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COVER PHOTO HEADLINE : In the warming Southern Ocean, some penguins are thriving while others fail. Why? And what does it mean for our future?
CONTENTS : Departments : UP FRONT EDITORIAL -- IN THE FIELD -- VIEWFINDER Photographers document the record-setting January storm, and its awful sequel, Cyclone Gabrielle -- GeoNEWS Sediment at Sandspit, sunfish vs orca, kiekie, pyroclastic surges get bigger, runaway COVID-19 variants and surf breaks fizzle out -- PROFILE Antarctic historian David Harrowfield on a lifetime of curious collecting -- JUST SO Faeces have a lot to teach us. They can reveal secrets about the lives of extinct animals, and the troubles of endangered ones.
REFLECTION CULTURE Just days after it took off for the country's first flight, the Walshes' plane somesaulted and smashed into the ground after one of its skids caught on the Takanini turf during a test run. It was eaten by calves -- HISTORY How a town called Maxwell got - and lost - its name.
CONTENTS : Features :
THAT'S A ROBIN MORRISON SHOT Thirty years after Morrison's death, the definitive photographic documentary of 1970s New Zealand is republished.
THE FUTURE OF THE WORLD IS WRITTEN IN PENGUIN BLOOD Erect-crested penguins are one of the most mysterious birds on the planet. We have little idea how many there are, what they eat, where they forage, or how their environment may be changing as the Southern Ocean warms.
JUNGLE WARFARE Hundreds of pest plant species - many of them garden escapees - run rampart in New Zealand's biggest city. Now, its citizens are fighting back.
FOR THE LOVE OF WORMS This creature is so old it defies imagination. Its genome is far more complex than ours - big enough to crash one of the country's most powerful supercomputers. Will we lose the species before we glimpse the ancient stories it has to tell?
AT THE MERCY OF THE ICE In the Antarctic summer of 1972, four young scientists set off on a trimaran from Cape Bird for a quick outing on a clear day. They would spend the next five days jumping between ice floes, risking their lives with every leap.