This island country is most concerned with its beaches and oceans when climate change comes up. I am currently in a Marine Ecology class, and much of what we are studying also ties into the impacts of ocean warming – fishery collapse, food web alteration, habitat change, stratification, and weather. Sea level rise is also […]

The first humans moved to New Zealand (Aotearoa in Te Reo Māori) just under 800 years ago, traveling from Polynesia in canoes to settle here. Compared to the lengths of time humans have been living on other continents, Aotearoa is very newly colonized. This combined with the relatively small population and strict conservation laws has […]

#2: 3/6/25 Sit spot: Backyard garden behind my flat 3:30pm  New Zealand’s indigenous peoples, or Māori people, consider water to be the foundation of all life. At a museum I was at a few weeks ago, there was an exhibit about those who fought in the New Zealand wars. At the end of the exhibit, […]