Nature & Environment

Air pollution is the invisible killer behind one in every 10 deaths in New Zealand. There's no safe level of it, but it's an easy issue to ignore. 

American writer Kim Stanley Robinson spends a lot of time imagining the future, and predicts the next few decades will look messy, but it's still worth trying to reign in climate change. Audio

The world is breaching a key warming threshold at a rate that has scientists concerned, a BBC analysis has found.

The United Nations has announced Christchurch will host an international climate conference in 2025.

A report presented to the council lays bare a stark warning that plant and animal control gains could be lost.

Thousands of litres of diesel has leaked from a boat which ran aground on Banks Peninsula two weeks ago, says Canterbury Regional Council.

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

By Aaron Smale: On the slow destruction and devastating impact of the pine industry on Tairāwhiti.

Plants have been donated to hundreds of Hawke's Bay gardeners whose properties were inundated during Cyclone Gabrielle.

Report sets out a raft of recommendations but warns the Crown against 'cherry-picking' select findings.

A group of five people who caught 348 fish in one day in the Hauraki Gulf have been fined $10,500.

This year is on track to be the warmest on record after September temperatures alarm scientists.