Rebecca Fox

As the human impact on estuaries increases, so does the production of a harmful greenhouse gas, University of Otago graduate Dr Catherine Gongol says.

A Dunedin man's Christmas was saved by the anonymous goodwill of a person who handed in the $2500 the man lost on Friday while shopping.

Scientists are excited by the opportunity to learn more about the rarely seen Arnoux beaked whale after one was stranded and died in Purakaunui Inlet on Wednesday.

People and wildlife do not always mix. Otago beaches are a magnet for people in the summer holidays, but Rebecca Fox warns we should tread carefully.

Information gleaned from the experimental relocation of robins to Orokonui Ecosanctuary will hopefully help with the translocation of endangered species in the future, University of Otago associate professor Ian Jamieson says.

Department of Conservation staff will move the body of a beaked whale from Purakaunui Inlet at low tide today after an attempt to rescue it last night failed.

The Mielniks may have had a rocky start to beginning work on their new home but about a year later they are moving in.

Spending six hours decorating his bus, dubbed the "Santa express", and then sweltering his way through shifts in a Santa suit, is all worth it for Lindsay Haar.

Concern the proposed Wednesday farmers market could take customers away from Saturday's established railway station market has been raised by vendors.

Rivers across Otago are very low for this time of year and if rain does not fall during the next few weeks, the region could be in for a very dry summer.

Numbers of the nationally endangered mohua in the Catlins are continuing to stabilise, more than a year on from a poisoning programme to reduce predators.

Four years on from the last work done as part of the Leith Lindsay flood protection scheme, another section of work has begun.

The trip into town will not be quite so quick for the Vella-King family, but they are looking forward to the slower pace of life as caretakers of Quarantine Island, in Otago Harbour.

Otago Fish and Game has been heavily criticised by the Otago Regional Council over its handling of its concerns about the Lundy wetland (formerly the Cairn wetland) in South Otago.

Perfect breeding conditions have led to a massive explosion in rabbit numbers in Otago, which one rabbiter says is the biggest he has seen in 25 years.

It is believed natural activity caused the deaths of fish in the Kaikorai Stream recently.

A different type of cloud formation was seen over Dunedin and Mosgiel yesterday morning.