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The pōhutukawa boomed last summer. Thousands of trees blooming their hearts out, ridiculous masses of...

Life and death in Antarctica

In 1909, Robert Falcon Scott convinced renowned photographer Herbert Ponting to board Terra Nova for...

Get my good side

Most snail shells have a spiral only on the right—the left is more of a...

Bloom time

Behold the evolution of flowering plants, painstakingly put together by gene sequencing thousands of species,...

Rise of the phoenix

A magnificent moth, unseen for 65 years, has popped up on Stewart Island/Rakiura. Entomologist Robert...

Here to make friends

Ray Blackburn and Maggie Cornish have volunteered at the Tāwharanui Open Sanctuary north of Auckland...

Touchstone

Ngāti Kuia once relied on what they call pakohe, a type of argillite found only...

Writer, meet giraffe

Asia Martusia King’s first piece for this magazine is a History column about bears going...

Power play

Scientists build a 2000sqm high-tech playground. Kids go berserk....

Sorry, Batman: Physics says no

An invisible mathematical thread connects most creatures that fly, Danish physicists have found—and even those...

This is your brain on clutter

A new experiment suggests the human perception of time is influenced by what we’re looking...

On the attack

We put bears in zoos and the bears bit back....

A Man Holds a Fish

Glenn Busch, Te Papa Press, $75...

Everest, Inc.: The renegades and rogues who built an industry at the top of the world

Will Cockrell, Simon & Schuster, $39.99...

Homecooked science

When Jennifer Bannister was growing up, girls were secretaries, or teachers, or nurses. She persevered....

Fly, Fly

How do you say goodbye to a life’s work?...

Off the wall

For a long time it was a good place to be an endangered skink—a vertical...

The forgotten pandemic

A vicious strain of myrtle rust is burning through our bush. Dozens of native species—and...

“Evans is not to be trusted”

A story of bitterness and betrayal at the South Pole....

House of cards

In Lake Wānaka the Australasian crested grebe reigns supreme from a flotilla of nesting platforms...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

Black-Backed Gulls
Meth & HIV in Fiji
Dung beetles
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Issue 198 Mar - Apr 2026

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Two years on Mana Island

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