People have been evacuated from their homes around the Island Hills where fire crews are battling an uncontained bush fire.

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A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Jan. 30 after a new ...

A claim filed in Wellington’s High Court says the Chatham Islands Council erred in granting carbon farming consents ...

Video / NZ Herald Forecasters are warning of potential for severe thunderstorms across the central North Island later today ... if a cyclone did form, New Zealand would likely be buffered ...

On the windswept stretch of Koekohe Beach along New Zealand’s Otago coast, a group of massive, spherical rocks has been ...

A journey through the Emerald Isles is a must for any road trip-loving Kiwi, but what really awaits you on an Irish road trip? Nicola Lamb finds out. Anyone thinking of having a wander around Ireland ...

Botanists have found a stand of rare trees in Tanzania’s Zanzibar archipelago not known to grow wild anywhere else in Africa.

With their keen sense of smell and laser-like vision, a team of talented dogs from Co Down are helping sniff out endangered species and protect our wildlife. Jenny Lee finds more about the work of Con ...

Back then, it was a regional list, conceived as an objective way to determine which mountains in the Indonesian archipelago would probably be worth attempting to hike at weekends. We developed the ...

The Cook Islands lie halfway between New Zealand and Hawaii and are made up of 15 islands and atolls spread over 700 square ...

New research has identified the extent to which human colonization and hunting contributed to the extinction of New Zealand's ...