Our Changing World

The Wellington Lions Rugby team and Ricoh staff join forces to clean up the coastline of the Taputeranga Marine Reserve Read more Audio

Volunteer groups celebrated 10 years of Greater Wellington's Care Group programme by planting 10,000 trees Audio

Astronomer Karen Pollard and her team explain how the unique"music"of each star helps them deduce its internal structure Read more Audio

New findings suggest the bacteria that cause meningococcal disease are resilient and can even survive outside a host Audio

Calcium carbonate from marine creatures could help make better joint implants. Audio

IRL is developing an extremely cold 'fridge', a cryocooler, to chill high temperature superconductors Read more Audio

Measurements of carbon moving in and out of soils is helping build a 'carbon balance' for different kinds of pastoral farming Audio

Increasing carbon dioxide is making the world's oceans more acidic; what does this mean for marine life? Read more Audio

University of Otago and NIWA scientists are measuring people's UV exposure with dosimeters to compare with vitamin D levels Audio

An ongoing research programme is developing new foods to release energy more slowly and improve health Audio

A tribute to Sir Graham Liggins, better known as Mont Liggins, who died this week on Tuesday 24 August Audio

Miriam Sharpe and Kurt Krause want to identify glow worms' light-emitting protiens for use in medical and other purposes Audio