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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 ...

People and livestock gobble so much fish that the seas soon won’t keep up. Is the answer to grow fish on land? Kate Evans meets scientists figuring out the puzzles of how to farm some of New Zealand’s ...

Crackle, pop, woof, crunch, click. In the ocean, an undersea orchestra is in full swing. Journalist Kate Evans discovers who’s playing in it and why, and what happens when human noise drowns out this ...

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 ...

Poet, singer, composer, playwright: interview with a teen polymath. Cadence Chung was 17, and she was livid. Her NCEA history exam featured questions about the poetry of Lionel Terry, while eliding ...

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, ...

As dusk falls at Rotopiko wetland reserve in the Waipā district, a pretty incredible sight emerges: an overhead stream of birds, small dark bodies flitting their way across the fields. The birds home ...

When Air New Zealand started planning their Auckland to New York route there was one important aspect that they had to think about – how much sleep would their crew get on the job. “Sleep is an ...

Marine heatwave conditions in Bay of Plenty have lasted a year - the longest continuous marine heatwave so far recorded for Aotearoa. Although coastal water warming may seem great for beachgoers, ...

The fifth planet from the sun - Jupiter - is the closest it's been to earth since 1963. And, Nasa's Dart spacecraft has crashed into an asteroid that was travelling at 22 and a half thousand ...

A biotech start-up with a whimsical name is moving to shake up New Zealand's reliance on cows for milk protein. Auckland-based Daisy Lab is raising seed funds to scale up its work on producing casein ...