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Chasing joy

For years Ebony Lamb has been the go-to portrait photographer for Wellington artists—writers in particular,...

Water world

Picture a map of New Zealand. Now delete the land. What you’re left with is...

Full commitment

Richard Robinson and Bill Morris threw themselves into reporting their cover story on eels: icy...

Space turbulence

What you’re looking at is a slice of the roiling, chaotic stuff between stars—the magnetised...

Whale watching

A new interactive tool illuminates the fraught world of the whale, overlaying tracking data for...

Can you spot the spider?

Look at the centre of the image above. Now slightly to the right. That’s a...

Our teens see the future, and it’s deeply uncertain

In 2023, a team of University of Auckland researchers organised workshops across Northland and Auckland—19...

The fungal way to fly

Dangerous fungal spores can survive stratospheric travel, Swiss scientists have found—which may explain how devastating...

Top marks, human

ChatGPT can certainly spit out an essay in time for a deadline—but, reassuringly for those...

Tauranga, you’re on seagrass-cam

Seagrass is excellent habitat for fish, birds and invertebrates; it helps keep water clean by...

Our deeply toxic relationship with willows

Willows can stop a river flooding a farm. Or they can turn a river dark...

The worst job in the world

It was dark, loud and wet. You could be blown up, run over, or drowned....

Party like it’s -36°C

A happy midwinter to all who celebrate....

The Covid Response: A Scientist’s Account of New Zealand’s Pandemic and What Comes Next

Shaun Hendy, Bridget Williams Books, $39.99...

Reconnect: Tokelau Tā Tatau

Jack Kirifi, Mila’s Books, $30...

Truth and power

Karlo Mila builds poetry from data and documents....

Quota or taonga? Or both?

Every year, we haul tonnes of eels out of our lakes and rivers. Many are...

For the voyagers

For millions of years, eels moved freely across the waterways of Aotearoa. But now we...

Fossil Treasures of the Geology Museum

Daniel B Thomas, Jeffrey H Robinson, Daphne E Lee, The University of Otago...

Hostile takeover

Need a mobile home? An incubation chamber? Dinner? Hundreds of species have hit on an...

Trail blazers

A new book showcases the dust and drama of mountain biking in New Zealand....

Not all cats

In New Zealand’s national parks and remote areas, conservation managers cull feral cats to save...

Islands in the stream

Tokelau is one of the smallest and most remote island states on the planet. There...

Tech for Tokelau

The Tokelau project started with a phone call during lockdown five years ago. Conservation International...

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