Environment

Kiri Danielle has cleaned up rubbish dumped on the mountain over the past 12 years.

A Hong Kong taxi for Auckland, a makeover for a 170-year-old woolshed and AUT's first marine biologist are among the latest feel-good stories from RNZ.

Out of sight - in to mined? Frank Film gauges local attitudes to increased plans for West Coast mining.

The operator says it could also affect human health and the environment.

Any proposed cuts at the EPA make no sense and carried risks for the environment, Environmental Defence Society chief executive Gary Taylor says.

A council legal bid for an injunction to get protesters to stay at least a metre from controversial sewerage works near Rotorua's sacred Lake Rotokākahi has failed - for now.

The Hauraki Gulf has been valued at $5 billion a year - but is under threat from invasive caulerpa seaweed.

A former Marlborough councillor has overcome the final legal hurdle after taking the council to court over management of pines on his land.

The government's environmental watchdog and justice ministry have confirmed a total of 169 jobs are planned between them.

The country's largest re-vegetation programme on private land has just planted its eight millionth tree.

Gore has breached its air quality standards for the first time in four years.

Human remains have been found inside a crocodile that wildlife officers euthanased in far north Queensland.

For more than 100 years, swimming in the river was banned due to health concerns. Now, Olympic athletes are competing in it and falling sick.

DOC says the pass will save trampers money and provide it with better data on those using the trail.