Synopsis
Getting out in the field and the lab to bring you New Zealandstories about science, nature and the environment.Our Changing World is a finalist for Best Daily or Weekly Programme - Factual at the 2019 NZ Radio Awards.
Episodes
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More seabirds for Mana Island
17/03/2021 Duration: 26minThe story of a seabird translocation to Mana Island, involving fluffy white-faced storm petrel chicks, artificial burrows and sardine smoothies.
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Our Changing World for 11 March 2021
11/03/2021 Duration: 30minRare dolphins and whales were among the discoveries when the Far Out Ocean Research Collective surveyed the seas off Northland.
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In search of what is out there
10/03/2021 Duration: 30minThe Far Out Ocean Research Collective has been surveying for whales and dolphins in the seas off Northland.
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Glaciers as barometers of climate change
04/03/2021 Duration: 16minShaun Eaves talks about glaciers in the North Island and how evidence left behind by glaciers can help reconstruct past climates.
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Our Changing World for 4 March 2021
04/03/2021 Duration: 35minDeveloping a new test for detecting IVF embryos carrying too many chromosomes, and what past and present glaciers can tell us about climate.
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A new test for IVF embryos
04/03/2021 Duration: 19minFertility researchers are developing a new way of testing IVF embryos that have too many chromosomes.
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Collaborating to move freshwater species
01/03/2021 Duration: 15minUniversity of Canterbury freshwater biologists are using a joint mātauranga Māori and western conservation science framework for their work translocating species.
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Mapping NZ's underground water
25/02/2021 Duration: 21minMuch of New Zealand's freshwater flows underground, and a team from GNS Science is in the process of mapping it.
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Our Changing World for 25 February 2021
25/02/2021 Duration: 36minMapping the hidden reservoirs of underground water across New Zealand and a mātauranga Māori view on moving freshwater species.
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Our Changing World for 18 February 2021
17/02/2021 Duration: 42minThe natural history of Marlborough's weka and disaster law: what it is and its role in disaster resilience.
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Disaster law
17/02/2021 Duration: 24minUniversity of Canterbury's John Hopkins and Toni Collins explain disaster law and shortcomings in NZ's legal system highlighted by the Canterbury earthquakes.
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Weka: a wily but wary bird
17/02/2021 Duration: 20minOrnithologist and author Ralph Powlesland is intimately acquainted with the weka families on the regenerating Marlborough Sounds farm where he lives.
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Our Changing World for 11 February 2021
10/02/2021 Duration: 32minLiquefaction lessons from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, and biotechnologists doing interesting things with plants.
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Fixing environmental problems one plant at a time
10/02/2021 Duration: 09minBiotechnologist David Leung finds ways to make plants solve environmental issues.
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Liquefaction: lessons from the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes
10/02/2021 Duration: 23minMisko Cubrinovski is interested how the ground and the structures on - and in - it behave during an earthquake.
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Our Changing World for 4 February 2021
04/02/2021 Duration: 33minDesigning a new kind of filter to treat wastewater and how to encourage people to behave in a more environmentally friendly way.
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How to behave better towards the environment
04/02/2021 Duration: 11minVictoria University of Wellington's Wokje Abrahamse talks about environmental behaviour change, and projects to get people to save energy and use their cars less.
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Engineering new ways to treat dirty water
03/02/2021 Duration: 21minUniversity of Canterbury engineers plan to 3D print the next generation of wastewater treatment filters.
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Our Changing World for 28 January 2021
28/01/2021 Duration: 37minMeasuring the value of a community garden and the challenges of growing dune plants for restoring sand dune communities.
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The value of community gardens
27/01/2021 Duration: 24minSummer students from Victoria University of Wellington have been helping the Innermost community gardens in Wellington put numbers on their social and environmental values.