Every year, we haul tonnes of eels out of our lakes and rivers. Many are shipped off live for export. To some people, it’s a ...

In 2023, a team of University of Auckland researchers organised workshops across Northland and Auckland—19 of them, involving ...

It was dark, loud and wet. You could be blown up, run over, or drowned. Or you could succumb to drunken misadventure. Some ...

Dangerous fungal spores can survive stratospheric travel, Swiss scientists have found—which may explain how devastating ...

Willows can stop a river flooding a farm. Or they can turn a river dark and mean. Trying to control them, we’re realising, ...

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

The Geology Museum at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka—University of Otago smells of old wood and older rocks. The walls are lined with ...

Picture a map of New Zealand. Now delete the land. What you’re left with is a vascular system pumping fresh water: swampy ...

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

New Zealand is now a globally recognised mountain-bike destination. A recent report looking only at trails in our plantation ...

Need a mobile home? An incubation chamber? Dinner? Hundreds of species have hit on an elegant solution: find a nice juicy ...

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