Southland, West Coast house prices continue to climb
By Susan Edmunds of RNZ Buyers and sellers are facing mixed fortunes around the country, new data from…
Heatwaves are killing tens of thousands in India. Officials are barely counting them
India has been sweltering through a baking hot summer, with temperatures in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh…
Emergency clean-up ordered at Biloela’s Essential Spill
Emergency stabilisation works have been carried out by the Department of Environment at a Biloela waste business after…
This 243-foot machine is turning ocean tides into clean electricity
While solar panels rely on sunshine and wind turbines depend on changing weather conditions, tidal energy offers something…
Sex jumpstarted Earth’s animal biodiversity
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More than half of clean energy schemes needed for Labour’s 2030 target offered grid connection | Renewable energy
More than half the renewable energy projects needed to meet the government’s clean power targets by 2030 are…
Latitudinal patterns and environmental correlates of plant root exudation
Jackson, R. B. et al. The ecology of soil carbon: pools, vulnerabilities, and biotic and abiotic controls. Annu.…
UN calls for urgent global action as oceans are warming and rising faster
The findings “demand urgent action, through stronger multilateral cooperation, greater ambition and decisions grounded in the best available…
ACT proposes new ‘split-gas’ emissions target
The ACT party last year pledged to leave the Paris Agreement unless New Zealand was allowed to set…
A Swedish research robot submarine detects unknown structures beneath Antarctica’s Dotson Ice Shelf, and the find suggests ice shelf’s underside is more complex than expected | World News
Image of Edge of the Dotson Ice Shelf| Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons When researchers sent a bright orange…
What happens when the world’s breadbaskets start failing simultaneously?
Agriculture today is a massive, globally interconnected industry. That interconnectivity has brought jobs and varied foods to people…
‘Ad hoc and piecemeal’: Insurer IAG slams govt’s approach to natural hazards in new report
New Zealand’s approach to natural hazard risk will permanently constrain the economy if nothing changes, an insurer says.…