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Airshed quality improved
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (310+ words) Southland’s air quality is showing signs of improvement, with only one PM10 pollution exceedance recorded across the province this winter. Environment Southland science investigations and operations manager Ash Rabel said Invercargill city’s PM10 exceedance record for 2026 remained clean. “It’s been one of…...
El Niño brings risk of wildfires
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (487+ words) Canterbury’s regional council is preparing for the risk of wildfires this summer. Environment Canterbury regional parks team leader Karen Elliott says staff have spent the past 12 months gearing up for a potentially challenging fire season across Canterbury's regional parks, river…...
Concerns about endowment land benefits moving further around Central Otago
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (11+ words) ODT...
Trapping workshop at Greta Valley’s Birdsong Project
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (391+ words) Think like a pest! This was the message delivered at the Hurunui Biodiversity Trust’s Trapping Workshop last Saturday. Tim Sjoberg, leader of a professional trapping team for Pest Free Banks Peninsula, was the guest at the Scargill-Motunau Reserve where over…...
Lizard survival numbers reduced by Santana to ‘unprecedented’ levels
3+ day, 17+ hour ago (10+ words) ODT...
Forestry graduate growing young minds in Canterbury
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (1029+ words) After 25 years at Ellesmere College, Antony French has gone from science and agriculture teacher to principal, but his passion for helping students become good people remains at the heart of his career. Daniel Alvey reports On December 21, 2000, Antony French walked…...
Firefighters, farmers brace for trouble as El Niño looms
5+ day, 10+ hour ago (1318+ words) One of the strongest El Niño events on record is expected over summer, putting emergency services, councils and farmers on alert for a hotter, drier season. Raphael Franks reports. El Niño will bring more severe dry and windy conditions to…...
Feeding the key to survival as issues plague penguins worldwide
5+ day, 17+ hour ago (11+ words) ODT...
Water quality trials deemed inconclusive at algae-plagued Canterbury lake
1+ week, 3+ day ago (574+ words) Scientific trials haven’t cleared up how to rid a Canterbury lake of its algae issues. Algal bloom health warnings have been in place at Lake Hood, south of Ashburton, for four consecutive summers. Ashburton District Council collaborated with cyanobacteria expert…...