We’ve been exploring how AI interacts with the environment by focusing on a mathematical model of a trap with an AI-guided system being used to try and control an invasive species.

The difference between land and riverbed is profound in our environmental law. Ground disturbance and many kinds of development are innocent until proven guilty on land, but guilty until proven innocent on riverbed.

A zero-day vulnerability in Log4j, a seemingly harmless Java logging framework, rocked the digital world in early December 2021

How many people in Aotearoa speak te reo Māori? This may seem like a simple question to answer, but what looks simple often hides complexity.

Health inequality is an ongoing process constantly shaping people’s lives.

It’s 2025, and in Aotearoa New Zealand there are a growing number of people who believe that the Earth is flat.

In 1926 the New Zealand government recognised that a more coordinated approach to research was essential for national development.

One day in 1967, strange letters began arriving in letterboxes in Omaha, Nebraska.

Antarctica is governed in the “interests of mankind.” Yes, that includes you.

“Dad, when are you going to die?” Jesse Whitehead slowly opens his groggy eyes. He’s not ready for this.

At an undisclosed location, I enter a neglected bike shed whose interior can be charitably described as… punk.

A good detective doesn’t only look through the magnifying glass, they also put that down and look around them to understand the wider context.

Soil is complex. Beautiful. Wondrous. It gives us food, foundations and filters the air we breathe and water we drink.

We used to think that mentioning a myth when debunking it could be harmful, but research has shown that this is not the case.

Kyle Wills is not afraid of planting trees on his beef and deer farm.

You probably don’t give a second thought to what you flush down the toilet. But wastewater and all that it contains provides valuable knowledge to researchers.

Anjuli Muller is a baker. Running a research project using co-production has made her more comfortable at sitting with the discomfort of having no recipe to follow.

Amidst the ebb and flow of seasons in Dovedale Valley, a tree has stood witness to the dance of life for centuries untold.

The world is not a collection of static things, but a dynamic flow of information across time.

Wildlife biologist Isabel Castro spends a lot of time in the dark studying the habits of kiwi.