Environment

The council's chief executive is standing up to those trying to stop risk assessments from being written into regional housing plans. Audio

A Gisborne environmentalist who has spent 20 years trying to improve the state of a local river says her efforts have been decimated by the impact of Cyclone Gabrielle.

Analysis - Recent extreme weather events have provided a foretaste of how supercharged storms might threaten our future, Timothy Welch writes.

Dog owners are being urged to keep their pets under control after two hoiho were killed in Otago.

The possibility of a proposed government housing development flooding in heavy rain dominates discussions at a public meeting.

Two of Aotearoa's largest centres have lost up to a third of their green space in recent decades, according to the Environment Commissioner.

As well as being an important habitat for marsh birds and other wildlife, improving water quality and flood resilience, salt marshes may also have implications for combating climate change.

The Noises are a conservation success story in the Hauraki Gulf. Claire Concannon joins a team surveying the wētāpunga, seabirds, and other flora and fauna that now thrive on these predator-free…

Whangārei Harbour - and others along Northland's east coast - are at risk from a new superspreader invasive pest seaweed devastating parts of Great Barrier Island, a Northland ocean ecologist...

Climate scientists and other notables also want the the general election to be a "climate election", noting it would be a mistake to emerge from the cyclone clinging to the past.

A group of local and international scientists say climate change played a role in the devastating rainfall from Cyclone Gabrielle that claimed lives and wrought massive destruction.

Taranaki Regional Council and iwi are struggling to implement freshwater reforms and fear the pressure may create tension between them.

A month on from Cyclone Gabrielle making landfall and residents of a coastal Auckland settlement are trying to get back to normal, despite being surrounded by devastation.

The government looks set to raid the fund it set up to pay for the climate emergency to bankroll its "reprioritisation".

Engineered stone is a kitchen and bathroom designer's dream - but it can come with a heavy cost for people working with it.