Wallace Chapman

While climate change is a hot topic globally, it seems leading international finance journals are mostly silent on the subject. Despite the economic and business impacts of climate change, there's… Audio

Long before the hashtag #MeToo began and the dark underbelly of abuse of women in Hollywood came to light, two New Zealand women were exploring, for a theatre piece, women's sexuality in both negative… Video, Audio

Cows are far smarter and more emotionally connected to each other than we give them credit for, says farmer Rosamund Young. Audio

Para Paheer was one of thousands of Tamils targeted during the 26-year civil war in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. The book The Power of Good People gives a riveting first-hand account of the events… Audio

We may have been the first country to give women the vote, but the New Zealand women who served in WWI as doctors, ambulance drivers and munitions workers have largely been left out of our written… Audio

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was winging her way to Australia on Sunday morning, where she was to meet with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. RNZ's political editor Jane Patterson previews… Audio

A University of Auckland researcher has won $300,000 in funding to study young children's perceptions of products marketed to them as healthy. Sixteen children from two schools will wear portable… Audio

RNZ Sports Reporter Joe Porter talks about the Black Caps vs India second T20 and the All Blacks vs the Barbarians. Audio

Tongan and Samoans have been involved in violent clashes and flag burning in South Auckland this week and questions have been raised over whether the people involved were regular trouble-makers… Audio

The cleaning industry is notorious for paying workers low wages. Most cleaners earn the minimum wage - that's $15.75 an hour for adults. Wellington start-up The Fresh Desk wants to change that. Its… Audio

Ian Taylor is one of this country's great inventors and runs a world-leading graphics company, Animation Research Limited. Its offshoot Virtual Eye brings to life sports such as cricket, the America's… Video, Audio

Is there something about act of wearing sunglasses that is an extension of yourself? Dr Vanessa Brown, senior lecturer in design and visual culture at Nottingham Trent University, says taking away… Audio

Australian rocker Jimmy Barnes’ first memoir, Working Class Boy, recalled a childhood tainted by alcoholism, abuse, violence and poverty in Glasgow and then Adelaide. The book ended with Barnes, a… Video, Audio

Does staring at your phone for hours on end serve any practical purpose? Are smartphones hijacking our mind? Audio

Armine Yalnizyan is a Canadian economist known for presenting an alternative analysis of economics, she says the world economy today looks a lot like 100 years ago. Audio

New research shows almost one in five Kiwi teenagers have been asked for nude or nearly nude pictures in the past year, but only four percent have shared pictures of themselves. Netsafe conducted the… Audio

A refugee advocate is calling for New Zealand to step up ahead of the closure of the Manus Island immigration detention centre in Papua Guinea next week. Tracey Barnett is highlighting the problem in… Audio

Testing for drug levels in waterways is about to be trialled in the regions, following a pilot programme in Auckland. Analysis of Auckland's wastewater between May and July 2014 found methamphetamine… Audio