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There is a house, surrounded by swamp and a deep, dark lowland rainforest, in tropical Australia. Galmara is its name, Galmara the poet, the singer of songs. Galmara fears for its future. It was built ...

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 ...

Te Punaha Matatini’s Michael Plank is one of the country’s most respected modellers, but even he says Omicron can be a tricky virus to get one’s figures around. Professor Plank has said the peak of ...

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 ...

Australian miner Oceana Gold has come in for high praise from the Department of Conservation for its restoration work at the former Globe Progress goldmine near Reefton. Oceana ceased mining in 2016 ...

Between 6–10 metres of rain falls in Fiordland each year. An incredible amount. It’s part of what powers the forest-to-fiord carbon storage pump that makes Fiordland exceptionally good at locking away ...

A group in Nelson are creating a micro forest. Colin Davis and AJ Clarken decided to embark on the Nelson Whakatu Microforest Initiative after hearing about the micro forest movement spreading around ...

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?

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 milestone in efforts to increase the number of kōkako has been celebrated under the cover of darkness. From a population of just 300 breeding pairs in the late ’90s, the North Island kōkako now ...