With the greyhound racing industry coming to an end, most of the 3,000 current racing dogs will be put up for adoption. The ...

We now have details of a new Bill which introduces long-awaited reforms to genetic modification rules, reducing restrictions ...

Food regulators want to streamline how they assess the growing range of lab-grown foods, starting with cell-cultured quail ...

Several strains of highly pathogenic bird flu have been found around the globe, and now in New Zealand. The virus found on ...

With humanities and social sciences removed from the "blue-skies" research fund, many Māori-led research projects will no ...

Cocaine and methamphetamine have been detected at their highest ever rates in New Zealand's wastewater. Wastewater testing ...

The Climate Change Commission/He Pou a Rangi recommends New Zealand set more ambitious carbon targets. The Commission says ...

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Countries negotiating a global treaty to curb plastic pollution have failed to reach an agreement after a week of talks in Busan, South Korea.  The session failed to resolve deep divisions between ...