Nature & Environment

DOC has earmarked $659,000 to guide its response to climate change this financial year.

Brazil's police have made more arrests in an investigation into the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest.

Storm damage is costing the Department of Conservation millions of dollars with repair bills rising nearly fivefold over the past five financial years.

Three New Zealand start-ups have received funding from a global climate action accelerator.

Opinion - NZ's first climate adaptation plan provides a robust foundation for urgent nation-wide action and there are five key areas that need sharper focus Bruce Glavovic writes.

The freshly-crowned Arable Farmer of the Year says winning the award was a surprise, but it is a confidence-booster.

A group of experts is urging the government to create national standards for indoor air quality.

China's average temperatures have risen more quickly than the global average and will remain "significantly higher" in the future as the challenges of climate change mount, a government official said.

The world's biggest rental car company is looking to ramp up its New Zealand fleet for an in influx of overseas tourists.

There are hopes new funding will help protect some of the country's biggest and oldest kauri trees.

The company that wants to mine the south Taranaki seabed is selling out to a foreign partner, while continuing the battle to win permission for the underwater prospecting.

The opposition is chiding the government for taking this long to release a strategy to deal with the effects of climate change - but the minister in charge is not having a bar of it. Audio

It may seem like a friendly outing for an animal lover, but taking a domestic moggie on a walk about in one of our national parks could have catastrophic consequences.

Aotearoa New Zealand has just endured its wettest - and fourth warmest - July ever, NIWA says.