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Alison Ballance's world is changing
26 Mar 2021With more than a thousand conservation stories under her waterproof parka, science journalist Alison Ballance is retiring from RNZ's Our Changing World programme.
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Alison Ballance retrospective 1: shags & eagle rays
25 Mar 2021Alison Ballance looks back at the 1,000+ stories she has made, and revisits stone-eating spotted shags and urban eagle rays
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More seabirds for Mana Island
18 Mar 2021The story of a seabird translocation to Mana Island, involving fluffy white-faced storm petrel chicks, artificial burrows and sardine smoothies.
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In search of what is out there
11 Mar 2021The 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
4 Mar 2021Shaun Eaves talks about glaciers in the North Island and how evidence left behind by glaciers can help reconstruct past climates.
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A new test for IVF embryos
Fertility researchers are developing a new way of testing IVF embryos that have too many chromosomes.
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Collaborating to move freshwater species
25 Feb 2021University 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 Feb 2021Much of New Zealand's freshwater flows underground, and a team from GNS Science is in the process of mapping it.
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Disaster law
University 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
18 Feb 2021Ornithologist and author Ralph Powlesland is intimately acquainted with the weka families on the regenerating Marlborough Sounds farm where he lives.
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Fixing environmental problems one plant at a time
11 Feb 2021Biotechnologist David Leung finds ways to make plants solve environmental issues.
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Liquefaction: lessons from the 2011 Christchurch earthquakes
11 Feb 2021Misko 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
4 Feb 2021Designing 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
4 Feb 2021Victoria 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
4 Feb 2021University of Canterbury engineers plan to 3D print the next generation of wastewater treatment filters.
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The value of community gardens
28 Jan 2021Summer students from Victoria University of Wellington have been helping the Innermost community gardens in Wellington put numbers on their social and environmental values.
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Growing dune plants a challenging passion
28 Jan 2021Each year Jo Bonner and the team at Coastlands Plant Nursery in Whakatane grow 300,000 spinifex and pingao plants for dune replanting at beaches around the North Island.
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Rising water, rising problems
University of Otago student Jenny Stein is finding out how rising sea levels are a growing problem for many coastal settlements, including the densely populated suburb of South Dunedin.
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Horsing around: ketamine and me
When University of Otago student Asia King got the call to take part in a study using ketamine to treat depression, she said yes - and made a podcast about the experience.
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Talking about abortion law reform
University of Otago student Ruby Parker says it's important to talk about abortion. She is in conversation with researcher Emma Harcourt.
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Designing low damage buildings
17 Dec 2020Low-damage buildings don't just save lives in an earthquake - they are designed to be resilient so they can stay in use.
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Epiphytes - high-rise plants
17 Dec 2020Discover the hidden world of arboreal plants, which get a leg-up in the world by living on trees.
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Preparing for the next big quake
10 Dec 2020Information from past earthquakes can be used to prepare a more resilient society that will be better able to cope with future shakes.
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What it takes to live a good life
10 Dec 2020When it comes to having a 'good life', there are several key elements - strong intimate relationships and time to relax.
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