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, ...

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 ...

Recently, Alistair Goodwin wrote an opinion piece for Stuff entitled The kauri dieback dilemma: Why our native trees will be fine. As researchers working on kauri dieback, we feel it is necessary to ...

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 ...

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 ...

In an ancient grove in northern New Zealand, the mighty conifer known as Tāne Mahuta, lord of the forest, is threatened by the encroachment of a deadly enemy. It is the largest kauri tree known to be ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An ancient tree that contains a record of a reversal of Earth's ...

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 ...