An environment court decision has ruled in favour of more protection of the endangered long-tailed bats - pekapeka - living along the Waikato River. Read...

Planning to deal with rising sea levels, and how low-lying communities respond to it, will get underway in Christchurch.The Ministry for the Environment predicted sea levels would rise by about 370mm within the next 30 years – and... Read...

Replacing the classroom with the great outdoors to teach schoolchildren about protecting the environment has proven to be a huge success.A group of 150 schoolkids descended upon the Te Ara ō Wairākei reserve in Pāpāmoa... Read...

WARNING: THIS ARTICLE DEALS WITH SUICIDE The family of a Wellington man who took his own life in Canada say he was struggling and under enormous pressure in a `toxic` work environment - and they are calling for urgent change to... Read...

For the year ended 30 June, Chorus delivered EBITDA of $648m, delivering net profit of $52m. The board anticipates payment of fully imputed dividends increasing to 25cps in the current financial year, subject to no material worsening of the environment Read...

A Fiji court has rejected an application by real estate developer Freesoul who this week sought to exclude testimony by enviroment officers in the trial against the company. Read...

The Bank of New Zealand`s net profit after tax fell 25 per cent or $260 million to $762m for the year to September 30 driven by increased impairments and the low interest rate environment.The bank`s impairments rose $186m or 163... Read...

OPINION: Who cares about the seabed? We cannot see it. We have no collective understanding of its vital importance. Read...

Maori resource management is about working with the environment, not the `plundering` done in the past, a freshwater ecologist says. Read...

Fonterra says 34 percent of its farmers now have tailored farm environment plans, up from 23 percent at the start of the year. Read...