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Virtual Reality launched on NZGeo.com
Protected from fishing for 35 years, the waters of the Poor Knights Islands abound with life and are the subject of NZGeo's first 360 documentary. Join marine biologist Lucy Van Oosterom and discover the secrets of these islands—on your phone, tablet or desktop, using your browser or a headset.
Check out our first Virtual Field Trip: Poor Knights Island
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#WeekendRead: No Swimming
Five millimetres of rain in a day is not uncommon in Auckland, but it is enough to cause parts of the city’s wastewater network to overflow, spilling raw sewage into the sea and making beaches unsafe for swimming. This summer, permanent warning signs were posted at 10 locations where water quality is so bad that Auckland Council no longer monitors it. Why are Auckland’s beaches so frequently unswimmable? Is the solution better plumbing—or more enlightened thinking?
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Explainer: New "Swimmable" water standards
The Government says it’s OK to swim in just over 70 per cent of the country’s rivers and lakes. By 2040, it aims to make 90 per cent of rivers and lakes “swimmable” on the back of standards in a new Clean Water Package that relate to both the ability to swim and to stream health. What do these new standards actually mean? And are they really any better?
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Picture Story
The 19th-century painter Gottfried Lindauer may have painted as many as 30 versions of his famous portrait, Ana Rupene and Child. It made his career, but did little to advantage his subject.
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Hot Property
Within the substantial holdings of Auckland Museum are a number of artefacts of which the provenance is not entirely clear. A good example is a small gold Panama frog, cast around 900–1200AD in Central America, buried in a Panamanian grave, and now residing half a world away in New Zealand.
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#SundayDoco
Cities beneath the sea; are they complex urban societies that parallel our own? In this underwater documentary we travel to the Poor Knights Marine Reserve off New Zealand’s Bay of Islands to observe the four seasons of fish society at close quarters. Enjoy this week's Sundaydoco—City Under the Sea
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NZ needs to act now on rivers, top official warns
A landmark report from the ministry, released today, describes serious challenges facing the country’s rivers and outlines how fresh water is under increasing pressure from agricultural and urban areas. The report found freshwater biodiversity was declining and 72 percent of native fish were threatened or at risk of extinction.
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WHO warns of rising cases of a dangerous superbug
Microbiologists are warning there could be thousands of cases of an almost untreatable superbug infection every year in New Zealand if action isn’t taken immediately.
Listen to the 4-minute programme here
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