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Summer Series 2019
This is a special series of stories put out to the media over the 2019/2020 summer.
Epic spiny red rock lobster
Feature story
6 January 2020
Sam Fraser-Baxter heads to the Wairarapa for one of New Zealand’s longest-running marine surveys – counting baby lobster.
Under the Antarctic ice
Feature story
13 January 2020
The rich diversity of marine life near Scott Base in Antarctica has stunned scientists diving under the ice to set up environmental monitoring sites.
Weathering new technology in Tonga
Feature story
3 January 2020
There are about 800km between the southern and northern tips of Tonga - and a lot of ocean.
Ten years of the weather with you
Feature story
30 December 2019
In the past 10 years, more weather records have been broken than in any other time in New Zealand’s history.
The frozen menagerie
Feature story
23 December 2019
Just past the locks, alarms and big heavy doors is a rather macabre sight.