Rina Diane Caballar

Some Indigenous groups are developing their own data protection technologies—work that demonstrates how ordinary people have the power to sidestep the tech companies and data brokers who hold and sell the most intimate details of their identities, lives and cultures.

With Māori experts leading the way, the country is planning to slash light pollution at an unprecedented scale.

DNA sequencing, GPS tracking and tailored diets are slowly restoring the endangered kākāpō

Years after a massive wildfire destroyed its home, the fate of a critically endangered moth may still be in jeopardy.

In New Zealand, rebuilding these kelp ecosystems is a community effort

Blending Māori knowledge into government-funded crayfish research, supporters say, simply makes for better science.

In the past 30 years, a wilderness has grown up in the heart of New Zealand's capital – so successfully its neighbours now complain about the raucous racket of rare birds. But this is just the first step in a much longer plan for wilderness in the city.

Much like its herbivorous namesake, the ocean-dwelling "leaf sheep" grazes for food; however, it supplements its diet in a unique way: through the power of the sun.

Image credit: alif_abdulrahman, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

At the Lions Ōtari Plant Conservation Laboratory in Wellington — part of the country’s only botanical garden focused on native plants — Lehnebach and colleagues are working to bring Cooper’s black orchid back from the brink.

The Philippines’ traditional three-hulled boat is being redesigned, to draw its power not from fossil fuels, but from the energy of the waves.

New Zealand has a fledgling space industry with unique geographic advantages and government and commercial incentives for growth. In this regional focus, Dawn Aerospace, SpaceBase, Kea Aerospace, Rocket Lab, and others talk about the innovation happening in this island nation.

An emerging trend in interior design reframes the built environment as a way to help people flourish.

The Beautiful Chemistry Project re-creates the era’s cosmetics to find the science behind them.

India-based start-up Next Big Innovation Labs (NBIL) is taking 3D printing to the next level, using the technology for bioprinting human skin. Aside from manufacturing a potential viable replacement for animal testing, NBIL hopes to bring Innoskin to the medical sector for clinical use cases such as skin grafts to treat injuries.
Image credit: courtesy of NBIL

As our reliance on tech increases, there’s a growing need to reduce e-waste while conserving metals vital to building tech products. The solution may lie in the tiniest of organisms: microbes. These microscopic life forms can extract metals such as cobalt, gold, and platinum from the devices we toss into landfills.