Every autumn, hundreds of newly fledged Cook’s petrel chicks emerge from their burrows in the dark of the Hauraki Gulf and launch into their first big flight—a night trip across Auckland, heading to ...

A new assessment of Aotearoa’s mosses shows about a third of our 560-odd species are classified as at risk or threatened, with 16 deemed “nationally critical”. One of the most precarious is Lindbergia ...

Many writers are tackling change: top surgery; a family home that floods with every king tide. Tōrea Scott-Fyfe writes of the ...

On The Noises, where releases first began in 2015, the island’s guardians have told the team ‘they are everywhere’. Fifty ...

Often thought of as a biblical disease, leprosy is still affecting lives in 2025. Solomoni, a 31-year-old Fijian man, knows ...

A year ago I rapped out a letter much like this one. It was something new for us: an unvarnished appraisal of New Zealand ...

The Vanished World Centre, in Duntroon, is an easy drive from Elephant Rocks and Anatini. It houses an impressive display of ...

What do our smallest dolphins get up to underwater? Until now, researchers have been limited to watching from boats, or ...

A year ago, we reported on preparations for the arrival of the highly pathogenic avian flu that has ripped through poultry, ...

Some of the most powerful moments in this job are when I open up a new gallery a photographer has sent in. It’s a story on ...

Of all the lifeforms that photosynthesise—turning light into energy, and pumping out oxygen—Prochlorococcus is the smallest ...

Pollen can survive millions of years in certain conditions. That’s because each tiny grain is protected by a hard shell of ...