For moths and butterflies, a clear pattern of decline

Butterflies and moths are active in the middle of the day, and mostly through spring...

Washed up

At Auckland Zoo, a rising tide of critically ill marine patients is inundating the Vet...

Think twice before playing in a river in the yellow zones. Or the green.

Splashing around in a New Zealand river? This map shows your risk of coming down...

Petrels’ submarine sprints are putting them in harm’s way

How deep do seabirds dive, and how fast do they go? Faster and deeper than...

Godspeed, Golden Boy

For a year, the coastline north of Kaikōura was home to a unique albino kekeno...

Modern miracles

We began work on our cover story thinking we were documenting the end of a...

The Valley

Asher Emanuel, Bridget Williams Books...

The Secret Life of Fungi

Jay Lichter, Allen & Unwin...

Woman alone

The hard, heavy work of not feeling scared in the bush—and why we persist....

The reawakening of waka ama

The joy and community that comes from picking up a paddle—and putting your back into...

We’re going on a hornet hunt

The fight to eradicate the yellow-legged hornet involves poison-puffing spears, spacesuits, Christmas tinsel, hectic chases...

X-ray origins

Suddenly we could take photographs of our insides. And we loved it....

The pā builders

Five hundred years ago, people started building pā all over northern New Zealand—fortifying their settlements...

Hope for the underbirds

For decades, the southern New Zealand dotterel had been disappearing, bird after bird killed on...

We just dumped five billion litres of raw sewage into this ecosystem

Marine ecologist Irene Middleton photographs one of her favourite dive spots, Wellington’s south coast. Astonishingly...

The big questions

Does an elephant really need to be that massive? Why aren’t there any giant insects?...

The true cost of this magazine

Every business has an environmental impact. We decided to calculate ours, using a new and...

Feeling fairly okay about the fuel crisis?

“It won’t sort itself out,” warns energy expert Nathan Surendran....

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