The tragic trajectory of deep sea bottom trawling just got a lot weirder.

Three pot plants, a barbecue and four bikes—we load up Toyota’s fully electric car for a classic southern summer roadie.

For eight years, Kiwi photographers have gathered the best images of our environment and society and submitted them to expert judgment and public scrutiny in the New Zealand Geographic Photographer of ...

At the Hutt Valley Tramping Club a couple of dozen people sit around a table, tiny trees and cups of tea plopped before them. The cedar smell is heavenly. “Like Christmas and sweat,” somebody says.

Where do young sea creatures spend their first weeks? What’s at the root of oceanic food chains? Kelp forests are to Aotearoa what coral reefs are to other marine ecosystems. Or they used to be. South ...

People and livestock gobble so much fish that the seas soon won’t keep up. Is the answer to grow fish on land? After decades of research, scientists are cracking the secrets to commercially ...

Diseases can take a huge toll on wild animals and hasten rare species towards extinction. In New Zealand, scientists, vets and conservation volunteers are teaming up to try to beat the viruses, ...

The world’s smallest, rarest dolphin lives in New Zealand. After the expansion of gill-netting in 1970, the population and range of Hector’s dolphin diminished rapidly. One extremely isolated ...

An international team of researchers, including some from New Zealand, wanted to understand what drove that process, and when and how these iconic birds diversified into more than 70 known ...

Six parrot species are set to be banned in the Auckland region due to the dangers they pose to native wildlife. Is this fair? The bird watches me with an inquisitive eye. She’s huge, nearly a metre ...