Kate Evans, flat out reporting her tree ferns feature (page 64). To be fair, this trip landed right in the middle of the pre-Christmas flurry, and she’d just managed to bust her phone in a harried ...

For all their showiness, tree ferns are extraordinary survivors. They hold their secrets close—but now, scientists are finding new ways to unfurl them. In an underground carpark at the University of ...

Cats use theirs for balance, canines for communication. The tails of marine creatures propel them through the water, while those of pīwakawaka help the birds to change direction mid-flight. Monkeys ...

How could our food systems look different? Are there other ways to get produce from fields to kitchens? And even if those methods are less efficient, what do we stand to gain in the process? These are ...

The harlequin gecko does many things that seem high risk. It stays stock still whenever it’s cold. It lives in extreme slow motion. Somehow, it’s managed to survive on predator-ridden Rakiura/Stewart ...

As a preschooler in Gloriavale Christian Community, near Greymouth, Theophila Pratt would hold picture books up to the light so she could see the words and illustrations that had been carefully whited ...

Wairūrū Marae is across the road from the beach, so if anyone looks out of the windows of the hall, they’ll see Waiau Bay sparkling through the waharoa, the gateway, and the forest-covered hills ...

Let’s start with the name. The “ch” is silent, which makes “chthonic” a lot easier to say. It’s ancient Greek for “things that have to do with the underworld”, as in the afterlife, but Wellington ...

Photographer Erica Sinclair shot half of this magazine, occasionally with her children in tow—her daughter Maiea was happy to settle in with a book while Mum documented a remarkable community garden ...

When schools opened in the summer of 1924, thousands of tweens around New Zealand were faced with an exotic and potentially life-defining new hurdle. The Education Department, caught up in the ...

All his life, Jay Kuethe has been a collector. When he was growing up in 1990s Britain, his immigrant Dutch parents gave him an old-fashioned, outdoor childhood. From the age of around five, he grew ...

Plantation forests take up about seven per cent of New Zealand’s land area, mostly in the North Island. Now, researchers have mapped these forests using a combination of airborne laser scanning and ...