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 ...

This week on Our Changing World, a story about a community-led archaeology project taking place in the small fishing village of Moeraki, an hour north of Dunedin. Whānau from the Moeraki area have ...

Farmers, growers and regional authorities in the South Island are reporting large numbers of rabbits this year. Responsiblity for pest control falls to property owners under bylaws, and if a regional ...

At 7.30pm on July 21st 1969, New Zealanders tuned into the news and watched man walk on the moon for the very first time. But that footage wasn’t beamed straight from the moon to our TVs – in fact ...

The psychedelic drug psilocybin, found in magic mushrooms, is as good at reducing symptoms of depression as conventional treatment, a small, early-stage trial has suggested. The study, run by Imperial ...

Conservation groups and iwi are joining forces in a bid to make Farewell Spit at the top of the South Island predator free. An ambitious partnership between Manawhenua ki Mohua, HealthPost Nature ...

Auckland-based company Buckley Systems has developed and manufactured a machine which could help treat the most difficult cancers. Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) delivers targeted radiation to ...

More than 50,000 people gathered at Waitangi on February 6, 2024—one of the largest attendances on record. What brought them? Driving south on State Highway 1 in the middle of the night, the crescent ...

Local resident and gardener, Antony Phillips, joins Jesse to chat about how the community garden he helps run is going.

A traveller through Northland who takes a wrong turn at Moerewa could stumble on Matawaia, and the verdict might be: this is a place God forgot to finish. There are no shops, just a school, a marae ...

Meat processor Land Meats New Zealand has been fined more than $66,000 for illegally discharging wastewater into the Whanganui River. A division of the company Affco Group appeared in the Whanganui ...

Thirty years ago botanist Dr Hugh Wilson had a novel idea for trying to make hilly farmland on Canterbury’s Banks Peninsula and turn it back into native forest. It was 1987, and the suggestion that ...