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

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

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

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

What you’re looking at is a slice of the roiling, chaotic stuff between stars—the magnetised dust and gases that make up the ...

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

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

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

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

But more fickle are the memories, hearts, and minds of New Zealanders. Hendy and his team received death threats, which were ...

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

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 ...