Vanishing into something better

Mary Oliver showed us how to look at what’s around us....

To love a land

From head to heart in 30 years....

A soul-force of courage

Eugene Smith and the power of photojournalism....

A flash of fire

There are some striking differences in the names that we bestow....

Good grief

What we can learn from albatrosses....

Singing up country

The centrality of stories in human experience....

Blunder on Mt Zorro

The politics of a Hawke’s Bay landmark....

Timber or taonga

An inheritance passed down across centuries....

Down under

Sometimes, the world comes to you....

Stone on stone

The legacy of a life....

Switch and bait

In determining priorities—or simply making sense—the order matters....

How lucky we are

One of our national traits could guide our environmental decisions....

River language

Can a river speak, and, if so, are we listening?...

The case for Parihaka Day

Should we ditch Guy Fawkes and celebrate Te Whiti instead?...

Rare species can’t wait

Lessons from a big booming budgerigar....

The Kermadecs conundrum

The government’s failure to consult the Maori fisheries agency over the Kermadec Ocean Sanctuary was bad politics and bad conservation....

A Gulf in my thinking

Guardianship and the mother of the sea....

To have and to hold

Do we want a relationship with the sea, or merely to appropriate its resources?...

Climate rationality on trial

When did New Zealand’s foreign policy get so feeble?...

Uncle Tangaroa and the mokopuna

Are we selling future generations down the river?...

Magazine

Issue 200

Jul - Aug 2026

Solar power
Horses of Huntly
Forget me not
Whaling
Red admirals

Issue 200 Jul - Aug 2026

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The age of fossil fuels is ending, and the world is entering the era of solar power. What matters now is how fast we make the shift....
When a male South Island robin is in want of a mate, he sings. It’s not a glamorous sound, says ecologist Manaia Pearmain-Fenton. Plee plee plee / chee chee chee. Loud, plinky, like a kid picking at a keyboard. Pearmain-Fenton has whakapapa to Ngāti Hokopū, Ngāti Awa and Te Whakatōhea in the Bay of Plenty. […]...
Something strange is happening inside the Sun. In the last 40 years, the pattern of tiny sound waves produced deep beneath the surface of our star has mysteriously changed, say scientists reporting in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. This solar activity fluctuates in intensity in reliable 11-year cycles, at times driving solar […]...
Derek Morrison photographs Dunedin’s most celebrated citizens: the dozens of sea lions making themselves at home in gardens, golf courses, and fish and chip shops....
Tararua Forest Park, 2 days...
When the forecast is just right, Irene and Crispin Middleton wake up in the middle of the night and put to sea....
In 1889, Thomas Ward proposed something unique for the capital city: a really, really, really good map....
Fifteen years after kakaruwai were brought to Dunedin’s Orokonui Ecosanctuary, a new study shows the tiny robins are doing so well that they have booked up every bit of real estate and are now kicking juveniles into the surrounding bush. Researchers counted at least 23 of the friendly birds living up to 1.5 kilometres outside […]...
The blast of the harpoon may have given way to the click of the camera, but whales are still the cornerstone of commerce—and the subject of many a decorative mural—in the north Canterbury town of Kaikoura. In little more than a decade, marine ecotourism has transformed a coastal backwater into an international travel hotspot....
Jack Kirifi, Mila’s Books, $30...

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