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Who's biked the Heaphy track?
Australian Geographic filmed their bike crew taking to the trail. Looks rather tempting!
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New York is getting an underground park, the lucky things.
Cables will transfer sunlight down into the abandoned trolley terminal, so plants and trees can grow freely.
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What a fantastic design! David Suhami's animal pocket knife is pleasing on the eye, and you can choose from a giraffe, rhino and antelope.
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A Grey Zone in White Water
In the early 1980s, I became keen on white-water kayaking. My interest developed through friends of my…Read more
Point Blank - Brett Phibbs
In 1993 Brett Phibbs began shooting for the New Zealand Herald. It was his first job. “I…Read more
A Stitch in Time
The highly endangered hihi has an appetite for sex to rival rabbits, but promiscuity and infidelity may…Read more
Patriotic Rotation
Peter Malcouronne investigates "the strange delusion, borne out of isolation, that we are the greatest country on…Read more
Sunken Gold: the treasure of the Elingamite
Wade Doak was 45 metres down, in water “cold as fish blood”, finning from rock to rock…Read more
In the field 111: circling sharks
Protected for two decades as a marine reserve, the Kermadec archipelago is replete with apex predators, particularly…Read more
Gone With The Wind
In July this year, more than 100,000 broad-billed prions perished in the largest seabird wreck in New…Read more
Relative Value: Editorial Sept-Oct 2011
Once, society traded in food, then standardised weights of commodities and property. The cash economy that followed—thousands…Read more
Weed wrangling
Weeds from abroad can be controlled using pests from abroad. The noxious, vine-smothering banana passionfruit vine, Passiflora…Read more
The Bird Whisperer
Steve Sawyer is something of a seabird evangelist. The endangered species recovery specialist and former Department of…Read more
A rush of blood to the head
Divers have been dragging on regulators and sashaying around underwater in neoprene since the 1950s, but prior…Read more
In the Field: Neil Fitzgerald
When I call Neil Fitzgerald, he’s seconded deep in the podocarp forests of the Blue Duck Creek…Read more
Humans: navigate like bats?
If you lost your sight, you could learn to echolocate just as bats and whales navigate with…Read more