It was dark, loud and wet. You could be blown up, run over, or drowned. Or you could succumb to drunken misadventure. Some ...

Willows can stop a river flooding a farm. Or they can turn a river dark and mean. Trying to control them, we’re realising, ...

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

Need a mobile home? An incubation chamber? Dinner? Hundreds of species have hit on an elegant solution: find a nice juicy ...

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

Richard Robinson and Bill Morris threw themselves into reporting their cover story on eels: icy streams, extreme slime, gear ...

But more fickle are the memories, hearts, and minds of New Zealanders. Hendy and his team received death threats, which were ...

New Zealand is now a globally recognised mountain-bike destination. A recent report looking only at trails in our plantation ...

The Geology Museum at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka—University of Otago smells of old wood and older rocks. The walls are lined with ...

Picture a map of New Zealand. Now delete the land. What you’re left with is a vascular system pumping fresh water: swampy ...

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

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