The WHO halved the recommended limits for average annual PM2.5 levels from 10 micrograms per cubic metre to 5.
The Bill sets up the legal framework for the Government's clean car discount and fees for high-emission imports.
Most of us at some point or another have left the house, only to turn back 'cause the weather turned bad.
Mana whenua say biosecurity officials must eradicate it.
More than 1400 dolphins were killed on Sunday off the coast of the Faroe Islands in a single day.
A New Zealand coffee cup maker has been forced to retract claims they're recyclable, even though they are.
Scientists are potty-training cows in the hope it might help save the planet.
A small number of kākāpō that have survived isolated on Rakiura/Stewart Island for 10,000 years have turned out to be less-inbred than their relatives on the mainland.
The US Coast Guard said on Monday it was investigating nearly 350 reports.
The water will be used mainly for avocado orchards.
Hundreds are already on the brink of being wiped out.
A 1980s pact might have unintentionally given us an extra decade or two to fight climate change, a new study has found.
But Tamatha Paul doesn't want the responsibility, saying she'd rather "be on the streets telling them to do a better job".
Defence's $2 billion plans to modernise its rundown infrastructure do not include cleaning up the land.
New Zealand is one of 50 countries being called on to introduce or raise taxes on meat and dairy.
New Zealand's emissions hit a seven-year low in the year ended March 2021, new figures show.
Greenwashing is an attempt to pass something off as better for the environment than it actually is.
The warning was released as part of a new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
"Why are you attacking the most environmentally efficient farmers in the world?"
Ranger Warren Hunt warns there was a real risk to dogs and any child who touched the trap.
