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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The winding paths of science
09/06/2021 Duration: 30minTwo stories about science pathways - Katy Gosset heads to the University of Canterbury STEM careers fair to find out what the future might be for science students, while Claire Concannon learns about the weird world of parasite life cycles.
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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.