Our Changing World

A team of scientists drilling through thick Antarctic ice were surprised to discover fish surviving more than 500 km from open ocean Read more Audio

In winter the Bounty Islands are just bare rock. In summer they are packed with breeding Salvin's albatrosses and erect-crested penguins Read more Audio

When a farmer embarked on an experiment to excavate deep volcanic layers and bring them to the top, he found that the ancient soils produced greener pastures. Read more Audio

How research into the metabolism of the TB bacterium is helping in the development of a new class of antibiotics Read more Audio

A single gene seems to predispose people to becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol Read more Audio

Whitebait Connections takes school children out to measure the health of local streams and rivers. Read more Audio

Alison Ballance joins a DOC expedition to remote Antipodes Island, and discovers its strange - and noisy - inhabitants Read more Audio

New Zealand and Australian scientists head off on a six-week voyage to Antarctica to study top predators in the Southern Ocean. Read more Audio

The Antarctic Heritage Trust completed an ambitious project to conserve three historic huts used by Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton during their Antarctic expeditions a century ago.

Predator-free Matiu-Somes Island, in Wellington Harbour, is a hotspot for little penguins - and penguin research Read more Audio

An international team of scientists has issued a warning that we have now crossed four out of nine planetary boundaries. Read more Audio

The Joint Clinic at Dunedin Hospital uses exercise and manual therapy to help osteoarthritis sufferers remain fit and active Read more Audio