Our Changing World

An international group of experts have suggested a new way of ranking invasive aliens by environmental impact to produce 'Black Lists' Read more Audio

Three estuarine monitoring buoys have been installed in the Kaipara Harbour to identify sources of fine sediment pollution Read more Audio

A tribute to Joan Wiffen, a self-taught palaeontologist who discovered New Zealand's first dinosaur bone in a Hawke's Bay streambed in the 1970s. Read more Audio

NIWA has been measuring how wind speeds up across rough ground in the Belmont Hills with the aim of improving the building code Read more Audio

Photonic Innovations is developing a toxic gas detector which uses laser spectroscopy Read more Audio

Tsunami hazards for New Zealand were recently revised based on new knowledge about very large earthquakes on plate boundaries Read more Audio

Researchers at the MacDiarmid Institute are using 3D printing and self-assembling materials inspired by biominerals to recreate bone. Read more Audio

University of Adelaide evolutionary biologist Alan Cooper discusses his latest findings that have redrawn the family tree of the kiwi. Read more Audio

Meet the kiwi's close cousin, the flightless elephant bird from Madagascar, and find out what ancient DNA tells us about prehistoric New Zealand. Read more Audio

A mobile phone app has been developed which can tell visually impaired users where they are in a particular building Read more Audio

A NZ/German expedition discovers frozen methane and gas vents off the east coast in an area with active submarine landslides. Read more Audio

Pacific geckos are nocturnal and searching for them involves using spotlights at night in the hope of catching a glimpse of their eyes or belly Read more Audio