trawlingJono Ridler is swimming the length of the North Island unassisted… but he has a lot of help. On an amphibious boat ...

A diabolical gamemaker scatters 85 flags across the Pisa Range. He assigns each flag a certain number of points. Some are ...

In the largest pest-eradication operation yet undertaken in New Zealand, 11,300 ha Campbell Island was blitzed with rat poison in the winter of 2001. Helicopters, such as this Jet Ranger, buzzing ...

In the battle against this country’s rivers of poo, the dung beetle is a potentially powerful weapon and Shaun Forgie is a ...

The planting of Russell lupins as sheep feed in the Canterbury high country is triggering a clash between farming and conservation values. In early summer, photographers jostle for space on the ...

In 1938, a young chemist working on developing new refrigerants accidentally created waxy white flakes instead of gas. The ...

Usually, Panther lives in Doubtless Bay in the Far North, her artworks twists on traditional European lace patterns, made ...

A Waikato law student is suing the government over its climate change policy, claiming its greenhouse gas emissions targets were arrived at illegally, and that the low emissions reduction pledge it ...

Put a drone up and any self-respecting black-backed gull in the vicinity will be there within moments, pecking and hollering ...

A dead fish is a dead fish.” That’s the key finding of a recent study on the scavenging habits of our native crayfish, led by ...

While editing Sarah Newey and Simon Townsley’s feature story about the surge of methamphetamine and HIV in Fiji (page 50), I ...

The delicacy and brilliance of a hummingbird wedded to an industrial-strength beak that would do a woodpecker proud, the chimeric little kingfisher stakes a claim in our hearts. Returning with a snack ...