Glass half full

Waikato’s eponymous brewery was rescued from the edge of financial ruin—twice. Then it burned down,...

What calamity?

Wellington gets a facelift....

An ill wind

How hurricanes influenced the result of elections across the Americas....

Whio

The story of the bird on our $10 note....

Kepler Track

Of all the Great Walks, the Kepler is the only one that was deemed ‘a...

The constant gardener

A Fijian ant cultivates its own garden, and can’t survive without it....

The advantage of being blind

Jellyfish plagues are more likely when water is murky....

Carbon and concrete, friends at last

Cement was considered a climate risk, but a new study shows it isn’t as bad...

A taste for plastic

Seabirds are gorging on plastic for a simple reason: it smells like food....

A tale of two currents

Morgan Gorge, a spectacular chasm on the South Island’s West Coast, is a showpiece of...

Law of the land

Rethinking the way the New Zealand legal system describes the environment, and how people treat...

Crafted

From Captain Cook’s first fetid brew in 1773 to the hop-rocking IPAs that dominate today’s...

These shaky times

The shaking started a few minutes after midnight, just as sleep was finally drifting across...

In the wake of the quake

The Kaikōura Earthquake was better documented and measured than any natural event in our history....

Life on the edge

Like New Zealanders, penguins occupy the margin of land and sea, being dependent on both...

Playing an away game

Female birds have turned promiscuity and deception into artful survival, as have females of many...

Shaky ground

Photographer Rob Suisted on depicting nature and science at work....

What Kaikōura taught us about Wellington

Seismic engineering is failing to anticipate the complexity of earthquakes....

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

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