A massive earthquake of magnitude 7 sent tremors off the coast of Riverton in New Zealand on Tuesday, said the United States ...

When scientists in New Zealand checked the footage from an underwater camera, they expected to see a variety of fish and some sharks, and they did. But, much to their surprise, they had also recorded ...

Rising sea levels are a threat to coastal regions everywhere, but especially for islands. No example stands out more than the South Pacific nation of Tuvalu. But as Kathleen Schuster reports from our ...

"We've only seen a white shark once before during our surveys, at the Kermadec Islands, the other end of New Zealand." DOC senior ranger Richard Kinsey said the survey allowed researchers to compare ...

New Zealand as the Lord of the Rings filming location also inspired the name Gandalfus for a genus of blind crabs first found in the underwater volcanoes around New Zealand’s Kermadec Islands [PDF].

Isabel van Brugen is a Newsweek Reporter based in Kuala Lumpur. Her focus is reporting on the Russia-Ukraine war. Isabel joined Newsweek in 2021 and had previously worked with news outlets ...

but geologists estimate that the new island could last several years. Unlike previous ones, this formation is characterized by effusive flows that create material more resistant to erosion. Located in ...

Since then, he has captained more than a dozen voyages, including trips to Rapa Nui, one of the most isolated islands in the world, and stops on the “Malama Honua Worldwide Voyage” from 2014 ...

Valentin Denieul has been training to be a flâneur—a wandering observer—since he was a kid growing up on Île Saint-Louis, the smaller of the two natural islands that rest like stepping ...