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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Look at the centre of the image above. Now slightly to the right. That’s a New Zealand jumping spider—one of a whole new ...

Dangerous fungal spores can survive stratospheric travel, Swiss scientists have found—which may explain how devastating ...

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