SeaTrade is reporting that ID New Zealand’s ground operator Debbie Summers said cruise lines are changing itineraries to ports not affected by the unprecedented weather.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Thursday announced that she would be leaving her post no later than February 7, while the Labor Party is to choose a new leader in three days. Ardern came to power in 2017 with a coalition government and then led her center-left party to a sweeping victory in the 2020 elections, but her popularity and that of her party have fallen in recent polls.
The New Zealand government has anticipated a controversial farm that would tax greenhouse gases from animals with the purpose of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Allegedly it would be a first in the world and farmers should be able to recover the expense by raising the price of items that are environmentally friendly.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern hinted Sunday in London while attending Queen Elizabeth's funeral that her country might become a republic.
A group of New Zealand lawmakers mooted for the country to be renamed Aotearoa, which would much better reflect its Maori ancestry, and the Wall Street Journal has picked up on their bid this week.
Small bodies of hundreds of penguins have washed ashore on the northernmost coasts of New Zealand, and although their deaths were at first a mystery, researchers now think they understand why the kororā, or little blue penguins are dying.
Scientists from New Zealand have found an ecosystem 500 meters deep hundreds of kilometers from the edge of the Ross Sea ice shelf in Antarctica, which is inhabited by shrimp-like animals, it was reported.
The Government of New Zealand has disclosed a plan to collect a tax on cow and sheep burps from livestock production which would become the first in the world to make producers pay for their animals' emissions.
Climate change is taking its toll as the sea keeps crawling onto New Zealand's sinking coastline, halving the time authorities thought they had to take action, according to an NZ SeaRise study released earlier this week.
LATAM Airlines has resumed services to Auckland and Sydney following a 24-month interruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Chilean carrier serves the route from Santiago's Arturo Merino Benítez international airport using Boeing 787-900 aircraft three times a week.