Two months ago Claire Mabey wrote a piece for The Spinoff she titled “the dire state of school libraries and the years-long cry for help”. It described the libraries as “essential infrastructure”, the ...

Invasive caulerpa, the seaweed threatening huge swathes of our coastline, can regenerate from fragments too small to see. It can survive in the dark, in the cold, and even out of water. Disagreement ...

On a trip to Antarctica’s Deception Island, biogeographer Crid Fraser started to suspect there was something special about geothermal steam. All sorts of animals were basking among the volcanic island ...

Greymouth photographer Jason Blair contributes an extraordinary set of portraits (one of which won the Resene Colour Award in our 2025 Photographer of the Year competition). The book itself functions ...

He tested it outside his workshop on the Ahuriri waterfront in Napier. As the fountain whooshed up above roof level, the wind grabbed the water and it landed, “in one perfect dump”, on a guy who was ...

In Wellington, Rob Suisted documented the night-filming project at the centre of the story and followed “dragonfly ambassadors” Ruary Mackenzie Dodds and Kari de Koenigswarter to public talks at ...

The ozone hole above Antarctica seems to be changing, scientists warn—it spanned 27 million square kilometres this September, the second-largest ever observed for that time of year. Weeks later “it’s ...

Some of the stories photographer Richard Robinson and I work on are fairly grim. But heading back to Hawke’s Bay, where both of us grew up and cut our journalism teeth, was a delight. I have vague ...

For millions of years the ecosystems of Aotearoa have skittered with lizards. On some counts, they outnumber our native birds—but like the birds, the lizards are doing it tough. Auckland Zoo is ...