Nature / Sustainable Tourism

As summer draws to a close and hikers prepare to hang up their boots for the season, New Zealand is enjoying new status in the international walking community with Te Araroa – the long pathway that stretches from one end of the country to the other.

The new-generation nappy is the way forward, according to a group of New Zealand women.

Heavy snowfalls over New Zealand's North Island ski resorts on the Central Plateau might have brought chilly temperatures but scientists are more interested in a hotspot that remains in the Mt Ruapehu crater lake.

Crowds have flocked to the central north island to witness the aftermath of the eruption of one of the world’s most active volcanoes.

The New Zealand Government has announced plans to develop a research centre for climate change.

New Zealand has been chosen to host World Environment Day 2008.

A New Zealand teenager, who grew up in a town without a cinema, has had her first big film break and is in the running for the world’s most prestigious environmental movie award.

New Zealand is to take the lead in researching ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

A New Zealand scientist has won an international award for research of the Wanganui Basin.

Movie goers are taking a journey back to the Ice Age, with the help of New Zealand’s mountainous scenery.