New Zealand Geographic
Geo News At last, a chance to examine the world’s rarest whale. Last week, scientists and kaitiaki set to work to necropsy the rarest whale ever discovered—a spade-toothed beaked whale that washed up at the mouth of the Taieri River, south of Dunedin.
Three feet high and rising - New Zealand Geographic
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 New Zealand are responding to the challenge of rising seas.
A map of the future - New Zealand Geographic
Sea-level rise doesn’t affect coasts equally—one bay may be drowned while the beach next door remains the same as ever. Predicting sea-level rise needs to take into account tectonic movement of the land, prevailing winds, coastal erosion and Arctic meltwater. Now, the first-ever detailed map of New Zealand’s coastlines shows what may happen.
Here lies Endurance | New Zealand Geographic
Preserved beneath three kilometres of frigid saltwater and up to five metres of floating sea ice, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s legendary ship “looks like it sank yesterday”, says Nico Vincent, an expert in ultra-deep-sea salvage who helped produce this remarkable new mosaic image. Vincent was part of the Endurance22 team that discovered the wreck in …
Limbo | New Zealand Geographic
At Lake Ellesmere/Te Waihora, Joe Harrison documents an era of change and uncertainty. The mist hangs low over Lake Ellesmere/Te Waihora, a body of water that’s not really a lake, nor a lagoon, but floats somewhere between the two. Reeds and wading birds puncture the dense bottle-green of the water, rich, fragile ecosystems swirling in […]
Issue 173 Jan - Feb 2022 Archives | New Zealand Geographic
Data Most ancient rocks. This map focuses on the top of the South Island, and shows some of Aotearoa’s oldest and youngest rocks. The Tasman region’s hills and mountains contain the country’s oldest geological features.
Land | New Zealand Geographic
The science is stark: to keep our soils productive and our waterways clear, we can’t continue to thrash the land. But can our two giant exporters, farming and forestry, learn to tread more gently?
The war on hawks | New Zealand Geographic
Get out of the city this summer and you’re bound to glimpse a kāhu. The powerful, clever native hawks are revered by those who come to know them. And yet we’ve been slaughtering them for a century and a half. Why? I’m in a line of traffic, speeding south …
Our three-dimensional climate challenge | New Zealand Geographic
To fix the climate problem, New Zealand needs to remove the equivalent of 43.5 megatonnes of carbon dioxide between 2026 and 2030. It will require both reducing emissions and offsetting the balance with permanent forests says Ekos founder Sean Weaver. It’s just after 5pm on Wednesday August 17, 2022. The light in Nelson has long […]
Take a look around | New Zealand Geographic
Nature isn't far away in a national park, enclosed in a zoo or a predator-free sanctuary, or miles out to sea. It's growing alongside the motorway, springing from cracks in the pavement, burrowing in the sand at the beach, fringing urban creeks and flying through the night air. These stories explore the plants, animals and ecosystems that live next door to us.