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 ...

Kina numbers have exploded as we’ve eaten too many of their predators – like big snapper and crayfish – that usually keep them in check. The urchins munch through kelp and seaweed, leaving bare rock ...

Gibson’s and Antipodean albatrosses are citizens of no one nation. They are ocean birds, living on the wind and waves, travelling massive distances, passing back and forth over the high seas and the ...

One of the country’s biggest investment funds, ACC, has launched a $100 million Climate Change Impact Fund. ACC’s first investments for the fund are in Lodestone Energy’s solar farms, and Leaft Foods’ ...

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?

Between 6–10 metres of rain falls in Fiordland each year. An incredible amount. It’s part of what powers the forest-to-fiord carbon storage pump that makes Fiordland exceptionally good at locking away ...

An expert in natural disasters says it’s absolutely possible Tonga’s volcanic eruption could have sparked tsunami waves reaching 15-metres high at their peak. Five days on from one of the largest ...

Welcome to your new Weekender. Every Friday afternoon, we’ll be bringing you original stories from New Zealand Geographic. The big change is that we’re publishing news stories independently of the ...

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