Christine Rose

In an island nation like ours, it’s pretty easy to access the ocean. And in Mahurangi waters, the sea is warm and protected – a...

In the 2007 book The World Without Us, author Alan Weisman considers what happens when human impact is no longer imposed on nature. He visits...

Dogs love beaches, and there’s nothing that quite represents freedom and summer as a dog running on the beach. Unfortunately, not every beach is appropriate...

The wise old men of the western Enlightenment didn’t believe animals felt pain. Descartes questioned his own existence, so doubting the intelligence and sentience of...

I love summer! As often as possible, I’m at the beach, swimming and kayaking. My favourite North Island kayaking spot is the Mahurangi. It’s as...

It’s the curse of living on the rural edge of New Zealand’s biggest, and growing, city. Big companies, Government and major infrastructure providers look for...

Humans have been eating meat for at least 10,000 years, though not at the scale and with the health and environmental costs that are generated...

Some say a weed is just a plant in the wrong place. Context makes the difference between a plant and a weed, or a pest...

My garden is home to two brown shaver hens, Speckle and Shy. They are fine company in the garden, always keen on my weeding, chatting...

For the last 20 years we’ve been learning how to recycle. We’ve developed social norms that have seen recycling become acceptable practice rather than just...