Willows can stop a river flooding a farm. Or they can turn a river dark and mean. Trying to control them, we’re realising, has always been a fool’s game. But we can’t stop now.

In the summer of 2015, in a remote valley of Fiordland National Park, two scientists discover fossil poo fragments underneath a limestone overhang. Analysis suggests the fragments are from moa and are ...

The Geology Museum at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka—University of Otago smells of old wood and older rocks. The walls are lined with geological maps and paintings of extinct creatures—giant penguins, strange ...

Soot. Charred coconut. Water. Turtle bone, sharpened into teeth and tied to a stick. These, as far as we can tell, were the Tokelauan tools of tā tatau, the sacred art of tattooing. Women were marked ...

It was dark, loud and wet. You could be blown up, run over, or drowned. Or you could succumb to drunken misadventure. Some people took one look at the place and quit on the spot. Others stuck it out ...

For years Ebony Lamb has been the go-to portrait photographer for Wellington artists—writers in particular, notoriously hard to shoot well. A standout is Elizabeth Knox in garden-witch mode: apron, ...

Every year, we haul tonnes of eels out of our lakes and rivers. Many are shipped off live for export. To some people, it’s a way of life and a livelihood. To others, it’s a travesty.

Day three of oral submissions on the Treaty Principles Bill and Karlo Mila is nervous as hell. She’s been up since 4.30am, writing. Was still writing in the cafe downstairs. As her friend Ala’imalo ...

Need a mobile home? An incubation chamber? Dinner? Hundreds of species have hit on an elegant solution: find a nice juicy critter—and turn it into a zombie.

Picture a map of New Zealand. Now delete the land. What you’re left with is a vascular system pumping fresh water: swampy ...

New Zealand is now a globally recognised mountain-bike destination. A recent report looking only at trails in our plantation ...