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A lady’s debut

For decades, young women of New Zealand marked their late teens with ceremonies that looked...

Geology of Karioi Volcano, Aotearoa New Zealand: Geological Map

OE McLeod with RM Briggs, CE Conway and O Ishizuka Geoscience Society of New Zealand,...

Mark Adams: A survey—He kohinga whakaahua

Mark Adams and Sarah Farrar, Massey University Press, $80...

Food music

Whales sing more when there’s oodles of food around, researchers have discovered. A team based...

Pattern recognition

How Tara Viggo fled fast fashion and cut herself a new career....

For seabird chicks, eating plastic takes an insidious toll

The sable shearwaters of Lord Howe Island, between Australia and New Zealand in the Tasman...

Rock on

Ten years ago, 22 pīwauwau, or rock wrens, went missing following a 1080 operation in...

Dust to dust

Remember the sky on New Year’s Day of 2020? Across the South Island the air...

The elephant has left the room

These days, it’s rare to spot a southern elephant seal in New Zealand. These hefty...

Even by orchid standards, this new native species is exceedingly elegant

Orchids are everywhere. New Zealand has well over 100 species; worldwide there are tens of...

Sparrow country

What sorts of birds are you likely to see if you tackle Te Araroa? After...

This is why

My inbox is a world of hurt. Eels dead on beaches. Seabirds starving. Ice, melting...

Behind the photo, a friendship

The photograph of patternmaker Tara Viggo on page 29 was taken by her late friend,...

Get a whiff of that

Nelson writer Naomi Arnold has two features in this issue, and both involve moments of...

Seeking Miss McNeill

Colour photography hit its stride in New Zealand just as debutante balls were fading from...

Ross Sea, Antarctica

Richard Young, the winner of the wildlife category at last year’s Photographer of the Year...

Two days in the forest of nightmares

In 2024, Naomi Arnold slogged her way up Te Araroa, walking from Bluff to Cape...

The new global superpower? Seaweed.

Solutions to some of our most pressing problems have been waving at us from under...

Citadel of the giants

We thought the giant wētā of the south were doing okay. Now, they are under...

Why we march

Unity. Discipline. Endless bobby pins. A story about what draws women to marching—and why they...

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Issue 198

Mar - Apr 2026

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

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