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?

World’s largest parrot found in Central Otago – and it’s twice the size of a Kākāpō. Evidence of the world’s largest parrot has been uncovered in Central Otago – and it’s double the size of the ...

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 ...

In other news, Antarctica New Zealand wants your input on the Scott Base redevelopment by choosing the building’s colour. The buildings will be surrounded by ice… so designers are offering the options ...

Gibson’s and Antipodean albatrosses are citizens of no one nation. They are ocean birds, living on the wind and waves, travelling massive distances, passing back and forth over the high seas and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Residents of Tikorangi in rural Taranaki say the volume of oil and gas traffic in the area is becoming dangerous and affecting their quality of life. Traffic volumes have increased about 48 percent ...

Fiordland tourism operators say the rules governing the national park are outdated and leave no room for common sense.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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...