Firefighters will remain on the scene of a large scrub fire in rural Canterbury which has ballooned in size and forced evacuations of homes this afternoon. In an update this evening, Fire and ...

People have been evacuated from their homes around the Island Hills where fire crews are battling an uncontained bush fire.

A claim filed in Wellington’s High Court says the Chatham Islands Council erred in granting carbon farming consents ...

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Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

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Video / NZ Herald Forecasters are warning of potential for severe thunderstorms across the central North Island later today ... if a cyclone did form, New Zealand would likely be buffered ...

On the windswept stretch of Koekohe Beach along New Zealand’s Otago coast, a group of massive, spherical rocks has been ...

Midday: Calmer conditions have assisted firefighters and downgraded the risk to West Coast communities — however, four battlegrounds remain a concern. In an update provided by Tasmania Fire Service, ...

Back then, it was a regional list, conceived as an objective way to determine which mountains in the Indonesian archipelago would probably be worth attempting to hike at weekends. We developed the ...

The Cook Islands lie halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii and are made up of 15 islands and atolls spread over 700 square ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...