One of New Zealand’s signature trees—the southern rata, Metrosideros umbellata—has recently been identified as the...
It has long been recognised that New Zealand was once part of the great supercontinent...
Shipwright George Bennett was scoffed at when, after arriving in Wellington in 1848, he bought...
Heavy snowfalls at the beginning of winter promised better skifield conditions this year than skiers...
Against the trend of recent conservation successes with threatened species, the prospect of another slow...
Some 130 years after Jakob Lauper and John Whitcombe made the first nightmarish traverse from...
A grand skink cuts a handsome figure in its Otago homeland, but its prospects-like those...
Built on coal and camaraderie, the West Coast town of Blackball played a pivotal role...
A scything ridge of sand—very emblem of desert lands—runs into the great wilderness that is...
