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Clean, fresh, clear water is the essence of life, and New Zealand has it in bucket loads – for drinking, washing, swimming, fishing, boating, irrigating and hydroelectricity...

Large-scale arable farming has been made possible by new technology. In the late 19th century it took hundreds of workers to harvest a large wheat crop, but today it can be...

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Polynesians brought kūmara, taro and dogs to New Zealand. Later, acclimatisation societies hoped to improve upon nature – they shipped animals from Britain and stocked...

New Zealand has only 11 known native species of ant – by comparison, Australia has about 1,200. The most common is the southern ant, which gathers and stores plant seeds...

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Governments breached the Treaty of Waitangi almost from the time it was signed in 1840. In the late 20th century many of these breaches...