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  • Fiji PM's fossil fuel comments 'harmful and destructive', climate network says

    News
    Pacific Fiji
    24 Oct 2023
    Lagi Seru is calling on Pacific leaders to decisively take action against fossil fuels ahead of this year’s Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in the Cook Islands.

    Pacific climate network, representing communities deeply impacted by the climate crisis, are disappointed with the recent remarks made by the Fiji PM regarding the fossil fuel industry.

    Fiji PM's fossil fuel comments 'harmful and destructive', climate network says
  • The warnings before NZ's spending on measuring cattle burps from space

    News
    New Zealand technology
    24 Oct 2023
    Artist rendering of MethaneSat.

    How did New Zealand come to invest $29m in a Bezos-backed methane satellite space plan that will not improve New Zealand's methane estimates?

    Why NZ invested $29m in a methane satellite unlikely to improve our farm emission estimates
  • Hearing, vision tests for students lead to 'significant transformation'

    News
    New Zealand health
    24 Oct 2023
    Edmund Hillary School.

    Wearing glasses for the first time or getting their hearing problems treated had been life changing for students at Edmund Hillary School - both inside and outside the classroom, according to…

    One in four kids suffer vision or hearing problems, testing at some South Auckland schools finds
  • Auckland Anniversary floods: Computerised weather modelling performed poorly, review finds

    Audio
    science weather
    24 Oct 2023
    Flooding on Candia Road in Henderson Valley, west Auckland.

    Improving MetService's severe weather forecasts to accurately predict freak destructive storms, such as the Auckland Anniversary downpour, will take "substantial and ongoing investment".

    That's one… Audio

  • MetService on criticism: Auckland Anniversary flooding was 'unprecedented'

    News
    New Zealand technology
    23 Oct 2023
    Flooding on the corner of Seabrooke and Margan Avenues in the Auckland suburb of New Lynn on 27 January 2023.

    MetService is defending itself against criticism it was unable to forecast the extreme rainfall that led to deadly flooding in Auckland in January.

    MetService on criticism: Auckland Anniversary flooding was 'unprecedented' and hard for models to foretell
  • Ted Cheeseman: Can AI and citizen science save our marine mammals?

    Audio
    technology science
    23 Oct 2023
    Photographers on an IRB in Antarctica take pictures of a whale tail / fluke in the foreground.

    Happywhale.com - a global database of of marine mammal images - harnesses the power of citizen science and rapid advancements in AI, to track some of the ocean's largest and most endangered creatures… Audio

  • 'Never seen anything like it' - Explorers travel to ends of earth to create card game

    News
    New Zealand World
    22 Oct 2023
    Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) on pack ice. The Antarctic fur seal feeds mainly on krill, but it also eats squid and fish. It is primarily a nocturnal hunter. An adult male can reach a length of up to two metres and a weight of over 200 kilograms. Around 95 per cent of the Antarctic fur seal population breed on South Georgia, Antarctica. Photographed in February. (Photo by PHOTOSTOCK-ISRAEL/SCIENCE PHOTO / PSI / Science Photo Library via AFP)

    A group of 22 inspiring explorers have returned from South Georgia after a week on one of the most remote islands in the world.

    Explorers visit Antarctic to develop educational card game for children
  • Will Stone: The Benefits of a cold plunge

    Audio 22 Oct 2023
    Church members dive into the three degrees Celsius cold water of Schwerin lake during the fifth Russian-Orthodox water sanctification in Schwerin, Germany, 19 January 2017. According to the Gregorian calendar, 19 January is the day of the baptism of Jesus. Photo: Jens Büttner/dpa-Zentralbild/dpa (Photo by JENS BUTTNER / DPA / dpa Picture-Alliance via AFP)

    Reported benefits of a cold plunge include relieving sore muscles, helping recovery post-workout, reducing inflammation, and boosting immunity. Some also report mental health benefits, like reducing… Audio

  • Disappearing dotterel nests: Defence Force implicated

    News
    New Zealand environment
    22 Oct 2023
    No caption

    Banded dotterel nests in the Waimakariri River have disappeared after Defence Force vehicles were seen doing driver training in the area.

    Disappearing dotterel nests: Defence Force implicated
  • India launches test flight ahead of sending man into space

    News
    World space
    21 Oct 2023
    This handout photo taken and released by Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on October 21, 2023, shows the lift-off of the Gaganyaan Test Vehicle (TV) from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, an island off the coast of southern Andhra Pradesh state. India on October 21 successfully launched the first unmanned trial run of its upcoming crewed orbital mission, in the latest milestone for its spacefaring ambitions. (Photo by ISRO / AFP) /

    India's space agency has carried out the first in a series of tests flights ahead of its planned mission to take astronauts into space in 2025.

    India completes crucial test in crewed space mission after delay
  • Answer to New Zealand's maths problem remains elusive

    Audio
    education
    21 Oct 2023
    Stylised illustration of teacher and students struggling with maths

    New Zealand has a maths problem. Our grades are getting worse. What is the solution? By Venetia Sherson.

  • Long Read: There and back again

    Audio
    science animals
    21 Oct 2023
    bar-tailed godwit

    By Kate Evans: Humans have been puzzling over the mysteries of animal migration and navigation for centuries. Audio

  • Long Read: There and back again

    News
    The Detail science
    21 Oct 2023
    bar-tailed godwit

    By Kate Evans: Humans have been puzzling over the mysteries of animal migration and navigation for centuries.

    Audio

    Long Read: There and back again
  • 2022 Wellington Jazz Festival: Sunday Mixtape

    Audio
    music
    20 Oct 2023
    Experimental guitarist Sally Gates performing 'Thought and Terraform' at the 2022 Wellington Jazz Festival.

    The Sunday Mixtape, commissioned by the Wellington Jazz Festival, was an opportunity for three very different Aotearoa jazz musicians to present sets of brand new music. Video, Audio

  • The school with a farm on site – but should it have animals?

    News
    Country Local Democracy Reporting
    20 Oct 2023
    Rangiora High School’s farm provides hands on experience to students.

    A Canterbury school is weighing up the future of animals on its farm as urban life spreads into the traditionally rural area.

    The school with a farm on site – but should it have animals?
  • 'Wouldn't want to do anything else' says head shepherd at Otapawa Station

    Audio
    rural farming
    20 Oct 2023
    James Robbie

    A young man who switched from working in insurance to working the land was one of the finalists for Beef and Lambs emerging leaders award. Audio

  • 'Wouldn't want to do anything else' says head shepherd at Otapawa Station

    News
    Country Life rural
    20 Oct 2023
    James Robbie

    A young man who switched from working in insurance to working the land was one of the finalists for Beef and Lambs emerging leaders award.

    Audio

    'Wouldn't want to do anything else' says head shepherd at Otapawa Station
  • Massey University job cuts: Protesters demand vice chancellor's resignation

    News
    New Zealand education
    20 Oct 2023
    Staff and student protesters entered a meeting at Massey University's campus to demonstrate against proposed cuts, and call for the resignation of Vice Chancellor Jan Thomas.

    Students and teachers at Massey University are calling for the vice chancellor to resign as the education provider plans significant job cuts.

    Massey University job cuts: Protesters demand vice chancellor's resignation
  • How fear has driven modern civilisation

    Audio 20 Oct 2023
    Robert Peckham's book Fear was published in September.

    Fear is what keeps us alive but it can also be destructive and divisive. In his new book Fear: An Alternative History of the World, historian Robert Peckham looks at the role fear has played across… Audio

  • Tongan volcanic eruption caused ozone depletion

    Audio
    science
    20 Oct 2023
    This screen grab taken from footage taken by Japan's Himawari-8 satellite and released by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan) on January 15, 2022 shows the volcanic eruption that provoked a tsunami in Tonga. The eruption was so intense it was heard as "loud thunder sounds" in Fiji more than 800 kilometres (500 miles) away.

    The eruption of Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai early last year chewed up about 5-percent of ozone over the tropical south-western Pacific and Indian Ocean.

    The volcanic plume, which reached… Audio

  • Life in the fast and slow lanes of braided rivers

    Audio
    science environment
    19 Oct 2023
    Two women stand in the shallows of a braided river channel. One is holding a device that looks like a handheld metal detector. The other is standing downstream wielding a net attached to two poles. There is a bucket next to the second woman. Beyond the riverbed, there are foothills and snow-capped mountains beneath a cloud-streaked blue sky.

    In the ever-shifting streams and channels of a braided river, creatures must adapt to change. Claire Concannon joins a researcher on the spectacular Cass River near Tekapo for a spot of electrofishing… Video, Audio

  • Life in the fast and slow lanes of braided rivers

    News
    Our Changing World science
    19 Oct 2023
    Two women stand in the shallows of a braided river channel. One is holding a device that looks like a handheld metal detector. The other is standing downstream wielding a net attached to two poles. There is a bucket next to the second woman. Beyond the riverbed, there are foothills and snow-capped mountains beneath a cloud-streaked blue sky.

    In the ever-shifting streams and channels of a braided river, creatures must adapt to change. Claire Concannon joins a researcher on the spectacular Cass River near Tekapo for a spot of electrofishing…

    Audio

    Life in the fast and slow lanes of braided rivers
  • Massey Uni staff and students fight to save jobs and studies

    News
    education
    18 Oct 2023
    Professor of behavioural ecology Dianne Brunton.

    Staff and students have until Friday to have their say on Massey's science proposals as the university deals with an expected shortfall of about $50m for the year. Audio

    Massey Uni staff and students fight to save jobs and studies
  • Massey University science staff and students fight to save their jobs and studies

    Audio
    education
    18 Oct 2023
    Massey University students hold signs that say 'stop the cuts' and 'talk to your students'.

    Science staff and students at Massey University are fighting to save their jobs, and their studies. The cash-strapped university is proposing to slash science causes from its Albany campus, which… Video, Audio

  • Our Changing World – Braided rivers

    Audio
    science environment
    18 Oct 2023
    A collage of two aerial shots of the same section of a braided river, taken four months apart. The channels of the river shift from one photo to the next.

    In braided rivers, shifting gravel and weaving water channels make for a complex and dynamic environment. But it's a habitat some species have adapted to – native fish like kōaro, and unique birds… Audio

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