Rio Tinto’s New Zealand Aluminium Smelters says it will spend $50 million on processing spent cell liner at its Tiwai Point aluminium smelter in Southland. The company said it was a big step forward ...

Dawn Meats has completed the formal acquisition of New Zealand meat producer Alliance Group in a deal worth NZ$270m (€132m).

Writer and curator Kate Waterhouse has spent the past several years looking into the life of Aotea Great Barrier botanical artist Fanny Osborne. Kate says Fanny is one of New Zealand's forgotten ...

Minister Watts describes the changes as a “sensible, future-focused reform” that balances strong environmental protections ...

Mostly written in Latin, the information held in Solander’s manuscripts have received less attention than the drawings from the voyage. Through their digitisation and transcription, the information ...

A research group led by Dr. Ryushiro Kasahara has discovered a new plant tissue essential for seed formation, which will be ...

A pioneering scientist who made global breakthroughs in the use of genetic technologies for crop plants has been awarded one ...

Ratepayers across New Zealand will be better off under new national wastewater environmental performance standards, which will significantly cut consenting costs for councils and help reduce pressure ...

The robust grasshopper (Sigaus robustus), native to New Zealand's Mackenzie basin, is usually grey or brown in colour, but a ...

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Detectives are using all kinds of gizmos and gadgets to solve crimes these days, but they're overlooking the lowest of ...

It was 2006 and Ismail Ebrahim, a botanist with the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI), was worried. While ...