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.

A new interactive tool illuminates the fraught world of the whale, overlaying tracking data for seven species with hazards such as noise and plastic pollution, ocean traffic and offshore construction.

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.

Richard Robinson and Bill Morris threw themselves into reporting their cover story on eels: icy streams, extreme slime, gear ...

In New Zealand’s national parks and remote areas, conservation managers cull feral cats to save many bird, reptile and ...

ChatGPT can certainly spit out an essay in time for a deadline—but, reassuringly for those of us who write for a living, the ...

But more fickle are the memories, hearts, and minds of New Zealanders. Hendy and his team received death threats, which were ...

JUST SO How the animal kingdom first grew feathers In May, a single white-tipped huia feather sold at Webb’s auction house in Auckland for $46,521—an astonishing sum that seems to reflect both our ...

This afternoon I watched as members of the public streamed through the atrium in Britomart, downtown Auckland, clutching boxes of sushi or staring into the abyss of their mobile phones. They would ...

environment The long road for protection of the Hauraki Gulf ends in success It took 11 painful years, but the Hauraki Gulf Marine Protection Bill appears to be on the brink of becoming law. The ...

J Swap, a company involved in quarrying, wants land protected under QEII covenants to be available to quarry. It donated $11,000 to NZ First in December, after the coalition was formed. It also gave ...

In 1993, Steven Spielberg made the blockbuster film Jurassic Park, an adaptation of Michael Crichton's novel by the same name. The thesis was that DNA could be extracted from blood which was extracted ...