New Zealand pipit and pūtangitangi paradise shelduck, colonized Aotearoa at the start of the Ice Age, most likely from ...

Tucked within the glacial valleys and streams of New Zealand's Southern Alps are heaps of iron-rich dust that may help explain why Earth's climate cooled during the last ice age. Researchers ...

A map of New Zealand that I remember as a kid had a blank circle southwest of Lake Manapouri. Inside it was the word "unexplored". The map has changed but Fiordland has not. It remains rarely ...

In addition to Antarctica, New Zealand was warming at the end of the last ice age, indicating that the deep freeze up north, called the Younger Dryas for the white flower that grows near glaciers ...

New Zealand has seen equally radical shifts in habitat before – during the Ice Age, which lasted 2.6 million years and ended about 12,000 years ago. At its height, parts of the country were up ...

Between 29,000 and 19,000 years ago, New Zealand was in the grip of an ice age. Glaciers were much larger and more widespread than they are today, and the distribution of grasslands and forests ...

Researchers recently found soot preserved in Antarctic ice that they’ve linked to fires set in New Zealand by Māori settlers ... s climate since the last ice age.Credit ...