From pollinating plants to dispersing seeds, birds play a variety of crucial roles that help to keep ecosystems in balance.

Home to the mighty kauri trees, this forest feels like a scene straight out of Middle-earth. The ancient Tane Mahuta, the largest kauri tree, is a whopping 2,500 years old.

The annual growth rings of an ancient kauri tree discovered in Aotearoa New Zealand reveal significant change in the Earth's atmosphere approximately 42,000 years ago.

Award-winning special effects and prop company Wētā Workshop Ltd has created a scale model of a mature kauri tree for Waikato Regional Council to help spread the message about protecting kauri ...

Maori step in to save sacred tree New Zealand too slow to act against deadly disease, leaders say by The New York Times | March 13, 2022 at 3:53 a.m.

Tāne Mahuta, an ancient tree named after the god of forests in Māori mythology, is threatened by the slow creep of an incurable disease. Tourists visiting Tāne Mahuta, the largest known kauri ...

What a 1,600-year-old New Zealand tree can tell us about climate change Buried in mud for millennia, some of the hulking kauri trees in rural Northland are portals to the past, present, and future ...

It's believed this event caused a shift in climate that lasted 500 years. Researchers have now pieced this story together - after a nearly 50,000-year-old kauri tree was unearthed.

A new international study using ancient swamp kauri from Northland shows a temporary breakdown of Earth’s magnetic field 42,000 years ago sparked major climate shifts leading to global ...

This mature kauri tree at Whangārei Hospital was cut down by a man who used the cover of Wednesday night's storm. Under cover of darkness and howling wind and rain from a storm the vandal struck.