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Our Changing World
Stories about science and nature from out in the field and inside the labs across Aotearoa New Zealand. Winner 2022 New Zealand Radio Awards Best Factual Podcast - Episodic
Thursdays 7:30pm, repeated 1:15am Sundays. One feature plays 3:35pm Wednesdays.
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The resilience of crayfish in Tauranga Harbour
30 Jun 2022PhD student Kiamaia Ellis describes crayfish as a vulnerable taonga species. Local iwi in Tauranga believe the crayfish population is decreasing because of urban, industrial and harvesting pressures… Read more Audio
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Helping seabirds return to Karioi
23 Jun 2022Working with the community and local schools, the Karioi Project aims to turn the tide on biodiversity loss in their area. In recent years they've rallied around the grey-faced petrel, or Ōi, who they… Read more Audio
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The promises and perils of chemistry research
Two stories about the promise and perils of chemistry research. From a team recreating Renaissance beauty recipes in the hopes of rediscovering a 'miracle ingredient', to a researcher investigating… Read more Audio
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Digging into the past of sleeping giant faults
The Nevis Fault is a sleeping giant fault, one that awakens only every 10,000 years or so. This week, a team of geologists use paleoseismic trenching to answer questions about this fault and to figure… Read more Video, Audio
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Meet the winners of the 2021 Prime Minister's Science Prize
2 Jun 2022It's Prime Minister's Science Prize time! We meet some of the people awarded the 2021 prizes for their mahi. Read more Audio
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Biodiversity and the city
26 May 2022Researchers from the University of Waikato are tackling the tricky question of how to restore native biodiversity in our urban areas. Read more Audio
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The red seaweed of Otago Harbour
19 May 2022We join Marine Science PhD student Namrata Chand on her Autumn field work collecting seaweed samples to learn more about this 'underdog of the ocean'. Read more Audio
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Business not as usual for heart health
Pūtahi Manawa / Healthy Hearts for Aotearoa has an ambitious goal – to close the inequity gaps in heart health. Researchers in this Centre of Research Excellence explain the gaps that exist and how… Read more Audio
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Naturally rare and threatened
5 May 2022Claire Concannon meets with some of the people working to protect New Zealand's naturally rare ecosytems and the endangered plants found within them. Read more Audio
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Bonus Episode: 2022 A Boomer Year for Kākāpō
28 Apr 2022Alison Ballance joins the kākāpō recovery team on Pukenui Anchor Island to hear how the 2021/2022 kākāpō breeding season is going. Read more Audio
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Frozen in time
A visit to Scott's Terra Nova hut to learn about the care given to the objects by Antarctic Heritage Trust conservators. This is an edit of the Antarctic Heritage Trust's podcast 'Frozen in Time… Read more Audio
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Researching best care for the smallest of patients
Justin Gregory finds out about a study investigating how pre-term babies are fed during their first few weeks, and whether there is a better way. Read more Audio
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