In the late 1800s, Wellington employed an Inspector of Nuisances in order to investigate the many difficulties of the rapidly ...

Moa once walked all over Aotearoa, pressing heavy feet into mud and sand. Eons later, finding just one of these footprints ...

Across the world, light pollution such as streetlights, signage and lit-up windows is prompting hundreds of species of birds ...

On The Noises, where releases first began in 2015, the island’s guardians have told the team ‘they are everywhere’. Fifty ...

Of all the lifeforms that photosynthesise—turning light into energy, and pumping out oxygen—Prochlorococcus is the smallest ...

What do our smallest dolphins get up to underwater? Until now, researchers have been limited to watching from boats, or ...

The Vanished World Centre, in Duntroon, is an easy drive from Elephant Rocks and Anatini. It houses an impressive display of ...

Teeth are extreme: they evolved at roughly the same time as bones, and they’re the hardest thing in the human body. So why ...

Pollen can survive millions of years in certain conditions. That’s because each tiny grain is protected by a hard shell of ...

A year ago, we reported on preparations for the arrival of the highly pathogenic avian flu that has ripped through poultry, ...

Often thought of as a biblical disease, leprosy is still affecting lives in 2025. Solomoni, a 31-year-old Fijian man, knows ...

Some of the most powerful moments in this job are when I open up a new gallery a photographer has sent in. It’s a story on ...