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

As we head into winter illness season, the SMC asked experts for the latest on ou. An updated vaccine targeting new COVID ...

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 in every 1,000 females, according to a new study of 185 countries. Our rates of death from ...

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 ...

As air temperatures get hotter with climate change, urban fires will get more common, with New Zealand seeing over 40% more city fires by 2100 with unmitigated warming of over 4°C, according to new ...

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 ...