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Seasoning

Trees use the summer solstice as a starting gun, scientists have discovered....

The breaks

Wellington journalist Michelle Duff tackles the big stuff: racism, sexual abuse, the deep, dangerous inequities...

Better living

It is impossible to write an editorial before the rest of the magazine is finished....

New sea monster just dropped

A fossilised bone found in a Canterbury stream turns out to be from a nothosaur—the...

The fungus among us

A mycologist on a mission to catalogue all New Zealand’s species of rust has just...

Leslie’s world

Leslie Adkin wore a lot of hats: photographer, farmer, pioneering tramper, husband and father, self-taught...

Oink, oink

When you go on a pig hunt in Niue there’s really only one option for...

Fire at sea

New Year’s Day, 1967. North of Auckland, marine biologist Bill Ballantine decides he’ll kick off...

Bully bird incoming

Climate change will help one of the most pernicious pest birds in the country spread...

Robot recon

Off the warming northeastern coasts of New Zealand, a spiky problem is snowballing. Centrostephanus rodgersii,...

Net gains

Terressa Shandley Kollat’s a star on TikTok—but she’s much more at home in the water....

“We think in generations, not in quarterly reports.”

That isn’t a cheerful bonfire, it’s a massive cleanup operation. In Tairāwhiti the beaches are...

The fight for Niue

A handful of environmentalists on Niue are waging an urgent battle against invasive species. Will...

Landfall

What force of nature kills more New Zealanders than volcanoes, tsunamis and earthquakes combined? Landslides....

World building: The story of kōura

Crayfish are the great creators and cleanup crew of their freshwater homes. They burrow into...

Drink yourself more bliss

For 50 years, punters had one hour every evening to get their booze in. It...

Becoming Aotearoa

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Flight plan

How the animal kingdom first grew feathers—and got off the ground....

Little Beauties

Bonsai are teeny-tiny. But for some New Zealanders, they have a way of taking over....

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

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