Rising from the ashes

In the wake of Australia’s catastrophic bushfire season, the country’s forests face yet another pressure:...

No more silence

New Zealand has a government-funded research organisation that studies and monitors our volcanoes. It’s thanks...

Aotearoa’s ark

As some humans ponder their own extinction, others are figuring out the best places to...

Dive-in movie

How does a cephalopod see the world? If you’re a cuttlefish in this experiment, you...

How did bananas cross the Pacific?

Thanks to early explorers’ lack of dental hygiene, we can decipher clues about their lives....

New dogs, old tricks

Tens of thousands of years ago, grey wolves and humans teamed up, and as time...

Surface of the sun

Like bubbles in a pot of boiling water, this solar close-up shows convection cells on...

Mesozoic beetles

It started with an insect preserved in amber. A round, shiny beetle a couple of...

Turned into glass

A victim of the eruption of Vesuvius surprised researchers....

No more blame

As social researchers seek ways to defuse hostility towards “outgroups”, one United States study has...

The great Nazi hoax

‘Captain Calder’ scams the government....

Call of the whales

Ramari Stewart on keeping traditions alive....

Lizards anonymous

Many of our skinks and geckos are so new to science that they don’t even...

Fallen from grace

The rarest bird in this country is the fairy tern, with perhaps 36 adults left...

Gun country

Last century, firearms flooded into New Zealand with returning servicemen, and during peacetime guns became...

What happened on Whakaari?

In 2016, our most active volcano warned us of its impulsive and devastating power. We...

Hostile territory

New Zealand Geographic publisher James Frankham on documenting Whakaari/White Island....

Singing the same tune

Picture the moa. A flightless feathered giant, reminiscent of an emu or cassowary. Over the...

Citizen skywatchers

When an undulating curve lit up the night sky above a group of Finnish aurora...

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Jul - Aug 2026

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