At best, our recycling system is deeply inefficient. Some argue it’s also a deliberate deception—an industry ploy to stop ...

Laura Ryan was studying the visual systems of fish when a spate of shark attacks at her favourite Perth surf spot got her ...

Most journalists I know feed their interview recordings to an AI called Otter, then go through each transcript word-for-word, ...

I set a deeply unimpressive personal record. The drive to work, which usually takes 45 minutes, stretched out to an ...

Craig Mckenzie was surprised that New Zealand Geographic didn’t pick this photograph as part of our 2017 feature on kākāriki ...

Get out of the city this summer and you’re bound to glimpse a kāhu. The powerful, clever native hawks are revered by those ...

Tom Neale is dropped off on Suwarrow, an uninhabited atoll some 900 kilometres north-northwest of Rarotonga, on October 7, ...

If it’s a dog-eat-dog world, and if nature is red in tooth and claw, why are so many animals nice to each other—and us?

At Manukau Heads, the current swirls in an eddy that Norman named “the Little Blowhole”. Across the harbour are the forested ...

Sixteen years ago, Richard Robinson met a Polish woman, Ania Matuszczak, diving at the Poor Knights. Now, the couple live in ...

Preserved beneath three kilometres of frigid saltwater and up to five metres of floating sea ice, Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ...

They’ve been here 300 million years. They grow on rock, or in deserts, or underwater, or on dead animals—and they can survive ...