Author and documentary filmmaker Bill Morris takes us back in time in his new book The Road to Gondwana – in search of the lost supercontinent. Aotearoa New Zealand is just one fragment of this giant ...

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 ...

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?

Today we cover the story of Peter La Fleming, a 21-year-old who had a fall on the 78-kilometre Heaphy Track in January 1980, became disorientated and lost for almost a month. He was rescued after 29 ...

This week’s critter is the ngaro tara or three-lined hoverfly, a noisy native species with an important role as a pollinator. Ngaro tara have an ugly duckling life history, turning from a rat-tailed ...

Some Māori and Pacific people say they have been shut out of climate change activism. They warn if their voices are not included it risks perpetuating the massive inequalities in this country. Kera ...

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 ...

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 ...

The coldest US state of Alaska has recorded its hottest-ever December day, amid an unusual winter warm spell. Temperatures soared to a record 19.4C on the island of Kodiak on Sunday – almost seven ...

Despite some gains last year, the Environment Ministry still does not resemble the diversity of wider society. Māori, Pasifika and Asian people are drastically under-represented in the ministry’s ...

A smart buoy anchored in Wellington Harbour is phoning home with information about local weather and sea conditions. That information is now freely available online, and could be a boon for local ...

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 ...