RNZ: Our Changing World
Summary: Getting out in the field and the lab to bring you New Zealand stories about science, nature and the environment.
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Podcasts:
Ahi Pepe | Moth Net is a Te Reo-focused citizen science project involving primary schools collecting information about moths in their neighbourhoods.
Genetic tools will help New Zealand meets its aim of being Predator Free by 2050 - but we need to understand what they are and have a public conversation about their use.
Wyatt Page is concerned that the noisy world we live in and our increasing use of loud headphones is bad for our hearing.
Understanding the 'dress code' that allows clover plants to recognise friendly nitrogen-fixing bacteria could help us improve farming efficiency.
The Coastwatchers were small groups of men posted to New Zealand's subantarctic islands during the Second World War to watch for enemy shipping. Ian Telfer visits one of their historic huts.
A project to develop and commercialise better bone grafting material using the antibacterial properties of silver nanoparticles is underway at the University of Otago.
The Northern New Zealand Seabird Trust has been trying to solve the many mysteries of our smallest seabird, the New Zealand storm petrel, which breeds on Hauturu / Little Barrier Island.
Matthew Savoca talks about seabirds' fatal attraction to plastic, and how their incredible sense of smell is being fooled by rubbish.
Whales, dolphins, earthquakes and boats are some of the sounds that make the underwater world of Cook Strait a noisy place.
In a democratic society striving to give everyone a voice, have we lost the ability to listen?
The University of Otago team behind the long-running Dunedin Study has won the 2016 Prime Minister's Science Prize.
A science writer who says that science communication is an important way of enabling democracy, has won the 2016 Prime Minister's Science Media Communication Prize.
Smart electronic transmitters are revolutionising the way Department of Conservation rangers keep track of kākāpō.
In a city as culturally diverse as Auckland, how is the Kiwi accent changing and evolving?
Chemist Sally Brooker is developing a catalyst that could be used to produce biodegradable plastic from corn.
