The proposed changes close off that option, meaning any student wanting to go to university would be taking a risk in adding ...

New Zealand’s highest mountain, Aoraki/Mount Cook, forms the cornerstone of the country’s longest cycle trail. Starting from the Southern Alps, this 260-kilometre trail descends 540 metres through the ...

Popularly regarded as brainless kamikazes lacking all road sense, pukeko are confounding scientists with their complex, flexible social lives. And, while other native birds struggle to survive ...

In 2025, there were 36 winners in Photographer of the Year, each a compelling reflection of who we are as a people and the environment we live in. In 2025, there were 36 winners in Photographer of the ...

If you subscribe, we owe you more than six magazines or online access… we must tell you where we spend subscription income, and how. In a first for New Zealand media, we published our accounts, and we ...

In the late 1800s, Wellington employed an Inspector of Nuisances in order to investigate the many difficulties of the rapidly ...

On The Noises, where releases first began in 2015, the island’s guardians have told the team ‘they are everywhere’. Fifty adults were recently found in just a few hours one night, as well as many ...

Of all the lifeforms that photosynthesise—turning light into energy, and pumping out oxygen—Prochlorococcus is the smallest and most abundant. A drop of seawater might contain 100,000 of the ...

The Vanished World Centre, in Duntroon, is an easy drive from Elephant Rocks and Anatini. It houses an impressive display of fossils from the Geopark, as well as a dedicated space where visitors can ...

What do our smallest dolphins get up to underwater? Until now, researchers have been limited to watching from boats, or listening to recordings of the dolphins’ echolocation clicks and buzzes. In ...

These lustrous pieces of agate were found on Rangiatea Station in Canterbury, home to Sara and Bill Gallagher. The farm is rich in agates, and the couple use some of it to run a small jewellery ...

A year ago, we reported on preparations for the arrival of the highly pathogenic avian flu that has ripped through poultry, sea birds, mammals and a host of other species overseas (see ‘Skyfall’, ...