The perfect place to see a volcano erupt is high in the banyan treetops of Vanuatu, writes Peter de Graaf.

A 7.1 magnitude earthquake has struck about 46km northeast of Port Olry in Vanuatu.

A New Zealander living in Vanuatu has appeared in court today facing charges for murdering a local man in what police describe as a vicious, drunken fight over a girl.

A newly married Muslim couple are sharing their wedding gifts with the people of Vanuatu, hoping to set up a sustainable water pump in a remote island village.

Diana Balham comes face to face with a very angry - but very pretty - volcano on the Vanuatu island of Tanna.

Good food, waterfalls and gorgeous beaches are great reasons to visit Vanuatu, writes Megan Singleton.

The Ministry for the Environment has released figures showing that carbon pollution, which New Zealand is adding to, increased 42 per cent globally.

A woman behind a quilt drive for victims of Cyclone Pam will deliver more than 700 blankets to Vanuatu when she arrives at the devastated island nation on Saturday.

Further New Zealand aid has arrived in Vanuatu to help in the aftermath of Cyclone Pam.

The death toll from the "monster storm" has risen to 16 and aid agencies have begun a measles vaccination campaign to contain the virus.

A week on from Cyclone Pam some sense of normality has returned - at least in the capital, Port Vila.

A Red Cross leader labelled Polyfest 'cold and mean-spirited' after it initially refused to let the charity collect at the event for Pacific victims of Cyclone Pam.

It was a tale of two villages. In one, rice, food and water provided by aid agencies, in another, nothing at all.

The deputy chairman of Vanuatu's natural disaster committee has launched a stinging attack on NGOs in the cyclone-struck nation.

New Zealand aid worker Andrew Finlay takes Kirsty Johnston around the island of Tanna, where the destruction is wholesale.

The threat of disease from dirty water has affected "absolutely everybody" in Vanuatu in the wake of Cyclone Pam.

Doctors at the hospital performed an emergency caesarean in the middle of the cyclone - and delivered a baby they named Pamela.

Families in Vanuatu have returned to their homes only to find the nightmare of Cyclone Pam isn't over.

Cyclone-torn Vanuatu is in desperate need of food, clothing, medicine and basic shelter - and a full recovery operation could cost hundreds of millions.

A Bay of Plenty skipper who had not been heard from since Cyclone Pam hit has phoned home to his family, safe and well in Vanuatu.

New Zealanders in Vanuatu have been drafted in to help at the capital's main hospital after it was ravaged by Cyclone Pam.

Kiwi Kylie Steel was in Port Vila when the cyclone struck. After the cyclone passed she went in search of friends. Here's her story.

Dozens are feared dead on Vanuatu and up to 10,000 are homeless in the wake of Cyclone Pam.

Many residents in Vanuatu were forced to hunker down for a second night in emergency shelters after venturing out yesterday to find their homes damaged or blown away, aid workers say.

NZ newlyweds have spent the last night of their honeymoon bunkered in a room with 230 other scared tourists as Cyclone Pam lashed Vanuatu.

The grandson of the last cannibal in Vanuatu shares his family's extraordinary story with an astonished Diana Balham.

Kiwi Simon Turner took toasting marshmallows to the extreme this week when he threw his rod out over an active lava lake inside Marcum Crater in Ambrym, Vanuatu.