The Gobi is the great desert that extends along southern Mongolia and northern China. Its northern extent is marked by a series …

When I was a novice geology student, the world appeared kind of simple. Faced with a rock, I could ask myself the most …

We set up ‘camp’ at the base of Mongolia’s ‘White Doors’ — a gap in a massive outcrop of vertically-tilted limestone. ‘Camp’ …

Don’t get me wrong – Christian virtues (the teachings of JC) are admirable. I was brought-up going to ‘Sunday School’ and I …

There was a time when I threatened myself to start teaching the ecology of Middle-earth. I helped take a couple of trips …

Cut back to the late 1970s – I was a schoolboy and had found my way into the Burnside Marl Pit, Dunedin …

I own a little patch of bush in the Haast, on the wet, West Coast of New Zealand. It was selectively logged …

The fern Cladophlebis is probably the single-most common plant fossil in the New Zealand Jurassic. It’s present in virtually every plant fossil …

Has New Zealand recently entered an entirely new period of time? You may have caught up with the proposal that the world …

I’ve long found New Zealand’s black pine, the matai (Prumnopitys taxifolia) to be a special tree. From a dishevelled juvenile, It can …