Only a 40-minute ferry ride from downtown Auckland, Waiheke Island receives an avalanche of visitors every summer. But it’s ...

In fact the rats’ genetic family tree has been used to shed light on ... Criticism comes also from members of the Ngātiwai, a tribe of Maori on the North Island. Their Polynesian ancestors ...

Trees get most of the love, but diatoms, a group of photosynthetic microalgae, produce 20% of Earth's oxygen and are the ...

Research finds diatoms evolved slowly for 100 million years and then experienced an evolutionary burst of speciation 170 million years ago.

Rotorua’s Hariata Vercoe has been made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit for her services to Māori, health, and the community. “I was a bit shocked, actually,” Vercoe said when ...

A 14.6-million-year-old fossilized Leioproctus bee has been discovered, calling into question current theories about ...

On the edge of a dense forest on a rugged Australian island, an enormous stump rises from the ground—all that remains of a ...

Forests cover nearly a third of all land on Earth, providing vital organic infrastructure for some of the planet's densest, most diverse collections of life ... leafy tree is estimated to produce ...

Urate crystals alone are required but not sufficient to trigger gout flares; they can also be modulated by environmental, metabolic, genetic and epigenetic factors. Avoiding large variation in ...

Wickliffe, former Labour Minister Dover Samuels, and waka stalwart Joe Conrad are among the Māori on this year's list.

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