Nature & Environment

The health of the Waihi estuary is in decline, threatening its important role as a mahinga kai, or food-gathering site. Justine Murray meets the team trying to turn things around. Audio

The Chip Packet Project is likely to be one of the more unique charity initiatives you've heard of, but it's one that is aiming to both help our homeless population and ease the strain on our… Audio

Stuff Senior Auckland Affairs Journalist Todd Niall takes us behind the bus drivers strike in the city and talks about the complex funding formula in which the budget constraints at Auckland Council… Audio

A Pacific leader says Japan's plan to release nuclear wastewater into the Pacific Ocean is not a breach of the nuclear free Rarotonga Treaty.

The treaty, which New Zealand has signed up to, bans… Audio

NZ Foreign Affairs Minister meets with IAEA Director to discuss report. Audio

PIF expert panellist rubbishes IAEA report on nuclear wastewater. Audio

We're about halfway through the year, but data from NIWA shows some parts of Aotearoa have already had more than a year's worth of rain. It's been one of our wettest years, and according to an expert… Audio

Profits ahead of employee and tourist safety. Lawyers have opened Worksafe's case against the owners of Whakaari White Island today, saying the Buttle brothers had not done enough to inform visitors… Audio

Should we be investing in solar, wind, hydrogen or nuclear power? Carbon offsets or carbon credits? Alan Finkel was former Australian Chief Scientist from 2016 to 2020 he led the review of Australia's… Audio

You'll finally be able to book a hut or campsite on one of New Zealand's Great Walks today.

Technical difficulties have plagued the Department of Conservation's booking system and forced delays since… Audio

The International Atomic Energy Agency is set to meet with Pacific leaders in Rarotonga this week, with most Pacific nations unhappy about the impending release of treated nuclear wastewater into the… Audio

Japan has made assurances the wastewater it's dumping in the Pacific is safe – but not everyone is convinced.  Audio

The head of the UN Nuclear Agency is in New Zealand and has met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs Nanaia Mahuta, following the release of its latest report on the decommissioning of the destroyed… Video, Audio

We need less growth to put less demand on the planet's resources and slow down climate change, but we do need more art, more plays and works of fiction to bring to both sides of that argument to life… Audio