The bill is set to green-light projects that clash with local council planning, the government’s future goals, and our ...

That isn’t a cheerful bonfire, it’s a massive cleanup operation. In Tairāwhiti the beaches are smothered in dead wood. Mountains are sliding into rivers; forests swarm with possums. While officials ...

This afternoon I watched as members of the public streamed through the atrium in Britomart, downtown Auckland, clutching boxes of sushi or staring into the abyss of their mobile phones. They would ...

If you haven't seen this newsletter for a while, hello again. We've endured a long technical battle with Google, whose robotic filter insisted we were a Nigerian prince angling for a quick buck. In ...

This week I've had the pleasure of being in Fiji to welcome sailors participating in Citizens of the Sea—the ocean data programme we launched with Cawthron Institute in May. To date they have ...

You may have seen we ran a poll for readers to help us with our decision on the cover of the latest issue—an electric blue freshwater crayfish, or a gnarled bonsai tree. The bonsai won, and ever since ...

The planting of Russell lupins as sheep feed in the Canterbury high country is triggering a clash between farming and conservation values. In early summer, photographers jostle for space on the ...

In the late 19th century, news of a strange antipodean bird with beautiful tail feathers, orange wattles, and a long curved beak spread around the British Empire. To Māori, it was a tapu bird—a sacred ...