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

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

Look at the centre of the image above. Now slightly to the right. That’s a New Zealand jumping spider—one of a whole new ...

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

Seagrass is excellent habitat for fish, birds and invertebrates; it helps keep water clean by holding sediment in place; and ...

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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 ...

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

ChatGPT can certainly spit out an essay in time for a deadline—but, reassuringly for those of us who write for a living, the ...

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

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

Richard Robinson and Bill Morris threw themselves into reporting their cover story on eels: icy streams, extreme slime, gear ...