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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The median age of women giving birth in Aotearoa New Zealand has reached 31.5 years in 2024, according to newly released Stats NZ data. This is the oldest age since records began in 1962. In 2024, ...

The government recently announced decisions on a new framework to incentivise carbon capture, utilisation, and storage by New Zealand companies. How does this technology work and how common is it ...