For 13 years conservationists have promoted marine protection as a good thing for the Hauraki Gulf. Now they have their wish, ...

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 ...

Paul Lynch, an affable middle-aged lawyer, asks the schoolkids gathered around him. He holds up a baseball-sized rock—a polymetallic nodule, so called because it contains multiple metals, among them ...

Anyone who’s spent serious time in Te Anau, or even just dropped into the town’s pub-slash-cinema, knows Kim Hollows. Maybe you’ve bumped into his big brothers, too. Legendary helicopter pilots, ...

A species of native fungi has been photographed glowing with bioluminescence – a fact that has previously eluded mycologists. A Mycena roseoflava was recently found during the annual “fungal foray” on ...

As the world waits for a vaccine to end the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ll talk about the father of the anti-vaxx movement. Andrew Wakefield falsely linked the MMR vaccine with autism 22 years ago and the ...

Happy Easter! By the time you read this, I’ll hopefully be in front of the fire in a DOC hut drinking my second hot chocolate. It’s been an eventful week. On Monday, a report revealed that Hawke’s Bay ...

Slaters, or woodlice, are part of the isopod family. They’re a type of crustacean – like crabs and crayfish – but they moved from the oceans onto the land millions of years ago. There are probably ...

The Watercare Coastal Walkway was opened in the 2005 when old oxidation ponds were removed and a $450 million transformation of the Manukau Harbour began. Community groups, members of Makarau Marae ...

Recognition of Matariki is on the rise and, along with it, a new appreciation of Māori astronomical knowledge. Te Kōkau Himiona Te Pikikotuku of Ruatāhuna began to compile a 400-page manuscript on ...

The controversial ‘spray and pray’ farming method, being blamed for contaminating waterways in Rangitikei, is being used in Southland. The method uses weed killer to strip hillsides of vegetation ...

Gibson’s and Antipodean albatrosses are citizens of no one nation. They are ocean birds, living on the wind and waves, travelling massive distances, passing back and forth over the high seas and the ...