The bill is set to green-light projects that clash with local council planning, the government’s future goals, and our ...

That isn’t a cheerful bonfire, it’s a massive cleanup operation. In Tairāwhiti the beaches are smothered in dead wood. Mountains are sliding into rivers; forests swarm with possums. While officials ...

This afternoon I watched as members of the public streamed through the atrium in Britomart, downtown Auckland, clutching boxes of sushi or staring into the abyss of their mobile phones. They would ...

If you haven't seen this newsletter for a while, hello again. We've endured a long technical battle with Google, whose robotic filter insisted we were a Nigerian prince angling for a quick buck. In ...

This week I've had the pleasure of being in Fiji to welcome sailors participating in Citizens of the Sea—the ocean data programme we launched with Cawthron Institute in May. To date they have ...

You may have seen we ran a poll for readers to help us with our decision on the cover of the latest issue—an electric blue freshwater crayfish, or a gnarled bonsai tree. The bonsai won, and ever since ...

Hatched in rivers, mayflies rise to the surface and unfurl new wings, the final phase of their precarious and astonishing lifecycle. At dusk, on the upper Waiau River under the swingbridge entrance to ...

The last 50 years has seen a focus on cleaning up environmental messes—in policy jargon, mitigating the effects of human activities. This approach has led to the creation worldwide of institutions ...

Catching the monstrous swells that roll around the hip of the Catlins Coast, big-wave surfers challenge nature’s greatest forces simply for the rush. Shane Baxter rides mountains of water beneath ...