For 10 years, Tatsiana Chypsanava has been documenting Tūhoe life in Te Urewera, with an intimacy and understanding that comes from feeling like family. On August 22, 2014, at a ceremony in Tāneatua, ...

MOTAT is striking a balance between the past and the present with a new exhibition called Hautū Aunoa Autopilot.

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 ...

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 ...

A biotech start-up with a whimsical name is moving to shake up New Zealand’s reliance on cows for milk protein. Auckland-based Daisy Lab is raising seed funds to scale up its work on producing casein ...

Some Countdown supermarkets are ditching plastic bags from the produce department in a sprinkling of stores country-wide. It means shoppers will have to bring their bags, boxes, buckets and baskets ...

Non-sugar sweeteners like stevia are becoming increasingly common in New Zealand, according to a new study from the University of Auckland. Dr Leanne Young from the University of Auckland School of ...

The Forever Project is a Stuff magazine that addresses the threat of climate change. The latest issue looks at the legacy left for future generations in this country. Stuff climate editor Eloise ...

As the yearly muster of Kaimanawa wild horses draws near, a home is yet to be found for about 150 of them. This year, a total of 206 horses need to be removed from the Kaimanawa Ranges in the central ...

A Canterbury University student has devised a biocomposite wall panel that uses algae – or seaweed – as a bio-filler. The plasterboard has fireproofing and moisture control features and is a low-cost ...

Half an hour south of Kirikiriroa Hamilton, the Rotopiko wetland reserve is an oasis of trees in a desert of farmland. At dusk these trees fill with hundreds of thousands of starlings and sparrows, ...

In 1972 a number of heavy titanium spheres, about twice the size of a basketball, dropped out of the sky and landed in paddocks across Ashburton. But was it Aliens? An elaborate hoax? No. It was ...