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Grappling with the octopus

This year, the book that won New Zealand’s richest literary prize, the $60,000 Jann Medlicott...

A life in art

On page 18 of this magazine is a knock-your-socks-off painting of kareao/supplejack. It was created...

Riders on the storm

In February 2022, Tropical Cyclone Dovi brought weather chaos to New Zealand’s North Island—along with...

Tying the forest together

This is one plant you won’t find in a glossy coffee-table book on the 100...

Step away from the kākāpō

The 2019 kākāpō breeding season was the best in the 26-year history of the recovery...

Teaching drones to soar like birds

Flying robots are taking to the skies in greater numbers—performing tasks such as tracking critically...

State of cray

The crayfish population in the Hauraki Gulf is in worse shape than official fishery stock...

Minister’s decision found “unlawful”

The NGO Environmental Law Initiative (ELI) took the Minister for Oceans and Fisheries to the...

Life hacks

How a diagnosis made life better for cybersecurity engineer Denise Carter-Bennett (Ngāti Whātua Ōrākei, Ngāpuhi,...

Robin White: Something is Happening Here

Sarah Farrar, Jill Trevelyan and Nina Tonga Te Papa Press, $70...

The space balls are coming

Soviet Russia aimed a satellite at Venus. It hit Ashburton....

The great bird nerds

Around the country, Birds New Zealand branches are trying to motivate their members to fill...

A clean sweep?

Every year, New Zealand vessels drag trawl gear across nearly 100,000 square kilometres of our...

Under the mountain

New Zealand’s most valuable work of art lay waiting in a Taranaki swamp for 150...

Life will find a way

We cull hybrids. We steal their eggs, and break up inter-species breeding pairs, all in...

The school away from school

One hundred years since its inception, Te Aho o Te Kura Pounamu/the Correspondence School has...

Follow the honey

Comvita and Saving the Wild are battling to save wild land in Kenya. And bees...

Honouring the gift of Puhiwai Rangi

Te Rawhitiroa Bosch documents the traditional harvest of a sperm whale stranded in the Coromandel....

Easy does it

Range anxiety, charging locations, higher power bills… There’s a lot to think about when buying...

The Facemaker: One Surgeon’s Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I

Lindsey Fitzharris...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

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