A team of 22 Australian, New Zealand and French scientists will depart Wellington next week, onboard NIWA’s RV Tangaroa, for a 42-day voyage to the Mertz Polynya region of Antarctica. In 2010, the ...

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano that devastated Tonga after a massive eruption on January 15 is unlikely to erupt again, say scientists from New Zealand's National Institute for Water and ...

Expedition Antarctica took to the waters of the Southern Ocean earlier this year in a 50-day voyage to survey the seas around Antarctica. On board New Zealand’s research vessel RV Tangaroa, an ...

The Tonga underwater volcano that produced a spectacular eruption in January remains astonishingly intact. A New Zealand-led team has just finished mapping the flanks of the seamount, which many ...

Researchers on a joint NZ and Australian voyage also found deep-sea sponges and a prickly shark. The scientists have just returned from four weeks aboard the Research Vessel Tangaroa collecting and ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. More than 400 new species of fish and other animals, including jelly-like creatures, have been discovered during an exploration voyage ...

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