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Hornwort can grow up to 10 metres high

South Island free of hornwort water weed

An invasive water weed which could potentially clog hydro-electric stations is believed to have been eliminated in the South Island.

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The 2.6m whitetip shark found on Auckland's Muriwai Beach (Photo: Melanie Cooper)

Rare shark embalmed for museum video

A whitetip shark found on Muriwai Beach over the weekend has been embalmed for the Auckland Museum's natural sciences collection.

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Los Angeles skyline

Tracking big city carbon footprints

Every time Los Angeles exhales, gadgets anchored in the mountains above the city trace the invisible puffs of carbon dioxide.

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Environment Minister Amy Adams

Mackenzie Basin agreement hailed

Ministers are hailing an agreement on the future Mackenzie Basin reached by interest groups but are not committing to it.

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The 'Rowdy' tag has been found more than 40 times (supplied)

Routeburn vandals may escape justice

DoC is running out of leads in the hunt for a tagger who has defaced several walking tracks across the South Island.

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UK airline to test ash cloud detector

A UK budget airline will create an artificial volcanic ash cloud over Europe this summer to test ash detection technology.

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Smoke piles out of the Christchurch rubbish pit (supplied)

Toxic Christchurch fire to be put out

Residents dealing with the effects of a toxic fire burning in a recycling plant may finally be able to escape from the smoke.

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Routeburn taggers will be caught - DOC

The Department of Conservation is confident it will catch the person who tagged a number of structures on the South Island's Routeburn Track.

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Fixing NZ's harmful dioxin dumps video

All over the country there's pockets of dioxin contamination that need to be cleaned up or "remediated".

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