A kuia shares generational knowledge and understanding with her mokopuna. null

Meri Kirihimete from the Hub team, thank you for all your support throughout 2024. Have a wonderful festive break and see you in 2025! null

Iwi Māori believe people, plants and animals are all descendants of Ranginui and Papatūānuku and their children, which means humans are intrinsically linked with the environment....

Iwi Māori acknowledge the whakapapa (interconnectedness) and mauri of all things – mountains, rivers, rocks and even objects crafted by humans are often regarded as having...

Kawakawa has insecticidal properties. Uses include the protection of crops by burying leaves, burning leaves to produce toxic fumes and applying leaf extracts to foliage. Kawakawa...

Darwin collected this coralline algae specimen from the Southern Ocean in the early 1830s while aboard the survey vessel the Beagle. The specimen and Darwin's notes...

This image of New Zealand was taken from the Suomi NPP satellite's VIIRS instrument and was collected on 9 January 2015. null

The following resources provide te ao Māori insights regarding mātauranga and climate change. Related articles Earth systems and climate change Māori ways of knowing – weather...

The Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ produce New Zealand’s Environmental Reporting Series. Our air 2024 reports on state of Aotearoa New Zealand’s air quality...

Our air 2024 examines the pressures we place on the quality of the air we breathe and the impacts this has on our health and the...

Sea spray is generated by the breaking surface of waves. It contains a mixture of salts and organic matter – suspended as fine particulates – that...

This infographic highlights key messages in Our air 2024 – although Aotearoa New Zealand’s air quality is generally good, there are still concerns about health impacts...

Active travel – using your own energy to get to places – reduces air pollutants and greenhouse gas emissions. It’s good for personal health and for...

The dry leaves of raupō are the traditional material used for covering poi, which are then filled with the fluffy down from the seed heads. Image:...

This schematic shows how raupō responded to environmental changes during the past millennium (upper panels), informed by pollen analysis of lake sediments (lower panels). Diagram from:...

Raupō has several adaptations that allow it to grow on disturbed land. Diagram from: Li X, Newnham R, Vandergoes MJ, van den Bos V, Howarth JD,...

Raupō (Typha orientalis) is a resilient plant and acts as an ecological buffer. The plants develop distinctive flower spikes. Image sourced from iNaturalistNZ. null

The pātaka kai is a structure purposely built for food storage. The structure was adorned with specific whakairo designs that symbolised the abundance of kai and...

Exposure to high concentrations of CO2 gas can be life threatening. This graphic has some information about the toxicity of CO2 and it's dangers. null

The ClimateViz citizen science team want to make climate science accessible and understandable for all. null

Between 1994 and 2017, the Earth lost 28 trillion tonnes of ice. Source: Slater, T. et al. (2021). Review article: Earth’s ice imbalance. The Cryosphere, 15(1),...

Chart showing time-series for the United Kingdom for December for monthly mean temperature, monthly rainfall and monthly sunshine. The dotted black line shows the long-term trend....