The measure of the land

With the recent printing of six topographic sheets of the Fiordland region, maps covering the...

Rosy outlook for sweet briar

SWEET BRIAR IS widely considered a pest by South Island high-country farmers, but thanks to...

A walk in the Waitutu forest

Southland’s remote Waitutu district is considered by many to hold the finest spread of native...

‘And for Marlborough…’ fine and dry

The weather forecasts for central Marlborough had a monotonous sameness last summer, as El Nino...

Illusions of sterility

The exciting thing about science is just that, it is exciting. Scientists and their camp...

Looking back on El Niño

As Climatologists predicted in mid-1997, the El Niño weather pattern has, in the nine months...

Wanaka’s new lizard

In January of this year, Leigh Marshall, a Univer­sity of Otago student, happened upon a...

Finding ourselves at Te Papa

Taking over where nature left off, eager hands rub river gravel into the water-worn surface...

The truth about tadpoles and frogs

Bulging eyes, cold, clammy skin, webbed feet and a capacious mouth—frogs may repulse us, but...

C.F. Goldie: the old master revisited

To the public he is a national treasure. To critics he was a “one-man academy”...

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