What would New Zealand be without kiwi? Without Fiordland rainforest, or the haunting call of kōkako? If we run down our ...

Between 6–10 metres of rain falls in Fiordland each year. An incredible amount. It’s part of what powers the forest-to-fiord carbon storage pump that makes Fiordland exceptionally good at locking away ...

In his trailblazing new book, Frontal Fatigue: The Impact of Modern Life and Technology on Mental Illness, Dr Mark Rego examines why mental illness and stress are skyrocketing alongside technology.

Some Māori and Pacific people say they have been shut out of climate change activism. They warn if their voices are not included it risks perpetuating the massive inequalities in this country. Kera ...

It has been a soggy few weeks for the upper North Island, with late January’s Auckland downpour and now, Cyclone Gabrielle. States of emergency have been declared across Ikaroa-a-Māui, schools and non ...

A curious thing happened to Rebekah White this week. While the editor of the New Zealand Geographic was walking up a river she found herself plunging into the ground! Do we have quicksand in Aotearoa?

Te Punaha Matatini’s Michael Plank is one of the country’s most respected modellers, but even he says Omicron can be a tricky virus to get one’s figures around. Professor Plank has said the peak of ...

Kina numbers have exploded as we’ve eaten too many of their predators – like big snapper and crayfish – that usually keep them in check. The urchins munch through kelp and seaweed, leaving bare rock ...

An expert in natural disasters says it’s absolutely possible Tonga’s volcanic eruption could have sparked tsunami waves reaching 15-metres high at their peak. Five days on from one of the largest ...

Gibson’s and Antipodean albatrosses are citizens of no one nation. They are ocean birds, living on the wind and waves, travelling massive distances, passing back and forth over the high seas and the ...

A group in Nelson are creating a micro forest. Colin Davis and AJ Clarken decided to embark on the Nelson Whakatu Microforest Initiative after hearing about the micro forest movement spreading around ...

One of the country’s biggest investment funds, ACC, has launched a $100 million Climate Change Impact Fund. ACC’s first investments for the fund are in Lodestone Energy’s solar farms, and Leaft Foods’ ...