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Troubled waters
Swimmable rivers or more hooves on pastures—is there a way of improving water quality without paralysing the primary sector? Or has agriculture reached an environmental tipping point?
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Swap a forest park for an immigration dam
Is the Department of Conservation allowed to exchange conservation land for farmland? No, ruled the Supreme Court on Thursday morning. This is the land DOC wanted to swap—and why.
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#SundayDoco: islands of the iguana
How did a three-foot-long tropical South American tree-dwelling lizard come to be marooned in the middle of the Pacific, thousands of miles from its home?
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Edward Wilson's bird
Why did an Antarctic explorer carry with him a painting he’d made in Switzerland a decade earlier? And how did it end up on the western edge of the Ross Sea, 700 kilometres north of where he travelled? It remains a mystery.
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A pardon for Rua Kēnana
Plans are underway to grant a statutory pardon to Tūhoe prophet and healer Rua Kēnana, who was imprisoned for resisting arrest after troops stormed his Te Urewera settlement in 1916.
Here's the story of what happened.
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CRITTER OF THE WEEK
The jewelled gecko is endemic to the South Island and classified as at risk and declining.
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WAVE FORECASTING
Advances in mathematical models, satellite technology and supercomputers are giving us an ever-clearer picture of how waves form and propagate across the ocean.
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WHY WOMEN LIVE LONGER THAN MEN
In New Zealand, the average life expectancy for a man born in 2016 is 91 years, but a woman born last year can expect to live to 93. Why is that?
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