Birds around the world are singing for nearly an hour longer on average due to light pollution, a global study finds. Millions of birdsong recordings including some from NZ’s North Island were used in ...

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Negotiators have failed to agree on a legally-binding global plastics treaty at the UN. The treaty was an attempt to curb the ...

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Professor Nicola Gaston, Director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, comments: “Despite the jazz hands in display around the announcement of the NZIAT (or Advanced ...

A new proposal would replace NCEA Level 1 with a foundational award, and change the assessment system for Levels 2 & 3. The proposal has a focus on structured learning, with compulsory language and ...

An estimated magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s eastern coast has resulted in tsunami warnings across much of the Pacific. New Zealand’s coasts may experience “strong and unusual currents and ...

Prof Bruce Whitelaw, Professor of Animal Biotechnology and Director of The Roslin Institute, said: “Biodiversity across our planet is both facing unprecedented challenges and increasing recognised as ...

An overseas company has announced plans to “bring back” the South Island giant moa. Colossal Biosciences, working with Ngāi Tahu Research Centre and Canterbury Museum, says it expects to “resurrect” ...

The strategy released this afternoon is a signal of "unwavering support for private sector investment in AI," the government says. The strategy document says NZ's use of Artificial Intelligence "shows ...

Warmer, saltier water from deep in the Southern Ocean has started rising to the surface, bringing up more carbon dioxide, a recent study shows. Fresher, cooler surface waters had helped sea ice expand ...