Don’t call them swamps. Bogs soak up and store more carbon than forests do, but when they’re drained and used for agriculture, that immense amount of carbon is slowly released. The entrance to one of ...

An English convict exiled to Australia who went on to pioneer New Zealand’s shore-whaling industry, John Guard was friend to Te Rauparaha and the instigator of an armed sortie against Taranaki Maori ...

Retreating glaciers and thinning snow and ice are the future of New Zealand’s mountains. Climate change is predicted to warm the country’s atmosphere by 1–4°C by the end of the century, altering the ...

Cora (front) and Annabel Rolfe race through a privately owned section of Mangaiti gully. When 11-year-old Emily Aquilina has her younger cousins over to play at her house in the Hamilton suburb of ...

We are in what I would consider a hinge moment and living through a major regime change. The peace-driven global order established after the world wars that has defined geopolitics, trade, economics ...

Lots of spiders are very good at one or two things. Stalking, maybe. Setting traps. Biting. But Steatoda nobilis, the invasive spider now spreading in New Zealand, has an arsenal of tactics—including ...

Philip Garnock-Jones has spent more than a decade photographing our native flowers as they’ve never been shown before: in luscious, three-dimensional detail. Philip Garnock-Jones was trying to find ...

It’s a chilly night in Sydenham. The commuters of Ōtautahi/Christchurch clog the southern reaches of Colombo Street, grimly focused on getting through the traffic lights. But at Bradford Park, just a ...