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Dominic Hogg wants to stop your rubbish bin from stinking.

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An upcoming tour aims to create an awareness of the state of the city's waterways

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I'm bouncing in the backseat being driven along a typical pock-marked Fiji road when a mustelid-like animal runs out in front of the car and disappears into the grass verge.

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A conservation project on the northern Coromandel Peninsula is being hailed as " far the world's most prolific recovery ever recorded for an endangered waterfowl species''.

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People are being warned not to take shellfish or swim in parts of Coromandel Harbour after a leak was discovered at the Coromandel wastewater plant.

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Two firms have been slapped with more than $13,000 in fines after allowing sediment to flow into a stream while they built a passing lane near Te Kuiti last year.

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The Crafar brothers have broken their silence about dairy effluent prosecutions related to their companies.

A group of Whitianga residents whose beachfront homes are under threat by erosion are pressing the Thames-Coromandel District Council for urgent action to stop the sea swallowing their properties.

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Just how will the National Government approach the UN's crucial climate change meeting in Denmark later this year? Indications from Environment Minister Nick Smith, who spoke in Hamilton last week, failed to impress columnist Rob Love.

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Exhibitors pitching the environmental message at this year's Fieldays say interest from the farming sector has surged dramatically.

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Waikato environmental groups and the Green Party say years of conservation work will be undone if the regional council cuts back on pest control programmes.

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There were plenty of puzzled looks and lots of cries of "I want my picture taken with the panda".

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Ian Mayes could well be the Hamilton City Council's most popular employee.

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Hamilton's Hood St entertainment district will mark next Saturday's Earth Hour with an hour of near-darkness.

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The regional council has scrapped its $1 million funding of its flagship clean streams programme.

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The Waikato can expect more extremes of flooding and drought as the effects of climate change grow.

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Mark down Sunday February 8 as "the hot one".

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Urgent calls are being made to stop a kauri-killing disease spreading to the Waikato.

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About 70 endangered short-tailed bats were accidentally poisoned during Department of Conservation pest control in Pureora Forest Park, near Benneydale.

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Kiwi conservation groups are warning the national bird could be under threat from careless holiday makers.