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Kate Evans

Kate Evans is a freelance journalist who lives by the sea in rural New Zealand. She is a contributor to New Zealand Geographic, Scientific American, and The Guardian, and is obsessed with how human lives are entwined with those of plants. Five years ago she planted a kauri tree on her daughter's placenta, a traditional practice for Māori and other New Zealanders. You can follow her on Twitter @kate_g_evans.

Alex Pike's Latest Articles

Linda Broome holds a captured mountain pygmy possum atop Mt Blue Cow, in Australia’s Kosciuszko National Park. Every spring, she returns to the park with a team of volunteers to monitor possum populations.

Of Moths and Marsupials

By Alex Pike & Kate Evans

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April 26, 2023

The ancient relationship between the mountain pygmy possum and the bogong moth reveals the complexity of global climate change—and the lengths people may have to go to save some species from extinction.

A chambered nautilus and fuzzy nautilus swim side-by-side. Photograph by Peter Ward

Downward Spiral

By David Abbott & Kate Evans

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June 4, 2022

The nautilus’s lineage made it through all five of Earth’s previous mass extinctions. But can it survive the Anthropocene?

Large kauri tree framed by green foliage, Waipoua Forest, Northland. Photograph by Arno Gasteiger.

Swamp Sentinels

By Arno Gasteiger & Kate Evans

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February 18, 2021

Buried in mud for millennia, some of New Zealand's ancient kauri trees are revealing surprising clues about Earth's climate—past, present, and future.