At The Kauri Museum in Matakohe, New Zealand, biologist Dr. Jonathan Palmer explains a novel approach to assessing global climate change - by analyzing the rings of ancient kauri trees. This work, ...

The country’s largest trees, kauri are threatened by dieback and climate change. But there is hope for the revered species Look out at the forest of Waitakere and you will see the skeleton of Aunt ...

Pine trees can host kauri dieback without symptoms, new research suggests. Lincoln University masters student Kai Lewis also found common pasture plants could carry the kauri-killing disease. Dr ...

NEW ZEALAND - Scientists have long speculated that Earth's magnetic field collapsed and flipped poles many eons ago, exposing our planet to cosmic rays and other galactic hazards. It's believed this ...

A kauri tree stump in the middle of an Auckland forest has offered new insights into tree communities, which could be harnessed to fight Kauri dieback, research suggests. Essentially, kauri trees ...

It sounds like something straight out of "Stranger Things," but a forest "superorganism" is keeping a nearly-dead tree stump alive. The stump of a kauri tree in New Zealand is still alive thanks to a ...

A fungus from a group that ravages trees around the world is now infesting New Zealand's ancient, symbolic kauris. Waipoua Forest Trust One of the world's oldest and largest living trees stands just a ...

May 19, 2020 — On a weekend in March 2019, Victoria University of Wellington microbiologist Monica Gerth stepped up to a microphone in a large white tent in Waipoua Forest, some 90 miles (140 ...

Dogs are able to detect kauri dieback in seconds rather than weeks, greatly speeding up diagnosis New Zealand is deploying dogs to sniff out a deadly disease that is causing havoc to ancient kauri ...