Kate Evans

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Journalist and Writer at Freelance

Journalist and Writer at New Zealand Geographic.

Nature writer & ocean journalist @NZGeographic also @Sciam @BBC_Future @bioGraphic. FEIJOA: A Story of Obsession and Belonging out Mar 2024 with @HachetteNZ

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Articles

The Bookshelf Easter Special: Irish writer Niall Williams

1 week ago | abc.net.au | Kate Evans |Cassie McCullagh

Irish writer Niall Williams with Kate Evans at the 2025 Adelaide Writers Week — with a focus on his Faha novels, History of the Rain, This is Happiness and (his latest) Time of the Child. Williams is also a screenwriter, playwright and travel writer — and his first novel, Four Letters of Love, has just been released as a film.
The best new books released in March, from Diana Reid, Colum McCann and Abdulrazak Gurnah

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Kate Evans |Claire Nichols |Nicola Heath |Declan Fry |Rosie Ward

Welcome to ABC Arts' monthly book column: a shortlist of new releases read and recommended by The Bookshelf's Kate Evans, The Book Show's Claire Nichols, ABC Arts' Nicola Heath and critics Declan Fry and Rosie Ofori Ward. All five read voraciously and their only guidelines for a recommendation here: make it a new release and make it something you think is great.
Dark Skies, a quest and nature writing in Inga Simpson’s The Thinning

Oct 31, 2024 | abc.net.au | Kate Evans |Cassie McCullagh

The Dressmaker’s backstory, a universe of stars to expand our ideas about nature writing, and fragments and tricks galore: Kate and Cassie read Inga Simpson’s The Thinning, Brian Castro’s Chinese Postman and Rosalie Ham’s Molly with guests Ella Jeffery and Amanda Hampson BOOKS Inga Simpson, The Thinning, Hachette Brian Castro, Chinese Postman, Giramondo Rosalie Ham, Molly, Picador GUESTS Dr Ella Jeffery, poet and lecturer in Creative Writing at Griffith University, Qld; ABC Radio National...
Australiens Megafauna: Rätselhafter Riesenvogel war eine »Giga-Gans«

Jun 4, 2024 | spektrum.de | Kate Evans

BerichtLesedauer ca. 3 MinutenDruckenTeilenAustraliens Megafauna: Rätselhafter Riesenvogel war eine »Giga-Gans«Fossilien enthüllen das unerwartete Gesicht eines 225 Kilogramm schweren Vogels. Er lebte einst in einem Australien, das feucht und fruchtbar war. Exklusive Übersetzung ausVor nur 50 000 Jahren streiften Giganten über den australischen Kontinent. Darunter waren ein nashorngroßes Wombat, eine Eidechse so lang wie ein Krokodil, ein wuchtiges Känguru und ein Beutellöwe.
Taking on water

Apr 3, 2024 | nzgeo.com | Kate Evans

Follow Our Changing World on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRADIO or wherever you listen to your podcastsThis is an updated excerpt from the July – August 2023 New Zealand Geographic feature article ‘Taking on water’. In 1975 five square kilometres from Cape Rodney to Okakari Point was made a marine reserve, the first in New Zealand, and possibly, the world. “Nothing to do at Goat Island anymore,” declared the local newspaper. Three hundred thousand people now visit every year.
Fish out of water

Mar 14, 2024 | nzgeo.com | Kate Evans

Our Changing World Fish out of water March 14, 2024 Ocean Beach used to process lambs, a record of 20 000 in one day, but now it’s gullies and troughs run with seawater, not blood. Home to the New Zealand Abalone company and Manaaki Whitebait it’s become one the frontiers of New Zealand aquaculture – growing fish indoors. It’s not an easy task. Growing fish on land means taking responsibility for their needs throughout their life cycle. First you must identify those needs, account for them in...
Kina-nomics

Mar 6, 2024 | nzgeo.com | Kate Evans

Our Changing World Kina-nomics March 7, 2024 Kina numbers have exploded as we’ve eaten too many of their predators – like big snapper and crayfish – that usually keep them in check. The urchins munch through kelp and seaweed, leaving bare rock and little else. The kina themselves end up suffering too – they persist in these zones as zombies, eating little and barely producing any roe. Luckily, these barrens can be reversed and kelp forests restored when the kina are removed. Kina-nomics...
Glow it up

Feb 25, 2024 | nzgeo.com | Kate Evans |Giselle Clarkson

Just so Glow it up Plants can do it. Fish can do it. Worms can do it. Even single-celled plankton can do it. Why does so much of the natural world get to glow in the dark? The yacht Ganesha was off the southern coast of Java in August 2019 when it happened.
Death of a titan

Feb 24, 2024 | nzgeo.com | Kate Evans

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The sonar trap

Feb 24, 2024 | nzgeo.com | Kate Evans

Every time there’s a stranding—especially when dozens of whales or dolphins run aground, such as in Mahia last month—we mourn, and wonder what drives the phenomenon. Scientists can’t answer that with certainty yet: strandings are ethically, logistically and financially tricky to study. But in general, there are a few key theories. Cetaceans can get into trouble while fleeing predators, or hunting in the shallows. Rough seas, dirty water, and loud noises can interfere with their hearing and vision.