At best, our recycling system is deeply inefficient. Some argue it’s also a deliberate deception—an industry ploy to stop ...

Get out of the city this summer and you’re bound to glimpse a kāhu. The powerful, clever native hawks are revered by those ...

They’ve been here 300 million years. They grow on rock, or in deserts, or underwater, or on dead animals—and they can survive ...

It arrived in a wooden cabinet, each drawer of it a family: Calliostomatinae, Volutidae, Turbinidae. One of every kind of ...

If it’s a dog-eat-dog world, and if nature is red in tooth and claw, why are so many animals nice to each other—and us?

Most journalists I know feed their interview recordings to an AI called Otter, then go through each transcript word-for-word, ...

Craig Mckenzie was surprised that New Zealand Geographic didn’t pick this photograph as part of our 2017 feature on kākāriki ...

Richard Robinson met a Polish woman, Ania Matuszczak, diving at the Poor Knights. Now, the couple live in Auckland, and have ...

Tom Neale is dropped off on Suwarrow, an uninhabited atoll some 900 kilometres north-northwest of Rarotonga, on October 7, ...

Laura Ryan was studying the visual systems of fish when a spate of shark attacks at her favourite Perth surf spot got her thinking—why do these apex predators confuse tasteless humans with delicious ...

Last week, scientists and kaitiaki set to work to necropsy the rarest whale ever discovered—a spade-toothed beaked whale that washed up at the mouth of the Taieri River, south of Dunedin.

I set a deeply unimpressive personal record. The drive to work, which usually takes 45 minutes, stretched out to an interminable 77. I sat at one intersection for more than half an hour, listening to ...