A dog-eared pile of responses from last year’s reader survey has been sitting on the editorial desk for the past 12 months.

What would New Zealand be without kiwi? Without Fiordland rainforest, or the haunting call of kōkako? If we run down our ...

The mantis shrimp is the most extraordinary thing you’ve never heard of. It’s one of the most impressive predators in the ocean, and kills in milliseconds. It can see things you can barely conceive of ...

Rebekah White unfolds the little-known story of Thomas Ward, the surveyor who precisely mapped Wellington as the city ballooned in the late 1800s. Ward recorded the footprint of each building, right ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new assessment of Aotearoa’s mosses shows about a third of our 560-odd species are classified as at risk or threatened, with 16 deemed “nationally critical”. One of the most precarious is Lindbergia ...

Your responses here allow us to filter the results by reader groups—for instance whether you are a subscriber, a digital reader, a school student. This information will allow us to understand the ...

New Zealand’s highest mountain, Aoraki/Mount Cook, forms the cornerstone of the country’s longest cycle trail. Starting from the Southern Alps, this 260-kilometre trail descends 540 metres through the ...

How the Pacific Leprosy Foundation is helping a Fijian father overcome the stigma of a debilitating disease. Often thought of as a biblical disease, leprosy is still affecting lives in 2025. Solomoni, ...