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For shame

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

Trained observation

In first-year philosophy we chewed over the theory that humans were most interested in watching...

Photo stories

Some of the most powerful moments in this job are when I open up a...

Worth saving

Every autumn, our family give away something like 60 kilograms of feijoas, bagging the fruit...

Water world

Picture a map of New Zealand. Now delete the land. What you’re left with is...

This is why

My inbox is a world of hurt. Eels dead on beaches. Seabirds starving. Ice, melting...

Up time

There are many ways to escape. Every morning, early, I sneak out to the kitchen,...

Perception & reality

The other morning I set a deeply unimpressive personal record. The drive to work, which...

Cards on the table

The glowering duck on the cover only just made it. As we put this issue...

Better living

It is impossible to write an editorial before the rest of the magazine is finished....

Stump up

The pōhutukawa boomed last summer. Thousands of trees blooming their hearts out, ridiculous masses of...

Political science

There’s a dead end we run into again and again while documenting natural science in...

Gone fishing

Mum and Dad’s first date was in a dinghy. As soon as my brothers and...

Forward march

Acquiesce. It’s the name of an anaesthetic used to knock out tank-reared kingfish so that...

Into the blue

Of all the penguins and forests and fire and ice, the horses and high wires...

There is only one story

The other day I watched a man walk onto the bus, put down his laptop...

An unbroken line

Down in southern Te Waipounamu where I’m from, before European contact the fishing grounds had...

Teen magazine

What would lockdown have been like when you were a teen? In trying to fathom...

To higher ground

It’s 8pm in Auckland on February 13 and Cyclone Gabrielle is winding up. Over the...

Grappling with the octopus

This year, the book that won New Zealand’s richest literary prize, the $60,000 Jann Medlicott...

Give me space

Fifteen years ago, I reported on a family who had lived off the grid for...

How we tell stories

One thing about having a 33-year online archive of every New Zealand Geographic magazine—from issue...

This is an invitation…

To take part in a celebration drawn from this land. To continue a tradition going...

The art of weaving

There’s a cost to our existence. There’s coal mined to forge the steel to build...

Roads or streets?

During Auckland’s most recent lockdown, I got in the habit of going on a passeggiata....

What’s the point of journalism?

Usually, the answer to this question is something along the lines of: Holding power to...

Too much information

“Pandemics are not just mass fatality events, they are mass disabling events,” a radiologist told...

Fresh perspectives

Anyone who’s spent a night in the forest knows that after dark the bush is...

Wildlife or food?

“Whales have become wildlife, but tuna remain food,” writes author and fisher Paul Greenberg. As...

True or false?

The past year has revealed a lot about the human race and how we accumulate...

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