trawlingJono Ridler is swimming the length of the North Island unassisted… but he has a lot of help. On an amphibious boat ...

Put a drone up and any self-respecting black-backed gull in the vicinity will be there within moments, pecking and hollering ...

A diabolical gamemaker scatters 85 flags across the Pisa Range. He assigns each flag a certain number of points. Some are ...

In our cover story last issue, we outlined the many threats facing our fur seal colonies. While most populations are stable or growing—for now—a new paper shows that all along the West Coast, birth ...

In 1938, a young chemist working on developing new refrigerants accidentally created waxy white flakes instead of gas. The ...

Usually, Panther lives in Doubtless Bay in the Far North, her artworks twists on traditional European lace patterns, made ...

A dead fish is a dead fish.” That’s the key finding of a recent study on the scavenging habits of our native crayfish, led by ...

While editing Sarah Newey and Simon Townsley’s feature story about the surge of methamphetamine and HIV in Fiji (page 50), I ...

Timelapse photography shows the tiny superstars of the world’s most famous glow-worm cave system, Waitomo, flickering in ...

Up to six trillion climate change-fighting microbes inhabit each square metre of tree bark, according to a new study by ...

First came the kina, hordes of them taking down kelp forests in shallow waters. But they were a warm-up act. Now, on the deeper reefs, a much bigger, hungrier urchin is going rogue—and once it’s eaten ...

Flora Feltham wrote an early version of our cover story when she was living on Wellington’s predator-free reserve Mana Island with her husband, then a DOC ranger. The couple spent two years on the ...