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 ...

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

Flora Feltham wrote an early version of our cover story when she was living on Wellington’s predator-free reserve Mana Island with her husband, then a DOC ranger. The couple spent two years on the ...

First came the kina, hordes of them taking down kelp forests in shallow waters. But they were a warm-up act. Now, on the deeper reefs, a much bigger, hungrier urchin is going rogue—and once it’s eaten ...

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

Oxygen shaped the world as we know it. It’s why we hiccup and why frogs croak. It’s so good that some turtles have learned to suck it in using not just their nose and mouth, but also… another orifice.

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

In our cover story last issue, we outlined the many threats facing our fur seal colonies. While most populations are stable or growing—for now—a new paper shows that all along the West Coast, birth ...

Waiapu River, a treasure of Ngāti Porou, is now known, too, for its volatility. After decades of forestry thrashing the land, every major storm pushes silt and pine slash downriver to the people and ...

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

Timelapse photography shows the tiny superstars of the world’s most famous glow-worm cave system, Waitomo, flickering in ...

Up to six trillion climate change-fighting microbes inhabit each square metre of tree bark, according to a new study by ...