On The Noises, where releases first began in 2015, the island’s guardians have told the team ‘they are everywhere’. Fifty ...

A year ago, we reported on preparations for the arrival of the highly pathogenic avian flu that has ripped through poultry, ...

What do our smallest dolphins get up to underwater? Until now, researchers have been limited to watching from boats, or ...

Pollen can survive millions of years in certain conditions. That’s because each tiny grain is protected by a hard shell of ...

Across the world, light pollution such as streetlights, signage and lit-up windows is prompting hundreds of species of birds ...

Often thought of as a biblical disease, leprosy is still affecting lives in 2025. Solomoni, a 31-year-old Fijian man, knows ...

While most of the world’s new settlements are slowly shifting inland, in New Zealand we’re largely staying put—or edging ...

Many writers are tackling change: top surgery; a family home that floods with every king tide. Tōrea Scott-Fyfe writes of the ...

Some of the most powerful moments in this job are when I open up a new gallery a photographer has sent in. It’s a story on ...

A year ago I rapped out a letter much like this one. It was something new for us: an unvarnished appraisal of New Zealand ...