The Tasman is no place to linger for seabirds....
Whale sharks save energy by sinking slowly....
In a story full of surprises, the most staggering notion in Kennedy Warne’s rising seas feature is that all the world could stop burning fossil fuels today, and it wouldn’t make a shred of difference to sea levels for at least 100 years. The chemical changes that we have wrought in our atmosphere and seas since […]...
Are we selling future generations down the river?...
New Zealand’s highest mountain, Aoraki/Mount Cook, forms the cornerstone of the country’s longest cycle trail. Starting from the Southern Alps, this 260-kilometre trail descends 540 metres through the Mackenzie Basin and down the Waitaki Valley to Oamaru and the Pacific Ocean. The Alps 2 Ocean (A2O) trail has eight distinct sections, which can be ridden individually, […]...
With predicted increases in sea level of a metre or more by the end of this century, present-day problems of coastal erosion, flooding and salt-water intrusion into groundwater are going to get much worse. As world leaders gather in Paris to seek a political solution to climate change, it’s timely to ask how we in […]...
Bill Morris grew up on a farm in the headwaters of the Rakaia Valley, the son of a farmer and bush poet. As a result, he became interested in writing at a young age, and the sometimes-fraught relationship between people and the land. Later, he worked as a commercial diver around the coast of Stewart Island, […]...
As ice sheets melt, magma flows....
After a 40-year saga involving art theft, kidnapping, ransom and negotiation, a unique set of five carved panels have been returned to a Taranaki iwi....
Cheese moulds have collaborated genetically to evolve, but now there’s no way back....
