MOTAT is striking a balance between the past and the present with a new exhibition called Hautū Aunoa Autopilot.

A new issue is out; in letterboxes, supermarkets, bookstores, on Nana's couch and Dad's bedside table. It's magnificent, including feature stories on the mighty kingfish, a secret history of huia, the ...

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 ...

A cetologist who has been researching Cook Islands whales for the past three decades says she is proud of the indigenous leaders for taking a stand for the conservation of to’orā (whales) across the ...

The Bounty Islands jut out of the water like giant granite fins. Steep and sheer, with no greenery in sight. Covered instead by a mottled white – guano or bird poo from the tens of thousands of ...

Ocean Beach used to process lambs, a record of 20 000 in one day, but now it’s gullies and troughs run with seawater, not blood. Home to the New Zealand Abalone company and Manaaki Whitebait it’s ...

Journalist Kate Evans and presenter Claire Concannon discover a world of snapping shrimp, singing whales and barking John Dory. Researchers Professor Craig Radford and Dr Jenni Stanley are uncovering ...

With silt suffocating productive land across Hawke’s Bay after Cyclone Gabrielle, horticulturalists are grappling with growing in the new conditions. But Plant and Food Research is on a mission to ...

More than 50,000 people gathered at Waitangi on February 6, 2024—one of the largest attendances on record. What brought them? Driving south on State Highway 1 in the middle of the night, the crescent ...

Half an hour south of Kirikiriroa Hamilton, the Rotopiko wetland reserve is an oasis of trees in a desert of farmland. At dusk these trees fill with hundreds of thousands of starlings and sparrows, ...

Author and documentary filmmaker Bill Morris takes us back in time in his new book The Road to Gondwana – in search of the lost supercontinent. Aotearoa New Zealand is just one fragment of this giant ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, leftover munitions have been dubbed the problem that will never be fixed. Cities have been rebuilt, borders redrawn – but there’s still an estimated 1.6 ...