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Two days in the forest of nightmares

In 2024, Naomi Arnold slogged her way up Te Araroa, walking from Bluff to Cape...

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

Mar - Apr 2026

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

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Issue 198 Mar - Apr 2026

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When black-backs attack

A whole year of tourists giving glow-worms little frights

On tree bark, a vast new army of climate...

Gull spotting

To distant shores

Fur seals on the rocks

“Bup, squeek, brumm, drr”

Ivory Lake Hut

Life in the dying city

Two years on Mana Island

We’d like to know what you think of NZGeo....

Walk on water

The new global superpower? Seaweed.

Dig in  

A delicious crayfish circle of life

Science and environment

The lacemaker

In the studio with textile artist Rowan Panther...

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Science and environment

Choose your own adventure

A diabolical gamemaker scatters 85 flags across the Pisa Range. He assigns each flag a...

Science and environment

The rock eaters

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

Science and environment

Pushing it uphill

In the battle against this country’s rivers of poo, the dung beetle is a potentially...

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....

Before the flood

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

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...

The weight of what we’ve lost

Since the 1850s, two per cent of marine mammal species have gone extinct. But if...

Two years

On the road before the clean running of an EV makes up for the emissions...

Want native birds? This fuchsia is by far your best bet

Scientists who spent nine years birdwatching in Wellington ecosanctuary Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne report...

A single tiny bone suggests bowerbirds once lived in Aotearoa

The bone belonged to a songbird, but it didn’t belong to any existing New Zealand...

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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