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To higher ground

It’s 8pm in Auckland on February 13 and Cyclone Gabrielle is winding up. Over the...

The dot dot dash

Fifty years ago, when four University of Canterbury students went missing in the Ross Sea,...

Many happy returns

Geoff Chapple and Miriam Beatson didn’t tell anyone except the minister that they were getting...

Mud flood

What’s it like to be a cockle or a pipi when the sea turns to...

Sunfish have pretty sweet moves, actually

To an orca, a sunfish is a bit like a watermelon: a nutritious, watery snack,...

Kiekie, ambrosia of the bush

Kiekie belongs to the widely dispersed pandanus family, well known as a source of weaving...

We’re going to need a bigger evacuation zone

Pyroclastic surges—super-heated and fast-flowing clouds of gas and rock fragments—represent the deadliest risk from Auckland’s...

Battle of the mutants

It’s harder than you’d think for a new COVID-19 variant to take off in New...

Wavering heights

Your favourite summer surf break may fizzle out by the end of the century as...

The ice man

Antarctic historian David Harrowfield has spent a lifetime collecting—objects, friendships and memories....

The power of poo

Faeces have a lot to teach us. They can reveal secrets about the lives of...

“A perfect pack of devils”

How a town called Maxwell got—and lost—its name....

Knowledge is (less) power

Anne Wignall is on a mission to reduce her peak time electricity usage to zero....

The future of the world is written in penguin blood

Erect-crested penguins are one of the most mysterious birds on the planet. We have little...

At the mercy of the ice

In the Antarctic summer of 1972, four young scientists set off on a trimaran from...

For the love of velvet worms

This creature is so old it defies imagination. Its genome is far more complex than...

Jungle warfare

Hundreds of pest plant species—many of them garden escapees—run rampant in New Zealand’s biggest city....

“That’s a Robin Morrison shot”

Robin Morrison reset New Zealand’s view of itself with his 1981 photography book The South...

A history consumed by calves

The First: The Walsh Brothers and the Aeroplane Days of Edwardian New Zealand Terry Moyle...

Human nature

After the rain came for Northland and Auckland, Cyclone Gabrielle made landfall. It was a...

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