Two of the most emotional moments at Tuhoe’s settlement day on Friday August 22 involved the return of treasures to the iwi....
Southern Ocean swells have a greater impact on ice than expected....
Bryce Johnson on fish, rivers, water and life....
A new pesticide to protect crops....
Phytophthora Taxon Agathis (PTA) is a microbe that attacks kauri, damaging the tissues that are the pathways of nutrients through the trees. It passes through the soil from tree to tree at the rate of a few metres a year, or is moved in soil borne on boots, tyres and equipment. There is no known cure and […]...
For generations, club fields have provided access to some of New Zealand’s most spectacular backcountry....
Lampreys have done without bones—even jaws—for 360 million years, making do instead with a mouthful of rasps designed for shredding. But those teeth are no match for a new and invisible enemy. Are pesticides killing the lampreys? Scientists are scrambling to find out....
Just over a week after Britain declared war on Germany, now 100 years ago, New Zealand entered the fray also, despatching troopships to take Samoa. It would be a benign introduction to the horror that would unfold in Europe and Africa, but the first step in New Zealand’s involvement in the Pacific, and the coming […]...
Native forest once covered most of Aotearoa in a great green swathe, heaving with biodiversity. Two-thirds fell to fire, axe and bulldozer during a botanical Blitzkrieg the like of which the world has never seen. Today’s forest remnants are confined largely to areas of conservation land, but legislation can’t protect against pathogens, pests and invasive weeds that do not respect […]...
Will Antarctica’s smallest residents care when the sea warms?...
