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After the flood

In the spring of 2018, for a feature we published in Issue 155, Richard Robinson...

Cards on the table

The glowering duck on the cover only just made it. As we put this issue...

Kea taken out by friendly fire

Lead is highly toxic—but to kea, the metal tastes like a sweet treat. So for...

It’s tough to be a wallflower

Buff-tailed bumblebees, important pollinators in Aotearoa, have a taste for flowers with bigger “bullseye” markings...

Blue-sky thinking

In writing about the impacts of tourism on the Cook Islands (page 58) Rachel Reeves...

Robot kōkako seeks friendship, more

If the South Island kōkako is not extinct—if, as many believe, a handful of the...

Zooming out

Switching up the background on your video call might help you stay perky, Singapore researchers...

A raft of trouble

Small marine creatures can hitch lifts on floating objects all the way to Antarctica, a...

Hide and seek, kākāpō style

What to do when giant eagles are hunting you? Change colour, if you’re a kākāpō....

The tourist trap

Every winter, tens of thousands of New Zealanders fly to the Cook Islands. For them,...

Logger heads

What will it take to get landowners into native forestry rather than pine?...

Lost

What happens to the psyche when a person walks and walks, starving and alone?...

Tanked

How one man with a chip on his shoulder changed our waterways forever....

Forget me not

If our memories make us who we are, what’s it like to have a different...

Kahurangi: The Nature of Kahurangi National Park and Northwest Nelson

Dave Hansford, Potton & Burton, $79.99 & A Wild Life: Photographs from the Backcountry of...

The voyager

How building a traditional vaka, and navigating like her ancestors, led Ana Maine home....

Skyfall

For decades, New Zealand has been insulated from highly pathogenic avian flu—the disease that has...

On the road

How did the chicken (and the chihuahua, and the chinchilla) cross the country? By bus,...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

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