Science and environment
In 2024, Naomi Arnold slogged her way up Te Araroa, walking from Bluff to Cape...
Put a drone up and any self-respecting black-backed gull in the vicinity will be there...
Flora Feltham wrote an early version of our cover story when she was living on...
Science and environment
For decades, young women of New Zealand marked their late teens with ceremonies that looked...
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Issue 198
Mar - Apr 2026
Black-Backed Gulls
Meth & HIV in Fiji
Dung beetles
Centro
Rogaining
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Science and environment
First came the kina, hordes of them taking down kelp forests in shallow waters. But...
Science and environment
In the battle against this country’s rivers of poo, the dung beetle is a potentially...
Science and environment
Black-backed gulls, their messy city lives, and the people entangled with them....
Science and environment
A dispatch from Suva, where cruel epidemics are racing in parallel....
Science and environment
Fifty-nine Christmases ago, 10-year-old Andrew Penniket unwrapped a snorkel, mask and flippers. It was a...
Timelapse photography shows the tiny superstars of the world’s most famous glow-worm cave system, Waitomo,...
In our cover story last issue, we outlined the many threats facing our fur seal...
Up to six trillion climate change-fighting microbes inhabit each square metre of tree bark, according...
Anyone who’s camped in pūkeko country knows they make a heck of a lot of...
Waiapu River, a treasure of Ngāti Porou, is now known, too, for its volatility. After...
Oxygen shaped the world as we know it. It’s why we hiccup and why frogs...
Scientists who spent nine years birdwatching in Wellington ecosanctuary Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne report...
For decades, young women of New Zealand marked their late teens with ceremonies that looked...
OE McLeod with RM Briggs, CE Conway and O Ishizuka Geoscience Society of New Zealand,...
Mark Adams and Sarah Farrar, Massey University Press, $80...
Whales sing more when there’s oodles of food around, researchers have discovered. A team based...
Orchids are everywhere. New Zealand has well over 100 species; worldwide there are tens of...
What sorts of birds are you likely to see if you tackle Te Araroa? After...
The sable shearwaters of Lord Howe Island, between Australia and New Zealand in the Tasman...
Ten years ago, 22 pīwauwau, or rock wrens, went missing following a 1080 operation in...