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Our Changing World for Thursday 25 August 2016

  • Previous Episode: Thursday, 11 August 2016
  • Next Episode: Thursday, 1 September 2016
  • Solving the penguin housing crisis - one home at a time

    environment
    Volunteers planting

    9:20 PM.Conservation groups are replanting native vegetation around Wellington's Miramar Peninsula to provide safe homes for little blue penguins and food for other native birds. Read more Audio, Gallery

  • 'Dimorphism' - a poem by Janis Freegard

    environment books
    Cushion plant and divaricating shrub

    9:15 PM.Poet Janis Freegard reads 'Dimorphism', from her poetry book The Glass Rooster, comparing divaricating plants to cushion plants. Read more Audio

  • Glow in the dark - firefly squid and bioluminescence

    science
    The Japanese firefly squid

    9:06 PM.Miriam Sharpe and Kurt Krause are investigating the proteins that glow worms and firefly squid use to glow in the dark. Read more Video, Audio

  • Previous Episode: Thursday, 11 August 2016
  • Next Episode: Thursday, 1 September 2016
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