In this episode, Gus visits New Zealand’s first conservation park–the world’s fourth–Tongariro National Park. The history of the creation of the park is controversial and Gus starts his exploration by ...

On a trip to Antarctica’s Deception Island, biogeographer Crid Fraser started to suspect there was something special about ...

In 2026, there were 33 winners in Photographer of the Year, each a compelling reflection of who we are as a people and the ...

Invasive caulerpa, the seaweed threatening huge swathes of our coastline, can regenerate from fragments too small to see. It ...

The ozone hole above Antarctica seems to be changing, scientists warn—it spanned 27 million square kilometres this September, ...

Pigs will quickly wreak havoc in native ecosystems, but getting rid of them can be a delicate exercise. You might need to ...

Greymouth photographer Jason Blair contributes an extraordinary set of portraits (one of which won the Resene Colour Award in ...

He tested it outside his workshop on the Ahuriri waterfront in Napier. As the fountain whooshed up above roof level, the wind ...

The other week I received an enquiry from international publishing house Brown Brothers Media to purchase New Zealand ...

For millions of years the ecosystems of Aotearoa have skittered with lizards. On some counts, they outnumber our native birds ...

Our feature on bush giant dragonflies involved a small squadron of photographers. In Wellington, Rob Suisted documented the ...

Some of the stories photographer Richard Robinson and I work on are fairly grim. But heading back to Hawke’s Bay, where both ...