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

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'd like to start by thanking everyone who has responded to our We Need Your Help appeal. On Thursday we ticked over 1000 new subscriptions, putting us just 1000 short of our goal. Hundreds of readers ...

For all those who have responded by subscribing for grandchildren or overseas relatives or to repay long and embarrassing debts, thank you. Thank you also for those who chose to donate instead, or ...

I watched the NYTimes election 'needle' edge into the red until the image was seared on my retina. Among the many questions in my mind on Wednesday was how the media and pollsters (and perhaps the ...

For all those who read my first article laying out the circumstances for New Zealand Geographic, thank you. Some 500 people took out new subscriptions, others renewed. Many also offered advice, which ...

Much of New Zealand’s coastal property has an expiry date, with its value set to be wiped off the ledger in as little as nine years’ time, well before sea levels rise and coastlines are redrawn. What ...

What would the beach be without red-billed gulls? We may be about to find out. Two huge colonies have already gone under and the next biggest, in Kaikōura, is failing fast. In December 2023, ...

For centuries, in the rolling green fields of the British Midlands, Hams Hall sat nestled in a copse of sturdy yew trees. The inhabitants of the three-storey stone mansion and its surrounding hamlets ...

Where do young sea creatures spend their first weeks? What’s at the root of oceanic food chains? Kelp forests are to Aotearoa what coral reefs are to other marine ecosystems. Or they used to be. South ...

People and livestock gobble so much fish that the seas soon won’t keep up. Is the answer to grow fish on land? After decades of research, scientists are cracking the secrets to commercially ...

In a windy land, the most notorious gale is the Canterbury nor’wester. Born in the heart of the mountains, it accelerates down the great valleys east of the Main Divide and roars out across the plains ...