Antarctic sea ice levels have been at record lows for the last three years, a global report shows. The World Meteorological ...

About 40% of adults with chronic pain have anxiety or depression, according to new overseas research covering data from 50 ...

Contractors have "successfully completed their work" to remove diesel fuel and other pollutants from the HMNZS Manawanui off ...

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New Zealand and Australia have some of the highest rates of breast cancer diagnoses in the world at around 1 […] ...

As air temperatures get hotter with climate change, urban fires will get more common, with New Zealand seeing over 40% more ...

Researchers around the world are racing to get a fuller picture of the ecological impacts of mining the deep seabeds of the Pacific Ocean for valuable minerals. What’s been done and what do we know so ...

The median age of women giving birth in Aotearoa New Zealand has reached 31.5 years in 2024, according to newly released Stats NZ data. This is the oldest age since records began in 1962. In 2024, ...

As the world’s oceans continue to warm, tuna stocks in the Pacific are expected to head east: away from local economies and into international waters. Newly announced research funding is aiming to ...