The proposed changes close off that option, meaning any student wanting to go to university would be taking a risk in adding ...

Tall, dark and lonely, formed from a mountain peak drowned by the sea, D’Urville Island is a rugged sentinel between Nelson’s Tasman Bay and the gentle filigree of the Marlborough Sounds. Māori called ...

In 2025, there were 36 winners in Photographer of the Year, each a compelling reflection of who we are as a people and the environment we live in. In 2025, there were 36 winners in Photographer of the ...

On The Noises, where releases first began in 2015, the island’s guardians have told the team ‘they are everywhere’. Fifty adults were recently found in just a few hours one night, as well as many ...

What do our smallest dolphins get up to underwater? Until now, researchers have been limited to watching from boats, or listening to recordings of the dolphins’ echolocation clicks and buzzes. In ...

A year ago, we reported on preparations for the arrival of the highly pathogenic avian flu that has ripped through poultry, sea birds, mammals and a host of other species overseas (see ‘Skyfall’, ...

While most of the world’s new settlements are slowly shifting inland, in New Zealand we’re largely staying put—or edging closer to the sea, according to research published in Nature. The work tracks ...

In the late 1800s, Wellington employed an Inspector of Nuisances in order to investigate the many difficulties of the rapidly ...

Rebekah White unfolds the little-known story of Thomas Ward, the surveyor who precisely mapped Wellington as the city ...

Popularly regarded as brainless kamikazes lacking all road sense, pukeko are confounding scientists with their complex, flexible social lives. And, while other native birds struggle to survive ...

An earthquake is a brutal teacher. It employs disruptive violence, callously shaking that which always seems so reliable; the ground beneath our feet. It can do so ...