The latest New Zealand Environmental Protection Authority (NZEPA) Board are tasked with the oversight of a regulatory institution that has been backsliding for decades.
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The Government has announced that during the next three months it will take Cabinet decisions on new regulations to remove the ban on genetic engineering...
The decision has caused outrage among animal rights campaigners.
Residents of Limburg-an-der-Lahn have voted to wipe out every single pigeon in the German town, claiming...
Thousands of protesters gathered in downtown Auckland, with similar demonstrations taking place across Nelson, Whakatāne, Christchurch, and Tākaka, to oppose the coalition Government’s Fast-Track...
An Auckland-based international rugby player and social media content creator, Matt Jurlina, who faced penalties after posting a video of himself speeding a powerboat...
Scientists hope the findings can help identify protective mutations and increase the odds for humans to survive the disease.
Wolves in the irradiated Chernobyl Exclusion...
A hunter-led conservation project has removed hundreds of deer from a remote part of the Kaimanawa Forest Park, helping improve the forest’s health, Hunting...
Parliament has passed legislation repealing the Natural and Built Environment Act and the Spatial Planning Act as part of the Government’s 100-day plan, RMA...
Scientists have found that toxins produced by microscopic algae killed 250 elephants in Africa.
Around 250 African elephants were killed by neurotoxins produced by microscopic...
A judge trying the producer has warned that the “grotesque” case details were enough to cause “nervous shock”.
An acclaimed UK crocodile expert and BBC...
The renowned land formation is full of “ironic” species, the president declared.
US President Joe Biden called the Grand Canyon “one of Earth’s nine wonders”...
The rollout of on-board cameras across New Zealand's inshore commercial fishing fleet has reached a new milestone, with cameras going live on the first...
The microscopic organism belongs to a previously-undiscovered species.
Scientists in Russia have successfully revived a female roundworm that laid dormant in Siberia for 46,000 years....
Singaporean authorities view rock pigeons as an invasive species.
A 67-year-old man was issued with a S$4,800 (US$3,600) fine in Geylang, Singapore on Friday after...
About 1,200 collisions between whales and vessels have been recorded since 2007.
A crew of four sailors have recounted the sinking of their boat and...
The purebred Rafeiro do Alentejo called "Bobi" is over a year older than the previous titleholder, who has since passed away.
"Bobi" from Portugal has...
Water is one of the basic elements on Earth.
However, water in space may have different characteristics than terrestrial water. A recent experiment is opening...
The Natural and Built Environment Bill and Spatial Planning Bill will make resource management issues worse and should be withdrawn, Federated Farmers has told...
Animal-rights group PETA claimed that sheep suffered severe pain and paralysis in “scientifically worthless” decompression tests.
The US Navy has stopped commissioning decompression sickness experiments...
Male northern quolls rest a third as long as females, who live up to four times longer.
The endangered male northern quoll, an Australian marsupial,...
While the Earth's inner core apparently started rotating faster during the 1970s, its rotation eventually slowed down and came into sync with that of...
Researchers found that despite increasing the volume and duration of their underwater whistles, dolphins’ ability to successfully communicate dropped by almost half at the...
Civilisations come and go through the ages. When governments empower people they harness the intelligence and creativity of their citizens for the good of...
The generational immunity treatment aims to counter the deadly American Foulbrood disease.
The US Department of Agriculture has granted a conditional license to the first-ever...
Welshman John Carmichael shared an image of the mystery object, which also attracted the close attention of his dog.
Gold-coloured substances have been washing up...