The Antarctic ozone hole reached 27.4 million square kilometres in September 2026, its largest in about 20 years, and Otago researchers predicted it in May.
A major fireball crossed Taranaki just before 11pm on Wednesday and probably fell into the sea west of Marakopa, but fragments may have reached land.
The Pink and White Terraces drew the world to Rotomahana until Tarawera erupted on 10 June 1886. What visitors saw, how the night went, and where they are now.
Mt Ruapehu explained in depth. The crater lake Te Wai ā-moe, 76 years of temperature data, the full eruption history and what the volcano is doing now.
Nearly ten years after the 2016 M7.8 Kaikōura earthquake, what we now know about the faults that broke, the coast that rose and the hazard that remains.
Sixteen years after Darfield, what we now know about the faults behind the Christchurch earthquakes, from the Greendale rupture to the hazard that remains.
Four small stones picked up off farmland north of Masterton have been confirmed as New Zealand’s 11th meteorite, and only the fourth ever collected here after somebody actually watched it…
At the peak of the last ice age the North and South Islands were joined into one landmass and the sea was more than 100 metres lower. A look at…
The Taumarunui earthquake came from normal faulting in stretching crust at the edge of the Taupō Volcanic Zone. What the geology shows and what comes next.
New Zealand has one venomous native spider and two native plants that have killed. Here is what is actually dangerous, based on National Poisons Centre data.
Science says the Fiordland moose is extinct, but DNA evidence and credible 2025 sightings keep the mystery alive as twelve hidden cameras come out this month.
A 284 hectare rock in the Auckland Islands holds 95 percent of the world’s white-capped albatross and was where 15 men survived for eight months after their ship hit the…
New Zealand sits on top of one of the most productive volcanic systems on the planet, and a new study has reconstructed the single largest blast it ever produced. Researchers…
Sixty hectares of predator-free island in the Auckland Islands group hold what the much larger main island has lost. The country’s most ambitious island restoration project is built around the…
Most of the certainty in public climate messaging sits on data corrections, methodology choices and contested attributions the public rarely sees.
Two hundred kilometres south of Stewart Island sits one of the most biologically intense pieces of land on Earth. No one has ever introduced a rat to the Snares Islands,…