In 2024, Naomi Arnold slogged her way up Te Araroa, walking from Bluff to Cape Reinga over about nine months. Here, 100 kilometres into her odyssey and deeply unsure about her capacity to finish it, ...

The Tokelau project started with a phone call during lockdown five years ago. Conservation International had been successful with its proposal to MFAT, and wanted us to contribute to a very different ...

Designed for more active travellers looking to explore the remote waterways, coves and coastlines of the Marlborough Sounds, this special five-day New Zealand Geographic and Heritage Expeditions ...

We thought the giant wētā of the south were doing okay. Now, they are under siege. “Epic” is an overused word. I’m in the heart of Mount Aspiring National Park. We’re surrounded on three sides by ...

At best, our recycling system is deeply inefficient. Some argue it’s also a deliberate deception—an industry ploy to stop consumers thinking too hard about buying stuff in the first place. But one ...

Much of New Zealand’s coastal property has an expiry date, with its value set to be wiped off the ledger in as little as nine years’ time, well before sea levels rise and coastlines are redrawn. What ...

From more than 6000 entries, judges have assembled a gallery of 68 images that tell the story of an exceptional year in Aotearoa. Select five of your favourites to vote in the Ockham Residential ...

In December 2023, Environment Canterbury’s Heath Melville counted around 3800 red-billed gulls at Kaikōura. Some birds may have been at sea feeding, but that’s still a dizzying drop—through the 1980s ...

If you didn’t know better, Bruce Reay and Saxton Hut might scare you away. From the stern of one of his boats, all of which are named things like Asphyxia or Hepatitis, he cuts a gruff, wild-haired ...

Medical care across New Zealand works on the following principle: get to the nearest hospital as fast as possible. But what if storms, flooding, landslides or earthquakes make that impossible? One ...

Building anything in New Zealand takes too long and costs too much. The government plans to solve this with new legislation that will greenlight big projects in one go. Which projects? That’s a secret ...

Kate Evans, Moa Press, $39.99 “I often feel torn between two great tidal forces I’ve come to call ‘the hearth and the wild’,” science journalist Kate Evans writes in this history-slash-memoir, her ...