At night, the only light in the warehouse comes from row upon row of truck-sized tanks, each lit from within like a gigantic lava lamp. The contents roil, the colours shifting with the movement from ...

“Epic” is an overused word. I’m in the heart of Mount Aspiring National Park. We’re surrounded on three sides by 400-metre cliffs, over which tumble curtains of water. Boulders the size of townhouses ...

We learned a lot from last week’s reader survey. Mostly we were reminded that the things that are important to us are important to our readers as well. We asked a number of pointed questions around ...

The 49-kilometre Motatapu Track between Macetown and Wānaka sends walkers up four mountains; while Arnold slogged through the mud she dreamed of reaching these open tops. In the campground kitchen at ...

The sable shearwaters of Lord Howe Island, between Australia and New Zealand in the Tasman Sea, are among the most plastic-contaminated seabirds in the world. Unsuspecting parents feed their chicks ...

The photograph of patternmaker Tara Viggo on page 29 was taken by her late friend, UK photographer Caylee Hankins, in 2019. The pair had bonded over their love of surfing and obscure gigs, and spent a ...

Whales sing more when there’s oodles of food around, researchers have discovered. A team based at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute analysed whalesong picked up on hydrophones in the ...

These days, it’s rare to spot a southern elephant seal in New Zealand. These hefty mammals—the males can reach five metres and 3.7 tonnes—are now resident only on remote subantarctic islands. But 800 ...

Karioi maunga towers above the Raglan coastline, shaping both the weather and the region’s famous surf. Those arriving in Aotearoa on the Tainui waka saw Karioi on the horizon, and some later settled ...

In 2024, Naomi Arnold slogged her way up Te Araroa, walking from Bluff to Cape Reinga over about nine months. Here, 100 kilometres into her odyssey and deeply unsure about her capacity to finish it, ...

Imagine if a snail had feet popping out the end of its shell, two soft little lobes. Now, imagine that it could flap those feet and fly away. That’s pretty much what a sea butterfly is, except that it ...

Colour photography hit its stride in New Zealand just as debutante balls were fading from the scene, so almost all of the images in official archives, like this group of young ladies pictured in their ...