What would New Zealand be without kiwi? Without Fiordland rainforest, or the haunting call of kōkako? If we run down our ...

The mantis shrimp is the most extraordinary thing you’ve never heard of. It’s one of the most impressive predators in the ocean, and kills in milliseconds. It can see things you can barely conceive of ...

New Zealand’s highest mountain, Aoraki/Mount Cook, forms the cornerstone of the country’s longest cycle trail. Starting from the Southern Alps, this 260-kilometre trail descends 540 metres through the ...

If you subscribe, we owe you more than six magazines or online access… we must tell you where we spend subscription income, and how. In a first for New Zealand media, we published our accounts, and we ...

Gibson’s and Antipodean albatrosses are citizens of no one nation. They are ocean birds, living on the wind and waves, travelling massive distances, passing back and forth over the high seas and the ...

Kina numbers have exploded as we’ve eaten too many of their predators – like big snapper and crayfish – that usually keep them in check. The urchins munch through kelp and seaweed, leaving bare rock ...

A group in Nelson are creating a micro forest. Colin Davis and AJ Clarken decided to embark on the Nelson Whakatu Microforest Initiative after hearing about the micro forest movement spreading around ...

One of the country’s biggest investment funds, ACC, has launched a $100 million Climate Change Impact Fund. ACC’s first investments for the fund are in Lodestone Energy’s solar farms, and Leaft Foods’ ...

Between 6–10 metres of rain falls in Fiordland each year. An incredible amount. It’s part of what powers the forest-to-fiord carbon storage pump that makes Fiordland exceptionally good at locking away ...

More than 50,000 people gathered at Waitangi on February 6, 2024—one of the largest attendances on record. What brought them? Driving south on State Highway 1 in the middle of the night, the crescent ...

An expert in natural disasters says it’s absolutely possible Tonga’s volcanic eruption could have sparked tsunami waves reaching 15-metres high at their peak. Five days on from one of the largest ...

The New Zealand scientist who went looking for the Loch Ness monster has unlocked the genetic makeup of the tuatara. University of Otago geneticist Neil Gemmell last year made a list of all the forms ...