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 ...

A curious thing happened to Rebekah White this week. While the editor of the New Zealand Geographic was walking up a river she found herself plunging into the ground! Do we have quicksand in Aotearoa?

In his trailblazing new book, Frontal Fatigue: The Impact of Modern Life and Technology on Mental Illness, Dr Mark Rego examines why mental illness and stress are skyrocketing alongside technology.

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’ ...

Some Māori and Pacific people say they have been shut out of climate change activism. They warn if their voices are not included it risks perpetuating the massive inequalities in this country. Kera ...

Te Punaha Matatini’s Michael Plank is one of the country’s most respected modellers, but even he says Omicron can be a tricky virus to get one’s figures around. Professor Plank has said the peak of ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has been a soggy few weeks for the upper North Island, with late January’s Auckland downpour and now, Cyclone Gabrielle. States of emergency have been declared across Ikaroa-a-Māui, schools and non ...

A new conservation strategy for Canterbury’s run-down braided rivers is set to be unveiled this year. Canterbury Regional Council will work with local communities, private landowners and iwi to ...