The top ten countries on the prosperity index, determined by rankings across nine key categories: Economic Quality, Natural Environment, Health, Social Capital, Personal Freedom, Safety and Security, Education, Governance, and Business...

The top ten countries on the World Giving Index, determined by a worldwide poll of three factors: helping a stranger, donating money, and volunteering. A study by the Charities Aid Foundation.

Journey 150 ft underground to witness 30,000 glowworms light up the Waitomo Caves with their luminescent silk.

New Zealand is incredible to behold. Its physical geography, mostly on the South Island, is some of the most awe inspiring in the entire world. And its for this reason, that the country has gained international fame through the likes of...

Antarctica is not like every other continent. Aside from its extreme cold and vast ice sheet, it's also the only major piece of land that has never had a human settlement rise up on it. And because of this, as it was explored in the...

On Tuesday the 22nd of February 2011 disaster struck the city of Christchurch. Why did it cause so much destruction? Earth ScienceGeology - Learning Points. New Zealand sits on a tectonic plate boundary between the Pacific plate and the...

Meet the heaviest parrot in the world: the flightless kakapo of New Zealand. Biology - Animal Kingdom - Learning Points. The kakapo is the heaviest species of parrot in the world. Kakapos cannot fly, so move around the forests of New...

Welcome to another episode of Natural World Facts! This fact file is all about the Red Deer in the series Mammals.

Every country on Earth is run by some form of government – but there are many different kinds, from autocracies and oligarchies to direct and representative democracies.

Journey 150 ft underground to witness 30,000 glowworms light up the Waitomo Caves with their luminescent silk.

In 2023 New Zealand had an election, here's the story.

The bar-tailed godwit makes the longest nonstop flight of any bird: From Alaska to New Zealand.

In some caves in New Zealand there are "glowworms," bioluminescent fungus gnat larvae that glow bright blue and catch prey in sticky webs, like a combination of wanna-be spiders and fireflies.

This video explores the raw materials from around the Empire helped fire the Industrial Revolution, this video takes a look at what was traded and with whom.

The UK House of Commons uses the first past the post voting system. This system doesn’t proportionally represent the votes cast by the population as there is only one winner in each seat. Hypothetically if one party gained 51% of the...

European explorers named a few places after Old World sites in Australasia. Here is a quick summary of the “New” names in the South Pacific.

Despite having completely different accents I’m often mistaken for an Australian. To add insult to injury the Australian constitution claims New Zealand as a state – so much for trans-Tasman diplomacy. So why is New Zealand a...

New Zealand’s small-rocket specialist is opening a second launch site in the US, and will start to challenge SpaceX in the construction and launching of large, reusable rockets.

In the recent New Zealand Election, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Labour party came away with almost a majority of the vote, but from this, they will get an absolute majority in Parliament, so how did they manage this and turn 49% into...

Three aircraft carriers from the U.S. and U.K. combined with a helicopter carrier from Japan to conduct exercises north of Taiwan in the same weekend that China made a record number of incursions into Taiwan’s air defense zone.

After Brexit the UK will be free to make it's own trade deals and establish it's own new relationships. One new union which has been discussed is the CANZUK model, bringing together the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand....

New Zealand’s Powerco power company will build a test grid that would transmit electricity through the air.

New Zealand has had a general election. The question though, was never who would be the governing party, but what would be the exact makeup of that government. In this video, we follow the story of the election campaigns and find out.

Principal Investigator Steven Wofsy of Harvard University and atmospheric scientist Paul Newman of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center sent back a video postcard of the second two legs of the Atmospheric Tomography, or ATom mission....