Boy wonder

A night in the garden with entomologist Luca Nikkel....

Feeling fairly okay about the fuel crisis?

“It won’t sort itself out,” warns energy expert Nathan Surendran....

The lacemaker

In the studio with textile artist Rowan Panther...

How to stand alone

King’s Counsel Sally Gepp on the frustrating, high stakes, necessary work of environmental law....

Good dogs

Because of Willy Marsh, hundreds of dogs are choosing not to chase kiwi and penguins....

The tripmakers

Together, Cameron Lacey and Marie Crowe are delivering a New Zealand-first therapy: psilocybin, the hallucinogen found in magic mushrooms....

Truth and power

Karlo Mila builds poetry from data and documents....

Pattern recognition

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

The plant hunter

For Jay Kuethe, there’s just something about Passiflora....

A sense of sham

From retirement, David Bimler has embarked on a second career: exposing fraudulent research....

The voyager

How building a traditional vaka, and navigating like her ancestors, led Ana Maine home....

Net gains

Terressa Shandley Kollat’s a star on TikTok—but she’s much more at home in the water....

Homecooked science

When Jennifer Bannister was growing up, girls were secretaries, or teachers, or nurses. She persevered....

Let it go

How soprano Madeleine Pierard found her voice....

Eating up

To help her people thrive, health scientist Amy Maslen-Miller first wants to give them a seat at the table....

Kids in mud

Auckland dad Harry Scott (Ngāi Tahu) teaches outdoor ed to young kids—although, really, they’re teaching themselves....

A life in care

How Hartley Holder founded the only guinea pig rescue in the country....

Metamorphosis

A tattoo artist traces his history—and his future....

In Love With the Weeds

Taxonomist Roberta D’Archino is finding and cataloguing our marine flora, one dive at a time....

A dissection

In her last years of high school, Cadence Chung wrote a book of poems, a musical, and a high-profile complaint to the New Zealand Qualifications Authority. Two years on, she’s also told the backstory....

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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When the forecast is just right, Irene and Crispin Middleton wake up in the middle of the night and put to sea....
Tararua Forest Park, 2 days...
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....
The Paparoa Track, set to open in September 2019, is the first new Great Walk in 25 years, and the first built for shared use between walkers and cyclists. Traversing the coal-rich hills between Blackball and Punakaiki, it will pay its respects to the 29 men who lost their lives in the Pike River Mine....
As we honour and mourn those lost in the Pike River tragedy, we also consider the future of underground coal mining in New Zealand....
ICE. At one extreme, it is the humble cube which puts the clink in your drink on a hot summer’s afternoon. At the other, it is a major cog in the engine which drives the world’s weather. Further­more, its behaviour over the ages may have played a pivotal role in human evolution. At the heart […]...
New Zealand takes its first refugees....
Belly flopping frogs...
For decades, the extinct endemic bird known as the Hodgens’ Waterhen has flummoxed taxonomists—since the first fossils were found in 1955 the flightless species, which favoured swamps and grasslands, has bounced between six different genera. But mitochondrial DNA has now settled things: the bird is a gigantic crake, five times bigger than its closest living […]...
Riley Elliott at the sharp end of marine science...

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