Every year, we haul tonnes of eels out of our lakes and rivers. Many are shipped off live for export. To some people, it’s a ...

New Zealand is now a globally recognised mountain-bike destination. A recent report looking only at trails in our plantation ...

Willows can stop a river flooding a farm. Or they can turn a river dark and mean. Trying to control them, we’re realising, ...

Seagrass is excellent habitat for fish, birds and invertebrates; it helps keep water clean by holding sediment in place; and ...

“How do we speak truth to power? Just as power pretends it has none. As if history has lapsed, exploitation has expired, as ...

A new interactive tool illuminates the fraught world of the whale, overlaying tracking data for seven species with hazards ...

It was dark, loud and wet. You could be blown up, run over, or drowned. Or you could succumb to drunken misadventure. Some ...

Need a mobile home? An incubation chamber? Dinner? Hundreds of species have hit on an elegant solution: find a nice juicy ...

For years Ebony Lamb has been the go-to portrait photographer for Wellington artists—writers in particular, notoriously hard ...

Picture a map of New Zealand. Now delete the land. What you’re left with is a vascular system pumping fresh water: swampy ...

Richard Robinson and Bill Morris threw themselves into reporting their cover story on eels: icy streams, extreme slime, gear ...

In New Zealand’s national parks and remote areas, conservation managers cull feral cats to save many bird, reptile and ...