New Zealand is now a globally recognised mountain-bike destination. A recent report looking only at trails in our plantation ...

In 2023, a team of University of Auckland researchers organised workshops across Northland and Auckland—19 of them, involving ...

It was dark, loud and wet. You could be blown up, run over, or drowned. Or you could succumb to drunken misadventure. Some ...

Every year, we haul tonnes of eels out of our lakes and rivers. Many are shipped off live for export. To some people, it’s a ...

In 1863, Peruvian slave traders arrived in Tokelau. Half the islands’ population were soon gone: abducted, or dead from the ...

“How do we speak truth to power? Just as power pretends it has none. As if history has lapsed, exploitation has expired, as ...

Willows can stop a river flooding a farm. Or they can turn a river dark and mean. Trying to control them, we’re realising, ...

The Geology Museum at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka—University of Otago smells of old wood and older rocks. The walls are lined with ...

In New Zealand’s national parks and remote areas, conservation managers cull feral cats to save many bird, reptile and ...

Picture a map of New Zealand. Now delete the land. What you’re left with is a vascular system pumping fresh water: swampy ...

Dangerous fungal spores can survive stratospheric travel, Swiss scientists have found—which may explain how devastating ...

What you’re looking at is a slice of the roiling, chaotic stuff between stars—the magnetised dust and gases that make up the ...