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Gone fishing

Mum and Dad’s first date was in a dinghy. As soon as my brothers and...

Home fires

In the early 1980s, officials were deliberately burning native forest on the West Coast—clearing the...

Muckraking

Writer and editor Rachel Morris grew up in Hawke’s Bay, and with photographer Lottie Hedley...

Oh, the places you’ll go

Two pieces in this magazine were put together on Te Araroa, the walking track that...

A meditation

Our trees, through the steady lens of German photographer Dirk Nayhauss....

Death of a titan

This summer, New Zealand photographer Rob Suisted was working as a polar guide on a...

Eyes in the sky

Modern vessels bristle with advanced navigation and communication equipment, and yet human activity in our...

Gobbledy-chook

What does a happy chicken sound like? How about a hangry one? Researchers in Australia...

The sonar trap

Every time there’s a stranding—especially when dozens of whales or dolphins run aground, such as...

A tune-up

Noise has a “tangible impact” on soil, improving decomposition and helping fungi grow faster, new...

Eating up

To help her people thrive, health scientist Amy Maslen-Miller first wants to give them a...

Glow it up

Plants can do it. Fish can do it. Worms can do it. Even single-celled plankton...

Six-legged Ghosts: The insects of Aotearoa

Lily Duval, Canterbury University Press, $55...

Feijoa: A story of obsession and belonging

Kate Evans, Moa Press, $39.99...

Pipe dreams

The fetid origin story of Wellington’s struggling sewerage system....

A kind of magic

Bacterium or blue whale, every living thing leaves a trace. Now we have a tool...

Annihilation

Fifty years ago, the government was burning swathes of native forest, using napalm as an...

Ba-gerk!

Driven partly by egg prices but also, surely, by the sheer joy of keeping chickens,...

The stuff of life

There are places in our seas where the great, whirring cogs of the world hold...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

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Meth & HIV in Fiji
Dung beetles
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