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The hunting of the snipe
An unlikely crew is given the assignment of catching birds in butterfly nets on a weather-beaten subantarctic island.
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Mother Aubert's medicines
Cannabis has been illegal in New Zealand for the past 90 years, but before the Dangerous Drugs Act of 1927, it was widely available and cheap. It cost about a shilling an ounce, or in today’s currency, about $6 for 30 grams.
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Lined up
New Zealand was the first country in the world to adopt a standard time. Before 1868, each town operated on its own 'local time'.
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Birdwatching from space
A satellite was used to count two albatross colonies near the Chathams that hadn’t been monitored for more than a decade due to their isolation.
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What to expect when you're de-extincting
University of Otago professor Philip Seddon suggests a few things to consider before bringing Haast’s eagle back from the grave.
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#SundayDoco
Kea, our mountain parrots, star in a tale of theft, murder, kidnap and comedy.
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HUGE ICEBERG BREAKS OFF FROM ANTARCTICA
The giant block that’s calved off the Larsen C ice shelf weighs about a trillion tonnes, and it's twice the size of Stewart Island.
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BIKINI ATOLL IS FULL OF LIFE
Not many things can survive, let alone flourish, in the radioactive crater at Bikini atoll. But a team of marine scientists found it teeming with coral and other animals.
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