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 ...

The gains made in agricultural science over the past decade could slow as the government funding tap runs dry, the director of a programme using science to fix real-world issues in Aotearoa's natural ...

People and livestock gobble so much fish that the seas soon won’t keep up. Is the answer to grow fish on land? Kate Evans meets scientists figuring out the puzzles of how to farm some of New Zealand’s ...

Kina numbers have exploded as we’ve eaten too many of their predators – like big snapper and crayfish – that usually keep them in check. The urchins munch through kelp and seaweed, leaving bare rock ...

Crackle, pop, woof, crunch, click. In the ocean, an undersea orchestra is in full swing. Journalist Kate Evans discovers who’s playing in it and why, and what happens when human noise drowns out this ...

More than 50,000 people gathered at Waitangi on February 6, 2024—one of the largest attendances on record. What brought them? Driving south on State Highway 1 in the middle of the night, the crescent ...

Poet, singer, composer, playwright: interview with a teen polymath. Cadence Chung was 17, and she was livid. Her NCEA history exam featured questions about the poetry of Lionel Terry, while eliding ...

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, ...

As dusk falls at Rotopiko wetland reserve in the Waipā district, a pretty incredible sight emerges: an overhead stream of birds, small dark bodies flitting their way across the fields. The birds home ...

When Air New Zealand started planning their Auckland to New York route there was one important aspect that they had to think about – how much sleep would their crew get on the job. “Sleep is an ...

Emperor penguins spend part of the year huddled together on the ice, keeping eggs and then chicks warm. But where do they go once breeding season is over? This week we’re starting a mini rerun of ...

An iwi-led Southland environmental charity is helping rangatahi into new careers and turning its attention to large-scale restoration projects. Te Tapu o Tāne is owned by Ki Papatipu Rūnanga o ...