Eva Corlett

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Eva Corlett

A large rare carnivorous New Zealand snail has been filmed laying an egg from its neck for the first time, in a delightfully icky stroke of luck. The department of conservation, which has been managing a captive population of Powelliphanta augusta, or the Mount Augustus snail, for almost two decades, was undertaking a routine weight check when a small, white egg started emerging from a snail’s neck.

1 week ago | ca.news.yahoo.com | Eva Corlett

New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon said the draft law was designed to make sure ‘social media companies are playing their role in keeping our kids safe’. New Zealand prime minister Christopher Luxon said the draft law was designed to make sure ‘social media companies are playing their role in keeping our kids safe’.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Eva Corlett

The largest ever global study into the safety of Covid-19 vaccines has been terminated just 13 months shy of completion, after becoming caught up in the Trump administration’s sweeping funding cuts.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Eva Corlett

At a visitor centre on the south coast of New Zealand’s capital, the blustery, briny wind is no match for the smell of thousands of decaying millipedes, which reek like decomposing vermin and rotting fish. Along the streets of Wellington’s Ōwhiro Bay, dead curled up millipedes are piled up on the footpath, as live ones march along the street. One resident says her neighbours collected five rubbish bags worth of the creatures in a week from around their home. “You’re constantly on guard.

1 month ago | theguardian.com | Eva Corlett

It was the bill that launched 300,000 public submissions, sparked New Zealand’s largest ever protest on Māori rights and prompted a haka in parliament that quickly went viral. And now the treaty principles bill, which sought to radically reinterpret New Zealand’s founding treaty between Māori tribes and the British Crown, is dead. Lawmakers voted down the controversial bill on Thursday, drawing a line under a particularly strained chapter in the country’s fight for Indigenous rights.