For 13 years conservationists have promoted marine protection as a good thing for the Hauraki Gulf. Now they have their wish, ...

Aligned with the Photographer of the Year Awards Night, we have invited Pulitzer-prize-winning photographer Melanie Burford to run a special photography workshop on the same afternoon, dedicated to ...

Anyone who’s spent serious time in Te Anau, or even just dropped into the town’s pub-slash-cinema, knows Kim Hollows. Maybe you’ve bumped into his big brothers, too. Legendary helicopter pilots, ...

Paul Lynch, an affable middle-aged lawyer, asks the schoolkids gathered around him. He holds up a baseball-sized rock—a polymetallic nodule, so called because it contains multiple metals, among them ...

A group in Nelson are creating a micro forest. Colin Davis and AJ Clarken decided to embark on the Nelson Whakatu Microforest Initiative after hearing about the micro forest movement spreading around ...

Recent research from Victoria University of Wellington has revealed thousands of coastal homes could face huge hikes in insurance premiums, or an inability to get insurance at all, within fifteen ...

A species of native fungi has been photographed glowing with bioluminescence – a fact that has previously eluded mycologists. A Mycena roseoflava was recently found during the annual “fungal foray” on ...

As the world waits for a vaccine to end the Covid-19 pandemic, we’ll talk about the father of the anti-vaxx movement. Andrew Wakefield falsely linked the MMR vaccine with autism 22 years ago and the ...

The Watercare Coastal Walkway was opened in the 2005 when old oxidation ponds were removed and a $450 million transformation of the Manukau Harbour began. Community groups, members of Makarau Marae ...

Gibson’s and Antipodean albatrosses are citizens of no one nation. They are ocean birds, living on the wind and waves, travelling massive distances, passing back and forth over the high seas and the ...

Slaters, or woodlice, are part of the isopod family. They’re a type of crustacean – like crabs and crayfish – but they moved from the oceans onto the land millions of years ago. There are probably ...