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#WeekendRead
Carmelite nuns live in seclusion, rarely venturing from their cloister. Instead, they devote themselves to prayer and contemplation. Eighty years after it was established, a glimpse inside an Auckland monastery reveals simplicity and contentment born of another time.
Read more on the Silent Sisters from our latest issue at nzgeo.com
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A three-year recording of whales and ice
Researchers left recording devices underwater off the coast of Antarctica for three years, creating the first year-long baseline measure of maritime sounds in an ocean largely free of human activity. The closest major shipping lane was 4000 kilometres away.
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Blast from the past
Locked away for more than 140 years in the Natural History Museum in Paris, the beetle specimen had been collected by Swiss zoologist and naturalist Eduard Graeffe in Samoa before 1870. A new species of Samoan beetle has been discovered, long after it became extinct.
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#SundayDoco
Spiders have been maligned in folklore, superstition and children’s literature for centuries. To dream of them was said to signal betrayal, to see one would bring ill fortune, to kill one was to summon the wrath of nature. Yet as Spider Power reveals, the truth about these remarkable animals is stranger and more macabre than any myth or legend. Watch this week's Sundaydoco—Spider Power
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#NZGeoRadio
TRUMP OVERTURNS OBAMA CLIMATE CHANGE POLICIES
Donald Trump has signed an executive order to overturn key parts of the Obama administration’s plan to tackle global warming. The Energy Independence undoes the Clean Power Plan which required states to slash carbon emissions and cut the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget.
RARE WHALES’ CALLS HEARD FOR FIRST TIME IN COOK STRAIT
A scientist has captured the sounds of rare whales in a pioneering sound project in the Cook Strait. NIWA marine ecologist Dr Kim Goetz and her team put seven acoustic moorings – or hydrophones – in the Strait last June and, after retrieving them in December, are getting preliminary results.
COULD THE TASMANIAN TIGER STILL BE ALIVE?
The Tasmanian tiger was declared extinct in 1936 when the last known animal died in Hobart Zoo. But is it still out there…
Listen to the 3-minute programme on nzgeo.com
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