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If you thought human birth was seriously twisted, get a load of the Mount Augustus snail from New Zealand. This giant ...
New Zealand’s deputy prime minister said on Friday that talks over a free trade agreement between his country and India were ongoing, but he didn’t provide a timeline for ...
A study published in Ecology Letters reveals that extreme drought conditions are altering the stability of grassland ...
Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.
Starting from the country’s main gateways, such as Auckland and Christchurch, these road trips offer the best chance to ...
Ease of management is the driver for a family farm in east Devon to leave the job of rearing heifer replacements to the cows ...
The strange reproductive habits of a large, carnivorous New Zealand snail called the Powelliphanta augusta snailwere once ...
To stem those losses, a new initiative is helping ranchers restore the large swaths of prairie where they graze cattle. The cows themselves are one of the best tools for renewing grasslands. Rotating ...
The giant moa, taller than a giraffe and truly wingless, was New Zealand’s towering bird that vanished shortly after human ...
Over the past 40 years, the government has transformed New Zealand from an agrarian economy, dependent on concessionary British market access, to a more industrialized, free market economy that ...
The Blank Foundation's grassland-focused grants are part of a new initiative begun last year to reduce climate-fueling emissions. "One of the ways we’re doing that is by increasing the ...
There’s a new focus on protecting biodiversity in native prairie grasslands in southwestern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta. It’s coming in the form of new “key biodiversity area” designations, ...