do to improve our health in 2024.

2023 might already feel like a distant memory, but RNZ's staff and contributers have plenty of suggestions for the best movies and music you might have missed, and the year's biggest news stories.

Resolutions and rituals to secure a prosperous new year have a history stretching back at least 4000 years.

Two scientists are camped out on a remote island far south of New Zealand on the hunt for what's killing off the native albatrosses that breed there.

Extreme heat is the nation's deadliest natural hazard, but its impacts aren't being felt equally.

"We are basically almost landing on a star," says one of the mission's scientists. "This is equivalent to the Moon landing of 1969."

Screen and stage fixture Ian Mune is one of five new knights and dames appointed.

El Nino is expected to bring out more sharks, and a scientist says there are steps we can take to ensure we do not encourage sharks to hang about near people.

A teenage boy has been killed in a shark attack at a popular tourism and surfing spot on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula.