At night, the only light in the warehouse comes from row upon row of truck-sized tanks, each lit from within like a gigantic lava lamp. The contents roil, the colours shifting with the movement from ...

“Epic” is an overused word. I’m in the heart of Mount Aspiring National Park. We’re surrounded on three sides by 400-metre cliffs, over which tumble curtains of water. Boulders the size of townhouses ...

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 ...

What would the beach be without red-billed gulls? We may be about to find out. Two huge colonies have already gone under and the next biggest, in Kaikōura, is failing fast. In December 2023, ...

Hundreds of snapper are floating in the sea off Auckland, and are washing up dead or dying on beaches off the Hauraki Gulf. Fisheries New Zealand is warning the public not to eat the fish “for safety ...

The release of Disney’s Moana in te reo was a landmark for Māori language revitalisation. As that rebirth gathers steam, mita, or dialects are returning to the fore. When The Lion King Reo Māori hit ...

Welcome to your new Weekender. Every Friday afternoon, we’ll be bringing you original stories from New Zealand Geographic. The big change is that we’re publishing news stories independently of the ...

In spite of a widespread belief that their race and culture are extinct, Moriori people have survived on the Chatham Islands and are undergoing a cultural revival similar to that of their mainland ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Marlborough’s wine industry is booming, but there’s no industrial-sized solution to deal with its waste. Sewage fungus is not what the wine industry wants people to think of when they sip a sauvignon ...