The Tokelau project started with a phone call during lockdown five years ago. Conservation International had been successful with its proposal to MFAT, and wanted us to contribute to a very different ...

Society Tokelau, Islands of the wind. Homesickness and uncertainty show on the faces of Tokelauans returning to the islands. Although Tokelau is counted as part of New Zealand, living conditions in ...

In 2024, Naomi Arnold slogged her way up Te Araroa, walking from Bluff to Cape Reinga over about nine months. Here, 100 kilometres into her odyssey and deeply unsure about her capacity to finish it, ...

In the field Tech for Tokelau. The Tokelau project started with a phone call during lockdown five years ago. Conservation International had been successful with its proposal to MFAT, and wanted us to ...

''Sardine smoothies'' have been on the menu for Kaikōura's endangered Hutton's shearwater birds (tītī) this season. A lack of food has seen volunteers supplement feeding chicks at Te Rae o Atiu colony ...

Auckland-based company Buckley Systems has developed and manufactured a machine which could help treat the most difficult cancers. Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) delivers targeted radiation to ...

The depth of the sedimentary basin beneath Wellington is the reason there was so much shaking and damage in parts of Wellington during the 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake. That's the finding of a new study ...

Roland Ennos says humanity owes a huge debt to the most humble of materials; wood. His book The Wood Age: How One Material Shaped the Whole of Human History takes us on a sweeping ten-million-year ...

A roadmap has been developed for how New Zealand could grow its seaweed industry. There is already an emerging seaweed sector in New Zealand but it is very small compared to international markets.

Flocks of kererū, kākā and tītī could make a comeback in the central North Island if a tribe's vision for a 2700ha 'inland island' sanctuary moves ahead. The Uenuku iwi plan for an eco-sanctuary for ...

Non-sugar sweeteners like stevia are becoming increasingly common in New Zealand, according to a new study from the University of Auckland. Dr Leanne Young from the University of Auckland School of ...

One of the country's biggest investment funds, ACC, has launched a $100 million Climate Change Impact Fund. ACC's first investments for the fund are in Lodestone Energy's solar farms, and Leaft Foods' ...