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Genetic modification is back on the political agenda in Aotearoa New Zealand. The issue may not be as hotly contentious ...

Could we be seeing the end of some of the great animal migrations? Fishing, fences and development are fast-tracking extinctions. ...

An overhaul of the conservation laws of Aotearoa could allow Māori to resume traditional harvesting practices of some native species. ...

This article has been republished from The Conversation under Creative Commons licence CC BY-ND 4.0 and is written by Dr ...

A more precise timeline now shows Aotearoa was first settled in the North Island before the settlers expanded south and ...

Plastic and microplastic pollution of oceans is a wicked problem. Using bioinformatics and statistical analysis, scientist Victor Gambarini looked to ...

Rocks act as geological archives and new techniques are helping scientists capture data about past events.

One of New Zealand’s iconic moa species was almost wiped out during the last ice age according to recently published ...

This article, written by Md Arif Hasan and Associate Professor Ralph Brougham Chapman from Environmental Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, ...

Plastics have got themselves a bad name, mainly for two reasons: most are made from petroleum and they end up ...

This article by Dr Nic Rawlence was originally published under the title Proposal to mine fossil-rich site in New Zealand ...

Scientists Tim Curran (Lincoln University), Sarah Wyse (University of Auckland) and George Perry (University of Auckland) assessed the flammability of ...

An interdisciplinary team of conservation biologist Priscilla Wehi, mātauranga Māori and linguistics expert Tom Roa, computational biologist Murray Cox and ...

Exciting news for all fans of lizards (mokomoko) a new species has just been rediscovered.

In late January 2019, parts of the United States shivered when the polar vortex (a band of strong winds that ...

In 2018, a map named after an oceanographer went viral.

Could 2023 mark a significant decline for Antarctic sea ice? Find out more about the trends of changes in sea ...

In January 2022 the world was shocked to hear of a sudden huge volcanic eruption close to Tonga, causing a ...

Astronomer, Dr Sara Webb is fascinated about viewing distant galaxies. She is a galaxy hunter and explores the universe through ...

Takahē are one of Aotearoa New Zealand’s conservation success stories. Now new research has shed light on their evolutionary history. ...

The changing character of our increasingly scientific and technologically dependent society requires a science curriculum to match – one that ...

In this activity, students are introduced to a shared reading process called newsboard where they are prompted to think scientifically ...

Climate change is an incredibly complex wicked problem that links environmental issues with human wellbeing, the economy, and local and ...