Antarctic sea ice levels have been at record lows for the last three years, a global report shows. The World Meteorological Organisation's State of the Global Climate 2024 report also highlights three ...

As we head into winter illness season, the SMC asked experts for the latest on ou. An updated vaccine targeting new COVID variants became available in January. Dr Lisa Connor, head of the Connor labor ...

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Pancake ice forms in the Ross Sea at sunset near the coast of of Victoria Land. Credit: owamux, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons ...

About 40% of adults with chronic pain have anxiety or depression, according to new overseas research covering data from 50 countries. The research team looked at 376 studies comprising almost 350,000 ...

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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 ...

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 ...