Decades ago, red admiral butterflies all but abandoned Auckland city. Now, united by two retirees and a tolerance for ...

Ta-da: a jaunty bird taking a walk, looking like he’s about to belt out a Pingu honk. Decades later, McCahon paints a ...

How did I ever get caught in a trap like this? No way up and certainly no way to climb back down. A wall of vertical granite fell away beneath my feet and gravity, so deftly defied until now, returned ...

Plantations of exotic timber trees, especially pines, are looked on with disdain by many as alien monocultures, an unpleasant accommodation necessary to protect precious indigenous forests from the ...

In a letter to his wife from Nigeria in 1942, Christopher Johnson looked back on all the climbing he had done. A fighter pilot, he was en route from Britain to Egypt, and the long, circuitous journey ...

New Zealand’s largest earthquake in European times struck the centre of the country almost 150 years ago. Although the later Murchison and Napier earthquakes claimed more lives, neither created the ...

Geo News Big blue comeback After being hunted to less than three per cent of their original population by commercial whalers, blue whales are once again being spotted around mainland New Zealand. Some ...

It’s a cloudless Sunday afternoon and the sidelines at Huntly Rugby Club are packed for the junior women’s first league game of the season. This is a family day out for the west side of town—the ...

For several years, kōtare, our native kingfishers, have been turning up at West Auckland rehab centre BirdCare Aotearoa with a mysterious affliction: mouths laced with tiny, almost translucent worms. ...

Our critter of the week is Paryphanta busby, the Kauri Snail, Pupu Rangi. These snails belong to the oldest family of land snails on earth, dating back 200 million years. Despite the name, they don't ...

A curious thing happened to Rebekah White this week. While the editor of the New Zealand Geographic was walking up a river she found herself plunging into the ground! Do we have quicksand in Aotearoa?