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Let’s break out the alcohol

While I was chatting recently with Erick Brenstrum from MetService (who writes our weather columns),...

Hunting snipe

Snipe-hunting on subantarctic Campbell Island...

Spring in Haast

While all of Westland tends to be damp, southern Westland is moister than elsewhere. Haast...

Greyhound Racing

Greyhound racing in New Zealand...

The Banabans of Rabi

Decades of phosphate mining on Banaba/Ocean Island left it unfit for growing and gathering food,...

On the Waterfront

Wellington at war—the 1913 Strike...

The memory tree

Kairara: one blink and you will miss it. It’s nothing more than a few farms...

A land transformed

What would have greeted you, step­ping out of a waka 800 or so years ago?...

The menhirs of Rodney County

Far too many folk know I was once a geologist. For such folly, I am...

Two roads to Paradise, Lost

Our islands were the finish line for the longest and closest race in human history....

Willow energy

The world’s thirst for transport fuels shows no sign of slackening anytime soon. Indeed, with...

Lost and found on the Chathams

Over the last few years, several worthwhile scientific/ biological discoveries have been made at the...

Explosive Cyclogenesis

Although New Zealand is not a large country, its mountainous terrain usually breaks up the...

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Issue 200

Jul - Aug 2026

Solar power
Horses of Huntly
Forget me not
Whaling
Red admirals

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Issue 200 Jul - Aug 2026

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Snaring the sun

Slaking the Big Thirst

Our Game: Grassroots Rugby

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On the Waterfront

Putting your money where your mouth is

Blowin’ in the wind

Duel at 20 paces

Diabolical diatom

The march of the pines

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