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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Our Changing World for 6 May 2021
06/05/2021 Duration: 32minIn her final trawl through the audio archives, Alison Ballance heads to Putauhinu Island, a southern sanctuary for rare birds.
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Alison Ballance retrospective 6: southern island sanctuary
05/05/2021 Duration: 31minAlison Ballance revisits a favourite story from the archives: southern island sanctuary for rare birds.
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Alison Ballance retrospective 5: kauri dieback disease
29/04/2021 Duration: 31minAlison Ballance revisits a 2013 feature on kauri dieback disease and talks to Nick Waipara to find out how the northern kauri forests are coping with the disease in 2021.
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Our Changing World for 29 April 2021
29/04/2021 Duration: 30minAlison Ballance revisits a 2013 story about kauri dieback disease and gets an update of the disease's impact in 2021.
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Alison Ballance retrospective 4: ocean acidification
22/04/2021 Duration: 45minAlison Ballance's foray into the vaults finds a feature on ocean acidification, The Acid Test and adds a 2021 update.
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Our Changing World for 15 April 2021
13/04/2021 Duration: 31min2020 Prime Minister's Science Prize winners talk about their research and teaching.
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2020 Prime Minister's Science Prize winners
13/04/2021 Duration: 32minThere are some familiar names as well as some new faces among the winners of the 2020 Prime Minister's Science Prizes.
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Our Changing World for 8 April 2021
07/04/2021 Duration: 26minAlison Ballance digs into the Our Changing World archives for an Antarctic blast from the past with Voice of the Iceberg 2: Revelation.
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Alison Ballance retrospective 3: Voice of the Iceberg
07/04/2021 Duration: 26minAlison Ballance digs into Our Changing World's Antarctic treasure chest and finds part 2 of Voice of the Iceberg.
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Alison Ballance retrospective 2: Kaikōura earthquake science
30/03/2021 Duration: 32minAlsion Ballance revisits a story looking at the complexity of the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake.
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Our Changing World for 1 April 2021
30/03/2021 Duration: 31minIn this week's retrospective, Alison Ballance looks at the 'big ones': a big earthquake in Kaikōura in 2016 and a big science effort to understand it.
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Science journalist Alison Ballance hangs up her boots
25/03/2021 Duration: 23minWith 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
25/03/2021 Duration: 29minAlison 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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Our Changing World for 25 March 2021
24/03/2021 Duration: 30minAlison Ballance plays favourites from the archives - stone-eating spotted shags and urban eagle rays.
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Our Changing World for 18 March 2021
18/03/2021 Duration: 27minSeabird species are being reintroduced to Mana Island to help restore the ecology of the island.
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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.