There’s no going back. New Zealand has been irreversibly changed since COVID-19 first arrived here in February. How will this end? February 26 was the highest point of summer, and travellers stepping ...

A curious thing happened to Rebekah White this week. While the editor of the New Zealand Geographic was walking up a river she found herself plunging into the ground! Do we have quicksand in Aotearoa?

It has been a soggy few weeks for the upper North Island, with late January’s Auckland downpour and now, Cyclone Gabrielle. States of emergency have been declared across Ikaroa-a-Māui, schools and non ...

Riley Elliott is a shark researcher who is determined to protect the tiger sharks off Norfolk Island, who feast on cow carcasses dumped by farmers on the old penal colony. The sharks and their ...

After 10,000 years of inbreeding, Rakiura/Stewart Island kākāpō have been found to be in surprisingly good genetic health. A major international study reveals the kākāpō have lost harmful mutations ...

In his trailblazing new book, Frontal Fatigue: The Impact of Modern Life and Technology on Mental Illness, Dr Mark Rego examines why mental illness and stress are skyrocketing alongside technology.

An expert in natural disasters says it’s absolutely possible Tonga’s volcanic eruption could have sparked tsunami waves reaching 15-metres high at their peak. Five days on from one of the largest ...

Significant work will be required to fix the Far North’s Tūtūkākā Marina, which was severely impacted by strong surges after the eruption of underwater volcano Hunga-Tonga-Hunga-Ha’apai in the Pacific ...

New research shows November’s 7.8 magnitude Kaikōura earthquake sparked a series of unprecedented ‘slow slip events’ off the east coast of the North Island, up to 600km away. Here is how this recently ...

While we might sometimes consider insects a bit of a nuisance, the world would be in big trouble without them. Insects pollinate food crops essential for our survival, they control pests and help ...

Fiordland tourism operators say the rules governing the national park are outdated and leave no room for common sense. Each national park is required to have its management plan reviewed every 10 ...

Australian Antarctic expeditioners have discovered an enormous, 2-kilometre-deep canyon underneath a glacier that may make it more vulnerable to warming oceans. The discovery also indicates the ...