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Weather tracker: Auckland hit by wettest January on record

High temperatures allow more moisture to be held in atmosphere, with Westport in South Island recording its hottest day

The Guardian - UK

‘Binge rainfall’ sends New Zealanders’ summer plans down the drain

While rainfall has been below average across the South Island, unusually wet patterns across the north have scuppered post-Christmas holidays

The Guardian - AU

New Zealand's southern waters experiencing marine heatwave

Waters around New Zealand’s South Island are as much as 6 degrees Celsius (42.8 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than normal due to climate change, the weather phenomenon La Nina and a series of high pressure systems, according to scientists.

Reuters

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Serafina Tane grew up in the Camp David religious cult. This is what it felt like to leave

Serafina Tane was born into a religious cult on New Zealand's South Island. When she left, she discovered a life without religious rules was more complicated than she had imagined.

ABC News

Big opportunity, little interest: New Zealand struggles to fill dream job protecting wildlife

The Department of Conservation is looking for a biodiversity supervisor on the wild, remote coast of the South Island, a Unesco world heritage site

The Guardian - AU

There’s gold under them thar ruins

Australian company Federation Mining is intent on exploiting a potential “jeweller’s shop” of undiscovered gold beneath the site of abandoned South Island workings.

Newsroom.co.nz

Iwi extends health care to Pākehā

As mainstream health services struggle to meet demand, a Ngāi Tahu initiative on the South Island’s West Coast is seeing treatment offered to all comers.

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Residents turn backs on sea wall

Government funding for an unwanted barrier on the South Island’s wild West Coast should be spent elsewhere property owners say.

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Five dead after 'whale overturns small boat' off coast of New Zealand

Five people have died after a boat capsized off the coast of New Zealand - with investigations into whether it was overturned after a collision with a whale. Six people managed to survive the incident, near the South Island region of Kaikoura, on Sa

Irish Mirror

Five killed in NZ boat accident

Five people died in New Zealand on Saturday when a boat carrying 11 capsized off Kaikoura, a coastal town on the South Island, according to police.

Bangkok Post

Five dead after boat capsizes off New Zealand coast - police

Five people died in New Zealand on Saturday when a boat carrying 11 capsized off Kaikoura, a coastal town on South Island, according to police.

Reuters

Five dead in New Zealand after possible whale collision capsizes boat

Six people rescued after vessel with 11 aboard overturns off Goose Bay near Kaikoura in South Island

The Guardian - AU

New Zealand faces 'big task' in recovering from heavy rains, floods

New Zealand retained a state of emergency in parts of its flood-battered South Island on Sunday as authorities weighed damage in the region hardest hit by four days of torrential rain.

Reuters

New Zealand floods: hundreds evacuate as ‘atmospheric river’ brings deluge

A third straight day of rain has brought flooding, landslips and road closure to both the North and South islands

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Torrential rains lash New Zealand for 3rd day, hundreds evacuate homes

Torrential rain slammed the west and north of New Zealand's South Island for a third straight day on Thursday, forcing hundreds to evacuate their homes and triggering road and school closures and land slips.

Reuters

Torrential New Zealand rains, floods force evacuation of 200 homes

Torrential rains hit New Zealand's South Island on Wednesday, flooding rivers, houses and roads and forcing roughly 200 households to evacuate, media reported.

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Council scrambles after poor staff survey

The South Island’s biggest council suffers a second straight poor survey result – this time from its staff.

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‘Wet Coast’ cow cockies say ‘get off the grass’ to new rules

When new stock wintering rules designed to protect waterways were imposed on a century-old South Island dairying property, the owners bet their nest egg to build an enormous barn.

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NZ rescuers can't reach plane crash site

Severe gales on New Zealand's South Island mean rescuers cannot reach the site of a light plane crash in the Southern Alps.

The Conversation

Meteors seem to be raining down on New Zealand, but why are some bright green?

New Zealand may seem to be under meteor bombardment at the moment. After a huge meteor exploded above the sea near Wellington on July 7, creating a sonic boom that could be heard across the bottom of the South Island, a smaller fireball was captured two weeks later above Canterbury.

Newsroom.co.nz

The crowd goes wildish

Wellington poets storm the South Island

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$10 million more for flood-wracked Buller

As the South Island’s “We(s)t” Coast continues to live up to its name, the flow of public money for keeping the locals dry is unabated.

The Conversation

How did ancient moa survive the ice age – and what can they teach us about modern climate change?

One species of iconic moa was almost wiped out during the last ice age, according to recently published research. But a small population survived in a modest patch of forest at the bottom of New Zealand’s South Island, and rapidly spread back up its east coast once the climate began…

Newsroom.co.nz

A big change for the high country and the environment

A new law aims for sustainable management of the South Island’s much-loved high country. Dr Mick Strack explains why we should give it a chance

Tribune News Service

Travel to New Zealand now and have it practically to yourself

New Zealand throwing open its borders after more than two years — and there may never be a better time to visit.

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