An English convict exiled to Australia who went on to pioneer New Zealand’s shore-whaling industry, John Guard was friend to Te Rauparaha and the instigator of an armed sortie against Taranaki Maori ...

Retreating glaciers and thinning snow and ice are the future of New Zealand’s mountains. Climate change is predicted to warm the country’s atmosphere by 1–4°C by the end of the century, altering the ...

For over a century, we hammered hāpuku. We hit the huge fish so hard that in five decades of underwater exploring, filmmaker Andrew Penniket had encountered them only once. Oceans photographer Richard ...

We are in what I would consider a hinge moment and living through a major regime change. The peace-driven global order established after the world wars that has defined geopolitics, trade, economics ...

Lots of spiders are very good at one or two things. Stalking, maybe. Setting traps. Biting. But Steatoda nobilis, the invasive spider now spreading in New Zealand, has an arsenal of tactics—including ...

It’s a chilly night in Sydenham. The commuters of Ōtautahi/Christchurch clog the southern reaches of Colombo Street, grimly focused on getting through the traffic lights. But at Bradford Park, just a ...