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What lives down in the deep

Apr 3, 2024 | nzgeo.com | Veronika Meduna

What lives down in the deep An expedition to the Bounty Trough off the coast of Otago, which reaches five kilometres down, added bucketfuls of new species to science, from the slimy to the transparent. Three weeks at sea was enough for a team of Te Papa and NIWA scientists to return with possibly hundreds of new species—even a creature that has so far defied known taxonomic categories.
Taking on water

Apr 3, 2024 | nzgeo.com | Kate Evans

Follow Our Changing World on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRADIO or wherever you listen to your podcastsThis is an updated excerpt from the July – August 2023 New Zealand Geographic feature article ‘Taking on water’. In 1975 five square kilometres from Cape Rodney to Okakari Point was made a marine reserve, the first in New Zealand, and possibly, the world. “Nothing to do at Goat Island anymore,” declared the local newspaper. Three hundred thousand people now visit every year.
Hawke’s Bay had no emergency plan for a big flood

Mar 27, 2024 | nzgeo.com | Rachel Morris

Society Hawke’s Bay had no emergency plan for a big flood And it didn’t need to. No regional council is required to make detailed emergency plans for natural disasters. The vast majority of Hawke’s Bay residents, however, live in on a flood plain and what happened on the night of February 13-14, 2023, was a test case in unpreparedness.
Goodbye, environmental laws! We're in our construction era now

Mar 21, 2024 | nzgeo.com | Rebekah White

Society Goodbye, environmental laws! We’re in our construction era now Building anything in New Zealand takes too long and costs too much. The government plans to solve this with new legislation that will greenlight big projects in one go. Which projects? That’s a secret.
Fish out of water

Mar 14, 2024 | nzgeo.com | Kate Evans

Our Changing World Fish out of water March 14, 2024 Ocean Beach used to process lambs, a record of 20 000 in one day, but now it’s gullies and troughs run with seawater, not blood. Home to the New Zealand Abalone company and Manaaki Whitebait it’s become one the frontiers of New Zealand aquaculture – growing fish indoors. It’s not an easy task. Growing fish on land means taking responsibility for their needs throughout their life cycle. First you must identify those needs, account for them in...
Kina-nomics

Mar 6, 2024 | nzgeo.com | Kate Evans

Our Changing World Kina-nomics March 7, 2024 Kina numbers have exploded as we’ve eaten too many of their predators – like big snapper and crayfish – that usually keep them in check. The urchins munch through kelp and seaweed, leaving bare rock and little else. The kina themselves end up suffering too – they persist in these zones as zombies, eating little and barely producing any roe. Luckily, these barrens can be reversed and kelp forests restored when the kina are removed. Kina-nomics...
How an old British law may hold New Zealand's biggest polluters to account

Feb 29, 2024 | nzgeo.com | Pete McKenzie

How an old British law may hold New Zealand’s biggest polluters to account Seven companies representing a third of New Zealand’s carbon emissions will defend their impact on the environment, in a case brought by Māori activist Mike Smith—with help from a 19th-century ruling on Birmingham sewage.
Glow it up

Feb 25, 2024 | nzgeo.com | Kate Evans |Giselle Clarkson

Just so Glow it up Plants can do it. Fish can do it. Worms can do it. Even single-celled plankton can do it. Why does so much of the natural world get to glow in the dark? The yacht Ganesha was off the southern coast of Java in August 2019 when it happened.
Muckraking

Feb 24, 2024 | nzgeo.com | Catherine Woulfe

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Oh, the places you’ll go

Feb 24, 2024 | nzgeo.com | Catherine Woulfe

Two pieces in this magazine were put together on Te Araroa, the walking track that stretches the length of New Zealand. German photographer Dirk Nayhauss hit the trail in 2022 and into 2023, documenting trees for the photo essay on page 10. And this summer, for the blue carbon feature on page 32, journalist Naomi Arnold wrote about seagrass regeneration, popping into public libraries to work as she walked from Bluff to Arrowtown. “It was the windiest month in Southland since 1970,” she says.