There are not many lawyers who I respect. However, that's not the case with Peter Williams, who is clearly one of the good guys. Not ...

Today, the NZ Herald reported : New Zealand has one of the highest death rates from cancer in the Asia-Pacific region, a report shows. ...

Today, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Jan Wright, released her interim report Evaluating the environmental impacts of...

Today, the NZ Herald reported : Just over a year after the Rena struck the Astrolabe Reef in the Bay of Plenty, containers of hazardous ...

Today, the University of Otago reported : The Government’s announcement that it will increase the co-payment for a prescription from $3 ...

Minister of Social Development Paula Bennett was recently in the news saying that the long acting contraceptive Depo-Provera was perfectly ...

Today, the Waikato Times reported : Your chances of surviving cancer are improving – unless you are poor or Maori. A new Otago Univers...

Last week, Arysta LifeScience made a press statement (PDF) announcing that it was ceasing sales and withdrawing from the U.S. all of its m...

Methyl iodide is a pesticide that is sometimes used for fumigating soil before planting. It's manufactured by Arysta LifeScience and...

New Zealand has the third-highest rate of children living in single-parent homes, an OECD study says. This means nearly one in four Ki...

Checking out your drinking water might be a good idea if you or a family member has asthma and allergies.  A recent Belgian study conclud...

New Zealand has a serious environmental pollution problem that has been largely ignored by consecutive National and Labour Governments. W...

Audio Version. Pulp and Paper mills, what’s really in your factories waste discharge? It wouldn’t be methyl mercaptan, hydrogen sulphide...

Audion Version. Scientists consider chlorine one of the most toxic elements around. Exposure to chlorine vapour can create adverse heal...