Environment

Late last year, a massive ocean swell damaged coastlines and property thousands of kilometres away..

It might be slow-moving, but the orange roughy holds top spot in the Fish of the Year - for now.

One Restore Passenger Rail protester has been found not guilty of endangering transport during protests against climate change, but there is still no verdict on the other three accused.

On Auckland's North Shore, a public golf course is fighting council plans to use their course as a floodwater catchment.

A decision to continue allowing vehicles on beaches in the Catlins will be revisited after an endangered sea lion was harassed by motorists.

Campaigners have accused the European Commission President, whose own pony was killed by a wolf in 2022, of personal motivations for targeting wolves.

After two days of deliberations, a jury has retired for the weekend without reaching a verdict in the trial of Restore Passenger Rail protesters.

An unlikely coalition of more than 80 companies, councils and not-for-profit organisations is urging the government to introduce a long awaited recycling scheme.

A petition of 14,000 signatures in opposition to sand mining at Te Ākau Bream Bay has been handed to Greens MP Hūhana Lyndon.

A methane-hunting satellite - which New Zealand taxpayers pitched in $29m for - is being handed back to its makers so they can fix unspecified "challenges."

When last measured, the iceberg was more than twice the size of London.

A 14,000-signature petition against a proposed fast-tracked sand mining operation off Northland's Bream Bay is due to be handed over at Parliament on Wednesday. Audio

A jury has heard that New Zealand's major cities could be underwater by the end of this century during the trial of climate activists who hung banners over Wellington's State Highways.