Mt. Taranaki and its surrounding national park will enjoy all the rights and responsibilities of a person under a recent law ...

A mountain in New Zealand is considered to be an ancestor by Indigenous people and has been recognized as a legal person. A new law granted it all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. HPR ...

The legal recognition acknowledges the mountain’s theft from the Māori of the Taranaki region after New Zealand was colonized ...

The pristine, snow-capped dormant volcano is the second highest on New Zealand's North Island at 2,518 meters (8,261 feet) and a popular spot for tourism, hiking and snow sports.

With wrinkly skin that comes in various shades of brown, eastern hellbenders aren’t easy to spot. These giant salamanders, which average 20 inches in length, spend most of their lives nearly ...

Many who buy often flock to big name ski resorts in Colorado, Utah, or California, seeking big mountains and west coast powder. But there are many large and often less crowded hills across New ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand is reconsidering all development funding to the aid-dependent island nation of Kiribati, following a diplomatic snub from the island nation’s leader ...

A fast-moving wildfire broke out in the mountains north of Los Angeles and ripped through ... said he will travel to the city on Friday. As the new fire raged in Castaic, the Eaton and Palisades ...

More than 50,000 people were under evacuation orders or warnings Wednesday as a huge wildfire swept through rugged mountains north of Los Angeles ... fires have settled, new challenges lie ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Evacuations were ordered on Wednesday for remote communities near a new wind-driven wildfire in mountains north of Los Angeles, as Southern California endured more dangerous ...

After every five years, researchers revise the WMM by resetting the official position of magnetic north and introducing new predictions ... it reached Prince Wales Island, and by 2000 it had ...