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Dave Lowe on measuring CO₂ in New Zealand for 50 years, and how Carbon Watch NZ is a bird's eye view on our carbon balance.

Not as clean and green as you might think - and New Zealanders need to stop driving so much. That's the message from the Ministry for the Environment's latest report.

Christchurch-based expedition company Heritage Expeditions is to resume operations this summer.

A magnitude 5.7 earthquake has struck the top of the South Island.

Ten years after the Darfield earthquake, three seismologists from GeoNet reflect on a decade of big earthquakes and what we've learnt from them.

Our Changing World - In this earthquake special, three GNS Science seismologists from GeoNet recollect their experience of the Big Ones and talk about the lessons learned. Audio

More Aucklanders are believed to be working from home after the Covid-19 lockdown, leaving the city's notoriously packed motorways to flow a little freer.

The brother of a man killed in the Whakaari/White Island eruption says he hopes a new warning system will mean tours on the island can resume soon.

A new volcano warning system - which would have alerted people to the Whakaari/White Island eruption 16 hours before it happened - is ready to be put to use. Audio

A Hawke's Bay tour operator is accusing DOC of exaggerating the dangers at Cape Kidnappers, where a track has been closed since January 2019.

A team finding links between melting ice sheets in Antarctica and rising sea levels in NZ has won the 2019 Prime Minister's Science Prize.

Volcanic activity at Whakaari/White Island is slowly decreasing, prompting GNS Science to lower the alert level.

More than more than 36,000 people have reported feeling the quake, including Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during an interview. Video

Unique, cracked rocks on Whakaari/White Island allow gas to escape, easing the build-up of pressure that triggers volcanic eruptions, but can become clogged and act like valves.

Legal action is being pursued against Royal Caribbean cruise line over the Whakaari/White Island eruption as extraordinary new details of the effort to rescue survivors are revealed.

Scientists are calling on kids to collect samples of grass for 10 weeks from within their neighbourhood bubble and store them in their freezer.

Rocks from beneath the sea floor and even ancient under-sea volcanoes are providing fresh clues about what could trigger and even muffle potentially large earthquakes.

GNS Science has been trying to find five important earthquake monitoring devices missing under the ocean. A robot called Jason's been called in.

Noise complaints are dropping substantially. It's so quiet you can hear the earth move.