Up the Creek [without a paddle]

Sometime in the mid-1950s a young boy asked “Would you like to come for a...

Aliens

500 metres beneath Antarctica’s Ross Sea lurks a strange and largely undescribed variety of life....

Resting place

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. So begins W.H. Auden’s poem of intense...

Walking the line

The telephone at the end of the world...

Attracting the birds

“I’ve still got talon marks in my scalp,” says Rob Suisted, who shot the cover...

Seeds of Unease

While genetic modification was not much of an issue in our last election, the controversy...

How’s ya baccer?

For a considerable part of the 20th century, tobacco was a key crop in the...

Enraptored

The New Zealand falcon, or karearea, is the country’s only endemic raptor. Able to take...

My oath

We all swear, although some people swear they don’t. In one sense, swearing is benign,...

Te Kaitiaki Toheroa

Within minutes of entering a classroom, James Te Tuhi has captivated his young audi­ence with...

Otherwise fine

On Saturday 9 May, a southerly outbreak swept Antarctic air onto the South Island, bringing...

Opotiki–East Cape

The drive to East Cape from Opotiki is one of the most memorable in New...

South Coast Track

The Waitutu area of Southland offers some challenging tramping through dense tracts of lowland podocarp...

Mother’s Medicine

Suzanne Aubert, also known as Mother Mary Joseph Aubert, was one of the country’s most...

Sea Change

The same forces responsible for cli­mate change are also impacting on the oceans. Half of...

Mystery Malady

“It’s the most impressive animal,” says Louise Chilvers, marine scientist and New Zealand sea lion...

Final stand

In 1996, then deputy editor of New Zealand Geographic, Warren Judd, de­scribed coming across the...

Snow wonder

Old snow can tell us a lot about the past. As snowflakes fall, they collect...

Editorial

Six thousand years ago, our forebears in the Nile Delta realised that certain sta­ple crops...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

Black-Backed Gulls
Meth & HIV in Fiji
Dung beetles
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