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Science and environment

The new global superpower? Seaweed.

Solutions to some of our most pressing problems have been waving at us from under...

Gull spotting

Fancy a fossick at the tip?...

For shame

While editing Sarah Newey and Simon Townsley’s feature story about the surge of methamphetamine and...

When black-backs attack

Put a drone up and any self-respecting black-backed gull in the vicinity will be there...

Two years on Mana Island

Flora Feltham wrote an early version of our cover story when she was living on...

Science and environment

A lady’s debut

For decades, young women of New Zealand marked their late teens with ceremonies that looked...

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Issue 198

Black-Backed Gulls
Meth & HIV in Fiji
Dung beetles
Centro
Rogaining

Issue 198 Mar - Apr 2026

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Treasure hunt

A matter of principles

Home on the range

For shame

A delicious crayfish circle of life

Choose your own adventure

Pushing it uphill

Gull spotting

What is the hullabaloo about the Hauraki Gulf, and...

Science and environment

The lacemaker

In the studio with textile artist Rowan Panther...

Archive

Science and environment

The rock eaters

First came the kina, hordes of them taking down kelp forests in shallow waters. But...

Science and environment

Bogans of the sky

Black-backed gulls, their messy city lives, and the people entangled with them....

Science and environment

In Fiji, a wave of meth, HIV and shame

A dispatch from Suva, where cruel epidemics are racing in parallel....

Science and environment

All that you can see is blue

Fifty-nine Christmases ago, 10-year-old Andrew Penniket unwrapped a snorkel, mask and flippers. It was a...

Science and environment

“It’s just you and your dog.”

Every year, the finest sheep dogs and handlers in New Zealand and Australia compete for...

Fur seals on the rocks

In our cover story last issue, we outlined the many threats facing our fur seal...

On tree bark, a vast new army of climate allies

Up to six trillion climate change-fighting microbes inhabit each square metre of tree bark, according...

“Bup, squeek, brumm, drr”

Anyone who’s camped in pūkeko country knows they make a heck of a lot of...

Before the flood

Waiapu River, a treasure of Ngāti Porou, is now known, too, for its volatility. After...

A whole year of tourists giving glow-worms little frights

Timelapse photography shows the tiny superstars of the world’s most famous glow-worm cave system, Waitomo,...

Every breath you take

Oxygen shaped the world as we know it. It’s why we hiccup and why frogs...

How to renovate the trashed seafloor? Start with fake horse mussels

Horse mussels are massive. Given a chance, the shellfish can grow to almost half a...

A lady’s debut

For decades, young women of New Zealand marked their late teens with ceremonies that looked...

Geology of Karioi Volcano, Aotearoa New Zealand: Geological Map

OE McLeod with RM Briggs, CE Conway and O Ishizuka Geoscience Society of New Zealand,...

Mark Adams: A survey—He kohinga whakaahua

Mark Adams and Sarah Farrar, Massey University Press, $80...

Food music

Whales sing more when there’s oodles of food around, researchers have discovered. A team based...

Pattern recognition

How Tara Viggo fled fast fashion and cut herself a new career....

For seabird chicks, eating plastic takes an insidious toll

The sable shearwaters of Lord Howe Island, between Australia and New Zealand in the Tasman...

Rock on

Ten years ago, 22 pīwauwau, or rock wrens, went missing following a 1080 operation in...

Dust to dust

Remember the sky on New Year’s Day of 2020? Across the South Island the air...

The elephant has left the room

These days, it’s rare to spot a southern elephant seal in New Zealand. These hefty...

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