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The big one
At 3.24am on Sunday morning, a 5.5-magnitude earthquake struck Fiordland near Big Bay, reinvigorating calls to prepare for a quake along the Alpine Fault.
The Alpine Fault ruptures—on average—every 330 years with a magnitude 8 earthquake. Geologists and authorities are racing to quantify what might happen, and how they might respond in the event of the next one, likely to occur some time in the next 50 years.
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Empires of the sun
When the sun takes a hiatus to the northern hemisphere, it’s tempting to follow… but where?
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Visit the godwits from your armchair...
New Zealand Geographic's NZVR Project lets you travel through New Zealand's wild places using virtual reality on any phone, tablet or desktop computer. Glide with stingrays at the Poor Knights, swim through swaying sargassum weed at the Three Kings, dive with pilot whales off the edge of the continental shelf, explore the shallows of Parengarenga Harbour, experience the charms and challenges of the Hauraki Gulf... even swim with humpback whales in Niue!
Production was funded by Foundation North's Gulf Innovation Fund Together (GIFT), NZonAir and supported by partners WWF and Sir Peter Blake Trust.
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1080 BLACKMAILER JAILED FOR FIVE YEARS
The Department of Conservation says it hopes a five-year jail sentence handed down to a Taranaki man who sent threatening letters to its staff will act as a deterrent to others.
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