Step aside, golden beaches – now we have stretches of sand glimmering with real pieces of gold. Scientists have captured the ...

almost 40,000 Kiwis banded together to buy the beach from a private entity for more than $2 million and donated it to New Zealand's Department of Conservation. Kayak or paddleboard the crystal ...

have been discovered along New Zealand's South Island beaches in remarkable detail. Using electron microscopes, researchers have created the world's first comprehensive atlas of beach gold ...

It’s a brisk early morning at Piha’s North Beach in Auckland ... a conservation worker says. “In New Zealand, we’ve got a lot of awesome native species that we want to protect, and ...

The Abel Tasman is New Zealand’s most popular walk. With its temperate climate, strangely sculpted boulder formations, jade-colored ocean, and golden beaches, it’s easy to understand why.