A dog-eared pile of responses from last year’s reader survey has been sitting on the editorial desk for the past 12 months.
The mantis shrimp is the most extraordinary thing you’ve never heard of. It’s one of the most impressive predators in the ocean, and kills in milliseconds. It can see things you can barely conceive of ...
What would New Zealand be without kiwi? Without Fiordland rainforest, or the haunting call of kōkako? If we run down our ...
Tall, dark and lonely, formed from a mountain peak drowned by the sea, D’Urville Island is a rugged sentinel between Nelson’s Tasman Bay and the gentle filigree of the Marlborough Sounds. Māori called ...
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 ...
Your responses here allow us to filter the results by reader groups—for instance whether you are a subscriber, a digital reader, a school student. This information will allow us to understand the ...
Rebekah White unfolds the little-known story of Thomas Ward, the surveyor who precisely mapped Wellington as the city ballooned in the late 1800s. Ward recorded the footprint of each building, right ...
But tapping the riches underground would itself be expensive. Quartz reef mining requires a stamp battery, which in the 19th century meant a water-powered machine that crushed rock to powder with ...
How the Pacific Leprosy Foundation is helping a Fijian father overcome the stigma of a debilitating disease. Often thought of as a biblical disease, leprosy is still affecting lives in 2025. Solomoni, ...
Do you remember the jagged thrill of your first wobbly tooth? Worrying the sharp underside, tipping the tooth as far from vertical as it’d go, sliding your tongue through the new, slippery gap?
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