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    Our Changing World for Thursday 28 April 2016

    • Previous Episode: Thursday, 21 April 2016
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    • Flicking the switch for electric cars

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      9:55 PM.A switch to electric transport could go a long way towards reducing New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions. Veronika Meduna takes a road trip with other electric car owners. Read more Audio

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      Flicking the switch for electric cars
    • Acting on climate change - Royal Society of NZ report

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      9:40 PM.In its latest report on climate change, the Royal Society of New Zealand lays out options for how we coudl reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Read more Audio

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    • Thar she goes! On the tail of the Kermadec humpback whales

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      Whale in mid air

      9:38 PM.Satellite tagging has revealed that humpback whales that breed in Oceania socialise at Raoul Island in the Kermadecs and has shown where in Antarctica they go to feed. Read more Audio

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    • Nematodes from the deep

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      Spiky segmented worm - black and white scanning electron microscope image

      9:20 PM.Sediment samples collected from 6,000 - 9,000m deep in the Kermadec Trench were teeming with tiny nematode worms – over 100 new species were collected from just four samples. Read more Audio

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    • Survivors - New Zealand's tiny native frogs

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      Small native frog on the forest floor

      9:06 PM.After 35 years of counting threatened Archey's frog on the Coromandel Peninsula, Ben Bell has seen their numbers crash due to the chytrid fungal disease, and the population slowly recover. Read more Audio, Gallery

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      Survivors - New Zealand's tiny native frogs
    • Previous Episode: Thursday, 21 April 2016
    • Next Episode: Thursday, 5 May 2016

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