What would New Zealand be without kiwi? Without Fiordland rainforest, or the haunting call of kōkako? If we run down our ecosystems, and thin out the ocean, is the weight of that loss not greater than...

Like last year, we are presented with a stark set of choices: survive, grow, or die.

For over a century, we hammered hāpuku. We hit the huge fish so hard that in five decades of underwater exploring, filmmaker Andrew Penniket had encountered them only once. Oceans photographer Richard...

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.

For a fleeting spell each winter, ponds and dams across Central Otago freeze—and the chase for wild ice begins.

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 ...

One in 40,000 snails have the spiral on the left side of the shell, and they can only mate with other lefties. Can you help Ned find true love?

After Gabrielle, volunteers are salvaging homes and lives

What are little blue penguins trying to tell us?

COP’s over. What does it mean for New Zealand?

Did we put takahē in the wrong place?

Too tasty for its own good

Palaeontologists ask for help preserving fossils

Palaeontologists ask for help preserving fossils

We could forecast floods better. Why don't we?

The mystery of the colourblind cephalopods

Kina-nomics

Land of the bright white light

The grief bird

The seafloor stores carbon, but trawling releases it