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The eruption detection system on Mount Ruapehu is designed to quickly warn people on the Whakapapa ski field to move to high ground out of the path of dangerous lahars

A series of earthquakes have been detected near White Island in the Bay of Plenty this morning. The largest had a magnitude of 3.3 and all were at a depth of less than 10 kilometres.

Students from Aranui High Scool discuss Antarctica's role in the world's climate with scientists whose research is part of the Antarctic Time Travel exhibition

After nearly 20 years of use the volcanic hazard alert system for New Zealand has been revised to make it simpler and more informative

An Australian soldier has died after falling down a crevasse on Aoraki-Mount Cook during a training exercise, while a big slip has damaged a hut on the South Island mountain. Audio

A tribute to Joan Wiffen, a self-taught palaeontologist who discovered New Zealand's first dinosaur bone in a Hawke's Bay streambed in the 1970s.

Tsunami hazards for New Zealand were recently revised based on new knowledge about very large earthquakes on plate boundaries

Only about 120 kakabeak plants survive in the wild, but the Forest Lifeforce Restoration Trust hopes to increase numbers in the Hawke's Bay.

Residents of Murapara in Bay of Plenty may have felt a jolt fromin the early hours of Wednesday morning. Earlier, a 3.7 tremor was recorded near Seddon.

GNS Science says the earthquake in Chile triggered multiple small tsunamis around New Zealand. Duty seismologist Lara Bland says a tsunami travelled across the Pacific and reached New Zealand shores…

GNS Science palaeontologists head on a fieldtrip in the area when fossil hunter Joan Wiffen found her first dinosaur fossils 40 years ago.

Auckland has been judged to have such a low earthquake risk that no quake-related deaths are considered likely within the next 100 years.