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🌐@longreads@mastodon.world·Tuesday, March 17, 2026

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"To local tribes, the scientists’ battle recalled pākehā fighting over access to Indigenous land—one of the oldest stories in New Zealand’s history."

Sean Williams for Now Voyager: https://nowvoyagermag.com/reporting/beneath-the-long-white-cloud

#Longreads #NewZealand #Environment #History #Indigenous #Research #Science #Volcano #NaturalDisaster

nowvoyagermag.comDid New Zealand’s Pink and White Terraces Survive? The Search for the Eighth Wonder of the World — Now Voyager — A New Bimonthly Print MagazineIn 1886, a volcanic eruption buried the Pink and White Terraces in New Zealand. Now, rival scientists, Māori tribes, and a government under pressure are racing to determine whether the terraces survived beneath Lake Tarawera.nowvoyagermag.com

#longreads #newzealand #environment #history #indigenous #research #science #volcano #naturaldisaster

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