Our Changing World

Gas shortages, a reversal of the ban of offshore oil and gas exploration, and a government plan to double geothermal energy in the next 15 years… There’s been a lot in the news recently about New… Read more Audio

Our youth vaping rates are among the highest in the world. How did we get here and what will this mean for the future of our rangitahi? A 2018 court case paved the way for a loose regulatory start for… Read more Audio

Time now for Our Changing World, and we're catching up with host Claire Concannon in person this week. Claire explains to Jesse how she found an excuse to go to a brewery for work. Audio

More and more of us are reaching for low or no-alcohol beers. As the market grows, the options are also expanding - but brewing beer without alcohol fermentation presents a tricky puzzle. In… Read more Audio

Project Tongariro was established as a living memorial for five people who died in a tragic helicopter accident. Last November, the project turned 40 years old. Over those four decades, activities… Read more Audio

During World War II, sonar operators discovered a ‘false seabed’ that appeared to move upwards during the nighttime. In fact, the sound waves were bouncing off huge numbers of small critters. This… Read more Audio

In the core of the sun atoms fuse together releasing huge amounts of energy. If scientists can figure out how to do it efficiently here on Earth, fusion holds great promise as a solution to our future… Read more Audio

For a long time, nuclear fusion was viewed as a powerful, but unachievable, energy source, because the technological challenges were just too great. But recent advances, particularly in the… Read more Audio

One hundred new ‘sea pods’ have been installed along the sea wall in Tauranga's Te Awanui harbour. Justine Murray joins a marine scientist to check out the rocky shoreline, and find out how these… Read more Audio

In Our Changing World, the team heads to the Mackenzie region in the South Island to meet one of New Zealand's rarest fish - the lowland longjaw galaxias. Dean Nelson, a senior biodiversity ranger at… Read more Audio

Speckled, pencil-thin and sporting an underbite: the lowland longjaw galaxias is New Zealand’s rarest freshwater fish species. With just seven known populations, this species is considered… Read more Audio

The story of tuberculosis goes back to the start of recorded human history, and since the 1800s it’s estimated it has been responsible for over 1 billion deaths. In New Zealand today we don’t have… Read more Audio