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Our Changing World
Getting out in the field and the lab to bring you New Zealand stories about science, nature and the environment. With Alison Ballance.
Thursdays 9:06pm, repeated at 1:05am Sundays. One feature plays at 3:35pm on Wednesdays

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What bird is that?
10 Sep 2020An ecologist and a mathematician discover that teaching a computer to recognise bird calls from acoustic recorders is an interesting challenge. Read more Audio
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Our Changing World for 10 September 2020
10 Sep 2020An ecologist and a mathematician are collaborating on open source software called AviaNZ that will allow a computer to identify bird calls. Audio
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A decade of earthquakes
3 Sep 2020Ten years after the Darfield earthquake, three seismologists from GeoNet reflect on a decade of big earthquakes and what we've learnt from them. Read more Audio
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Our Changing World for 3 September 2020
3 Sep 2020Three seismologists from GeoNet reflect on the decade of big earthquakes that began 10 years ago with the Darfield earthquake in Canterbury. Audio
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Time travelling with a climate scientist
27 Aug 2020Dead corals cast up the shore of Aitutaki, in the Cook Islands, provide a window into the Pacific Ocean's marine climate hundreds of years ago. Read more Audio
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Our Changing World for 27 August 2020
27 Aug 2020A time-travelling climate scientist is using dead corals to investigate past marine climates in the Pacific. Audio
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Green chemistry - better, safer, more sustainable
20 Aug 2020From safer solvents to make better batteries, to catalysts that can clean up wastewater, green chemists are developing better ways of making stuff. Read more Audio
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Our Changing World for 20 August 2020
20 Aug 2020Scientists at the Centre for Green Chemical Science at the University of Aukalnd, are developing cleaner greener processes and products. Audio
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How sound influences the taste of food
Food scientist Nazimah Hamid from AUT says that the sound of the space we eat in can have surprising effects on the taste of food. Read more Audio
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Our Changing World for 13 August 2020
The sensory lab at AUT is used for food testing and tests can involve all the senses, including sound. Audio
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Covid-19 unmasked: experts discuss coronavirus
'Covid-19 unmasked: understanding the outbreak' is a panel discussion from the 2020 New Zealand International Science Festival. Read more Audio
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Our Changing World for 6 August 2020
A panel of virologists from the University of Otago discuss research into covid-19. Audio
Our Changing World
Thursdays 9:06pm, repeated at 1:05am Sundays. One feature plays at 3:35pm on Wednesdays
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