MOTAT is striking a balance between the past and the present with a new exhibition called Hautū Aunoa Autopilot.

A species of native fungi has been photographed glowing with bioluminescence – a fact that has previously eluded mycologists. A Mycena roseoflava was recently found during the annual “fungal foray” on ...

You all would have seen it – the poster detailing the fish of New Zealand’s waters in every fish and chip shop in the country. You may not have realised that each and every one of those fish had been ...

In the same valley that Aotearoa’s last surviving mainland kākāpō were found in the 1970s, a rare and beautiful species of skink was discovered in 2004. Hanging on to life in the steep, glaciated ...

The climate crisis has again been at the forefront of speeches by Pacific Islands leaders at the UN General Assembly this year. At a time when the world is preoccupied with the pandemic, island states ...

The chairman and a board director of Rio Tinto will resign over the Juukan Gorge disaster. The big miner announced chairman Simon Thompson and non-executive director Michael L’Estrange, a former top ...

A biotech start-up with a whimsical name is moving to shake up New Zealand’s reliance on cows for milk protein. Auckland-based Daisy Lab is raising seed funds to scale up its work on producing casein ...

The Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes Programme is in charge of improving Lake Rotorua’s water quality, with the goal of removing 320 tonnes of nitrogen from the lake by 2032. Jesse speaks to Helen Creagh the ...

A new charitable trust is hoping a collaboration with Corrections will result in a win-win: jobs for soon-to-be-released inmates and improved quality in the regions waterways. The Ko Waitangi Te Awa ...

Air and ground crews continue to fight a huge wildfire in Canterbury’s Mackenzie Country. The fire service says more than 1600 hectares have been burnt. Four crews have spent the night trying to keep ...

In 1972 a number of heavy titanium spheres, about twice the size of a basketball, dropped out of the sky and landed in paddocks across Ashburton. But was it Aliens? An elaborate hoax? No. It was ...