Why Aotearoa New Zealand’s early Polynesian settlement should be recognised with World Heritage Site status

Such a project would promote traditional knowledge and intercultural dialogue, pride and understanding at local, national and global levels

How the Ice Ages spurred the evolution of New Zealand’s weird and wiry native plants

Frosty and droughty climates posed direct physiological challenges to plants, but they also left them more exposed to browsing; they thus …

‘Future studies could validate more of Thor Heyerdahl's hypotheses on the Pacific’

Down To Earth speaks to Reidar Solsvik, the curator of the Kon-Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway about a recent study in ‘Nature’ …

Climate change may have ended these 10 civilisations

Climatic changes have occurred in the past with the exception that they were not human-induced as is the case now