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Whatever it was, Christopher Dean didn’t know it had snuck up on him until he turned and shone his torch. In the dark of 2.00 am, the eyes looked huge, “the size of 50 cent pieces”, and glowed green ...

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 ...

When I call Ramari Oliphant Stewart, she’s busy nailing down a new roof ahead of a cyclone that threatens to lash the West Coast. She built the house herself, here in the teeth of the Tasman Sea on a ...

On the evening of December 25, 1953, radios around New Zealand tuned in, as usual, to the Queen’s annual Christmas Day broadcast to the Commonwealth. But this year, the voice wasn’t coming from very ...

Holding your breath. It’s as simple as that, and as hard. Try it now as you read. Take a quick deep breath… hold… and read on. Right now you are trying to ...

In the South Island’s remote subalpine regions, a highly terrestrial songbird—one of two surviving species of New Zealand wren—has hopped, chirped and flown in the face of extinction. There are four ...

Virtual Reality / 360 Video - NZ 360 Nov 15: Leigh Wharf The irony is that the camera can't see far enough to properly document the worst sites in the Hauraki Gulf—they're too turbid to see more than ...

Grebes are an ancient group of diving birds, quite unrelated to ducks and swans. The southern, or Australasian, crested grebe is one of New Zealand’s least known aquatic birds, a secretive but ...

In the last century illegal whisky production in Southland’s Hokonui Hills was a subject of police investigations. Today that shady past is a cause for celebration. The legend of Hokonui leads back to ...

A forest is a place of peace. We go there to soak up the stillness, the quietude. But even the most Zen of gardens is in fact a frenetic trading floor, abuzz with an exchange of commodities and ...

A century ago, in December 1908, Ernest Rutherford was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his “investigations into the disintegration of the elements” or, put more simply, for helping establish ...