The migration of Oceania’s humpback whales, and their final destination in Antarctica, has remained shrouded in mystery. This year, a team of scientists travelled north to intercept and track the ...
In the late 19th century, news of a strange antipodean bird with beautiful tail feathers, orange wattles, and a long curved beak spread around the British Empire. To Māori, it was a tapu bird—a sacred ...
Hatched in rivers, mayflies rise to the surface and unfurl new wings, the final phase of their precarious and astonishing lifecycle. At dusk, on the upper Waiau River under the swingbridge entrance to ...
This story might have begun by saying that Whangarei’s Clapham’s Clock Museum is no more than a display of superfluous anachronism to those of us who don’t wear watches and prefer to tell the time by ...
Fifteen years after methamphetamine use exploded in New Zealand, the drug remains a serious problem in many communities. Now, amid reports of large international drug busts and figures showing ...
Department of Conservation ranger Jason van de Wetering snoops on transmitter-clad takahē in the Big River catchment of the Gouland Downs. Each bird emits a signature signal, but their itinerant ...
Early Development of nuclear-powered thermal stations was driven by rising demand for electricity and the need for security of supply. The oil crisis of the early 1970s moved France and some other ...
New Zealand’s sesquicentennial year is as good a time as any to think about the origin of our name. We could wonder why a group of Polynesian islands, occupied by the Maori, rediscovered by the Dutch, ...
The Biblical tale of three magi with gifts has an ecological equivalent at the Three Kings Islands, 53 kilometres north of the New Zealand mainland. There, swept by the cool waters of the Tasman Sea, ...
Not so on the ship that brought Fanny Davis to New Zealand in the same year. “Last night was the worst. The wind rose to a perfect hurricane; they fastened down the hatches but that did not prevent ...
Here we are—a nation of parents, grandparents and children all in the same boat, together at home. He waka eke noa. Every day of the lock-down we will post a story or video and set of activities that ...
A resonant whoosh of air and water blasts skywards as a Bryde’s (pronounced “brooders”) whale surfaces 60 metres in front of us. The twin blowholes on the top of its head are clearly visible. The ...
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