Money grubbing

Huhu grubs may hold the secret to economic biofuel production. Or rather, their guts may....

Good haul

New Zealand’s biodiversity is now even higher. Twelve species of fish new to New Zealand,...

A rush of blood to the head

Modern dive suits are lighter, offer more freedom of movement, and you don’t end up...

Feet of clay

Christchurch was built on the pastoral wealth of the Canterbury Plains—a broad, verdant plateau of...

The Sound of the Sea

The scattering of holdings in the Marlborough Sounds support a community connected and defined by...

Our Game: Grassroots Rugby

Far from the steely glare of stadium lights our national game takes place in snow...

To Hell (And Back)

One hundred years ago, as Robert Falcon Scott and his team fatefully hauled their sledges...

Dead Last

The benefit of losing the settlement race...

Gumlands

Forgotten treasures of the north....

Treasure hunting

When I call Neil Fitzgerald, he’s seconded deep in the podocarp forests of the Blue...

X-files

Strange happenings in the south...

The Trout Diaries

Derek Grzelewski is one of New Zealand Geographic’s most prolific writers. With stories on trout...

A plague upon the house

Pathogens often leap from animal hosts to humans. Sometimes, virulent strains are also transmissible between...

The bird whisperer

Steve Sawyer winds back Nature’s clock...

The rainmakers

Though we’ve changed the climate, we’re still obsessed with altering the weather....

Tawharanui Regional Park

Northland seems to have a baffling surplus of coastal scenery, and each twist and turn...

Weed wrangling

Weeds from abroad can be controlled using pests from abroad. The noxious, vine-smothering banana passionfruit...

Deep trouble

The world’s smallest, rarest dolphin lives in New Zealand. After the expansion of gill-netting in...

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