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A toe on the start line

After 23 years, we have made the first tangible step towards recovery of the Hauraki...

Taking on water

New Zealand once led the world in marine protection. Now our underwater ecosystems are bottoming...

Immaculate

You might spot them on their hands and knees, grid-searching their section for weeds. Spending...

Summer 33

Two people have been counting albatrosses on remote islands in the subantarctic for more than...

Weaponised

Evolution is an arms race writ large—nature red in tooth and claw. With each generation,...

For whom the bell tolls

Almost two centuries after its discovery, an enigmatic bell is bringing communities together....

Through Shaded Glass

Women And Photography In Aotearoa New Zealand 1860–1960. Lissa Mitchell, Te Papa Press, $75.00...

Under the Weather

A Future Forecast for New Zealand. James Renwick, HarperCollins, $39.99...

In Love With the Weeds

Taxonomist Roberta D’Archino is finding and cataloguing our marine flora, one dive at a time....

Pīngao

Holding it together—just....

State of emergencies

Feeling like 2023 has been one state of emergency after another? Us, too. Being nerds,...

How not to have kittens

We have 2.5 million feral cats in New Zealand; on top of that, about 44...

Stealth attack

It was only a matter of time. In May, kaitiaki Rana Rewha (Ngāti Kuta) found...

Mortal combat

Researchers have discovered a potential antidote to death cap mushroom poisoning....

Sharks are no chilly gillies

Fish are cold-blooded, meaning they rely on their surroundings to regulate their body temperature. So...

Life in plastic

In the North Pacific off the coast of California, ocean currents and winds concentrate humanity’s...

Losing the ice

Virginia Woolf documents our melting glaciers....

The pictures we carry with us

In the moment, says oceans photographer Richard Robinson, you’re thinking about the light, the water...

An unbroken line

Down in southern Te Waipounamu where I’m from, before European contact the fishing grounds had...

The wind hunters

Vol-biv, or “fly-camping”, is a sport of contrasts. First comes the earthly grind: you have...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

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