The scientific consensus is that the Earth’s climate is warming – largely through greenhouse gas emissions due to human activity. ...
In part one of this three-part webinar series, Associate Professor Chris Eames explains the key science ideas we need to ...
Climate change is one of the world’s big issues. It is also a big topic to tackle in the classroom. ...
Aotearoa New Zealand’s natural environment has been shaped by climate. It has influenced both the physical environment and the plants ...
In February 2025, the world hit a new low for global sea ice extent. Arctic sea ice has been declining for several decades now, but Antarctic ...
This resource contains kuputaka Māori mo āhuarangi hurihuri a hurihanga waro – reo Māori words associated with climate change and the carbon cycle. Māori developed detailed ...
Climate literacy as well as basic scientific literacy are needed to understand the complexity of Earth systems and climate change. Knowledge of key vocabulary, scientific symbols ...
Science Education: Fit for Purpose was a national summit co-hosted on 2 July 2024 in Auckland by the Science Learning Hub Pokapū Akoranga Pūtaiao and Royal ...
Young people are facing a future of complex environmental challenges. How can we prepare them to save the world when older generations haven’t? Young people need ...
Milly Grant-Mackie is a coastal geomorphologist. Her work includes climate change impacts such as sea-level rise and whānau-level research. Milly Grant-Mackie (Te Rarawa, Ngāti Kahu ki ...
Rocks act as geological archives and new techniques are helping scientists capture data about past events. This article has been republished from The Conversation under Creative ...
Aotearoa New Zealand’s limestone caves are special places. To many Māori, they are tapu. To explorers and thrill seekers, they are a great place for an ...
Could 2023 mark a significant decline for Antarctic sea ice? Find out more about the trends of changes in sea ice, and the crucial role that ...
Aotearoa New Zealand is home to an amazing diversity of living things, many of which are endemic – only found here. Nowhere else on the planet ...
The Earth is a dynamic system – a combination of interrelated, interacting parts that form a collective entity. From a scientific point of view, the Earth ...
Our atmosphere and climate 2023 – an environmental report produced by the Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ – begins with this whakatauākī: Tiakina te ...
What are the irreversible changes we could be facing if we fail to keep global warming below 2℃ and what actions can we take? This article ...
This article has been republished from The Conversation under Creative Commons licence CC BY-ND 4.0 and is written by Dr Angela (Ang) McGaughran, Senior Lecturer in ...
A more precise timeline now shows Aotearoa was first settled in the North Island before the settlers expanded south and then retreated again when the climate ...
Seeds are part of most plant life cycles. Seed-producing plants and the seeds they produce provide resources for humans and other living things. These include food ...
One of New Zealand’s iconic moa species was almost wiped out during the last ice age according to recently published research. DNA from ancient eastern moa ...
Methane comprises just 0.00018% of the Earth’s atmosphere – so why are we concerned about it? Dr Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher explains how the majority of methane emissions ...
In order to reduce methane emissions, we need to know where they come from. Methane, like other greenhouse gases, is invisible to human eyes – so ...
MethaneSAT is Aotearoa New Zealand’s first government-funded space mission. It is a joint American-New Zealand collaboration to detect methane emissions. The goal is to use data ...
Ururangi is a whetū in the Matariki cluster. It is connected to atmospheric conditions, winds and the sky. Ururangi means ‘winds of the sky’ and is ...
Waipunarangi is a whetū in the Matariki cluster. It is the star connected to the rains and other atmospheric conditions. Waipunarangi – water that pools in ...
We hear a lot about the role of terrestrial forests in climate change, but what about the ocean’s forests? It’s amazing to think that a kelp ...
Green rolling hills studded with fluffy white sheep is an image New Zealand has traded on for decades, both to promote our wool and meat and ...
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