On page 54, Nic Low writes about a beach settlement at Moeraki. The sea is eating it, graves and taonga and all. Sheep and rabbits are chipping away with sharp hooves and scraping paws. Nic spirals ...

Almost all sponges live in the sea, “and they’re the kind that people know about”, as University of Otago palaeontologist Daphne Lee says. But a team led by her German collaborator Uwe Kaulfuss has ...

On paper, Wellington city’s not looking too flash. But photographer Louis Elorfi Macalister finds life—loud, colourful, and dynamic—on every corner. Shifting political winds can feel the strongest in ...

All around you, animals are building, burrowing or stealing dwellings for themselves and their families. For others, home is a state of mind. What do wasps, book publishing and bureaucracy have in ...

One morning in the Bay of Islands, Nelson lawyer Sally Gepp lowered herself over the side of a boat into the gin-clear waters of Deep Water Cove. She was snorkelling with her family, hosted by ...

I had been eyeing the end of 2025 with trepidation—thousands of subscriptions were set to expire. In the last magazine I asked for help. The message: we still need subscription income to power our ...

In first-year philosophy we chewed over the theory that humans were most interested in watching water, fire, and sky. The idea always irked me. What about a dune of tussock rippling in the wind?

Since the 1850s, two per cent of marine mammal species have gone extinct. But if we look at the biomass—if we add up everything that makes up whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions, dugongs, manatees, and ...

On the road before the clean running of an EV makes up for the emissions created during its manufacture, according to scientists at Duke University in the US. The cars get off to a messy start because ...

Most dairy cows in New Zealand are Friesians—the ones with black spots dappling white backs and bellies. Figuring out which genes dictate these markings was particularly devilish, but after analysing ...

For years, scientists have been using water samples to trace plants, microbes, animals and fungi via the invisible bits of DNA they leave behind. Recently this eDNA technology has taken to the air, ...

Scientists who spent nine years birdwatching in Wellington ecosanctuary Zealandia Te Māra a Tāne report that birds visit the flowers of kōtukutuku, our native tree fuchsia, 16.4 times an hour. That ...