Mount Taranaki in New Zealand is legally a person, enjoying all the rights and responsibilities of a human being. The move ...

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

New Zealand's volcanic geological heritage is still quite evident across its landscape today, particularly in the numerous active volcanoes that still dot the country (including the terrifying ...

Standing at 2,518 meters (8,261 feet), the mountain is located on New Zealand's North Island, and is a dormant volcano ...

Move over, humans—New Zealand's iconic Taranaki Mounga just got the same legal rights as you! In a groundbreaking move, the ...

An Auckland eruption would likely send slow-moving rivers of lava flowing through the city – so scientists have been looking for lessons from a recent disaster in Spain’s Canary Islands. While its 53 ...

First Person - RNZ Pacific reporter, Iliesa Tora, reflects on the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcanic eruption, saying people ...

A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by Indigenous people has been recognised as a legal person after a new law ...

Researchers have discovered the origins of a 200-year-old volcanic eruption that ejected so much sulfur into the atmosphere that it changed the climate and made the sun look blue. In 1831 ...

An undersea volcano off Oregon’s coast will likely erupt in 2025, scientists say. Known as Axial Seamount, it’s the most active volcano in the Pacific Northwest — though one most people ...