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Drought-hit Southland has had welcome rain but more is needed before water and fire restrictions are lifted.

New Zealand’s largest city experiences 2.5 times an entire summer’s rain in just a month

While rainfall has been below average across the South Island, unusually wet patterns across the north have scuppered post-Christmas holidays

A team of scientists — with the help of an uncrewed boat remotely controlled from the UK – join forces to produce one of the clearest pictures to date of what took place underneath the water as an enormous volcano erupted near the Tongan mainland.

With New Zealand’s two major North Island ski fields in financial trouble, the combined impact of COVID-19 on national and international tourism and this year’s very poor snow season has hit hard. But this may be only a sign of things to come as climate change affects snow sports globally.

The coldest writers residency on the planet

Water regulator defends progress on checking for potential non-compliance

A niche piece of technology used by scientists and researchers to rapidly work out the dangers and effects of natural hazard events is winning acclaim and international interest

Underwater volcano Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha'apai's violent eruption in January is said to have made the loudest noise heard this century and displaced seven cubic kilometers of rock and sediment

The volcano continues to stand tall, team of researchers has found

Earlier this month, we wrapped up the latest annual end-of-summer snowline survey over New Zealand’s South Island (Te Waipounamu), providing a birdseye view of how glaciers fared during the past year.