What’s killing the sea-lions?

New Zealand sea-lion numbers have plummeted. Is it fishing pressure, climate change, the mysterious disappearance...

Massacre at Featherston

In February 1943, an astonishing series of circumstances aligned to set the scene for the...

Thick and thin

New Zealand’s economy was built on ‘the back of a sheep’, but in recent decades,...

Rarest of the rare

Rowi are the rarest of the rare—a species of kiwi so critically restricted in distribution...

To have and to hold

Do we want a relationship with the sea, or merely to appropriate its resources?...

Bird in the hand

Grant Maslowski spent eight months tracking kiwi....

For richer (not poorer)…

Tasman neighbours get hitched....

Reclaiming the coast

Awaroa sandspit is a really bad deal, but we should buy it anyway. Then give...

Going solo, going hard

Was retired British SAS officer Henry Worsley foolish to tackle a crossing of Antarctica in...

Game over

We all hope our lives will have meaning. But for the agents of biochemistry, our...

Cyclones in the desert

The year ended with a sizzle, as temperatures hit records, and cyclones spiralled into new...

Rakiura track

Rakiura National Park, Stewart Island...

Birds of a feather

… flock together, but moa thrived by being different....

Real life vampires

Secrets of blood-suckers revealed....

Ripples in time

The existence of gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of space–time—has finally been proven, 100 years...

Kings of the road

A handmade icon of holidays past....

Natural capital

In this issue, we feature stories on New Zealand’s endangered sea lion and our endangered...

Out in the cold

Gareth Morgan is not afraid of harbouring unpopular opinions in a bid to improve the...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

Black-Backed Gulls
Meth & HIV in Fiji
Dung beetles
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