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Risk and reward

Outdoor education is at a crossroads....

Photo stories

Some of the most powerful moments in this job are when I open up a...

A welcome infestation

An Auckland Zoo programme is saving the Hauturu-o-toi/Little Barrier Island wētāpunga....

We’re in this together now

Like last year, we are presented with a stark set of choices: survive, grow, or...

Moss tapestry

A new assessment of Aotearoa’s mosses shows about a third of our 560-odd species are...

Heatwaves threaten a plankton that produces one-tenth of the oxygen on Earth

Of all the lifeforms that photosynthesise—turning light into energy, and pumping out oxygen—Prochlorococcus is the...

They’re making sunscreen out of pollen now—and it works

Pollen can survive millions of years in certain conditions. That’s because each tiny grain is...

Pushing our luck

While most of the world’s new settlements are slowly shifting inland, in New Zealand we’re...

Landfall Tauraka 250

Edited by Lynley Edmeades, Otago University Press, $35, October 16...

Kim: A Journey Between Two Worlds

Kim Rangiaonui Logan, Ugly Hill Press, $50, November 3...

Virus on the wing

A year ago, we reported on preparations for the arrival of the highly pathogenic avian...

Our lit-up nights have birds singing overtime

Across the world, light pollution such as streetlights, signage and lit-up windows is prompting hundreds...

Hector’s dolphins are crazy, topsy-turvy hunting machines.

What do our smallest dolphins get up to underwater? Until now, researchers have been limited...

Solomoni comes out of hiding

How the Pacific Leprosy Foundation is helping a Fijian father overcome the stigma of a...

Good dogs

Because of Willy Marsh, hundreds of dogs are choosing not to chase kiwi and penguins....

A vanished world

From fossils to boulders, heritage precincts to glacial moraines, the Waitaki Whitestone Geopark rocks....

The track makers

Moa once walked all over Aotearoa, pressing heavy feet into mud and sand. Eons later,...

The Man Who Drew Wellington

In 1889, Thomas Ward proposed something unique for the capital city: a really, really, really...

Dragonlust

Split open a chunk of agate and a broiling world of ancient colour emerges. Collecting...

Hall of mirrors

Every autumn, hundreds of newly fledged Cook’s petrel chicks emerge from their burrows in the...

Walls of gold

This is thought to be the only photograph that exists of Nenthorn, a bustling town...

Open wide…

Teeth are extreme: they evolved at roughly the same time as bones, and they’re the...

For the mapheads

Rebekah White unfolds the little-known story of Thomas Ward, the surveyor who precisely mapped Wellington...

Inspired by a NZGeo story, readers joined the fight for Niue

“You think that they’re dead,” says Frances McClure, one of a team of volunteers helping...

Lacking teeth, moa ate pretty rocks

These lustrous pieces of agate were found on Rangiatea Station in Canterbury, home to Sara...

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