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Into the vortex

Something out of the ordinary has been unfolding above the South Pole....

Plant-based feast

Why it’s a boom year for kākāpō and rodents alike....

In the wind

On Monday, February 13, an electrical fault on Early Valley Road at Lansdowne near Christchurch...

After the deluge

Autumn rainfall looks set to break records, and ‘teleconnections’ may be to blame....

Cyclogenesis is so 2016…

So in January we tried the ‘explosive’ kind....

An ill wind

How hurricanes influenced the result of elections across the Americas....

Inundated

Snow in Hawke’s Bay in August 2016 echoes the catastrophic flood of 1938....

Fine weather for a shipwreck

While many ships founder in foul weather, a few are saved by a timely spell...

1816

The year without a summer....

Fiji ‘caned

Hurricane Winston brought gusts over 300 km/h...

Cyclones in the desert

The year ended with a sizzle, as temperatures hit records, and cyclones spiralled into new...

Broken record

A record low temperature, accepted only this year, dates back more than a century....

Climate change = eruptions, earthquakes

As ice sheets melt, magma flows....

Cold wars

Lessons from the Little Ice Age....

Twin storms

Storms in May and June brought heavy rain and flooding to Kāpiti and Dunedin. Are...

Danger isles

How New Zealand’s most dangerous islands revolutionised our weather forecasting....

Blowing hot and cold

Climate change made 2014 the hottest year on record, and delivered record snowfalls too....

Head in the clouds

Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles, was an astute observer of the weather, an inventor, and...

The river wild

The rage of the Clutha scattered livestock and infrastructure...

Gas attack

As the climate warms, methane is liberated in strange and unusual ways....

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

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

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