Rnz: Our Changing World

Fertility researchers are developing a new way of testing IVF embryos that have too many chromosomes.

University of Canterbury freshwater biologists are using a joint mātauranga Māori and western conservation science framework for their work translocating species.

Much of New Zealand's freshwater flows underground, and a team from GNS Science is in the process of mapping it.

Mapping the hidden reservoirs of underground water across New Zealand and a mātauranga Māori view on moving freshwater species.

The natural history of Marlborough's weka and disaster law: what it is and its role in disaster resilience.

University of Canterbury's John Hopkins and Toni Collins explain disaster law and shortcomings in NZ's legal system highlighted by the Canterbury earthquakes.

Ornithologist and author Ralph Powlesland is intimately acquainted with the weka families on the regenerating Marlborough Sounds farm where he lives.

Liquefaction lessons from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, and biotechnologists doing interesting things with plants.

Biotechnologist David Leung finds ways to make plants solve environmental issues.

Misko Cubrinovski is interested how the ground and the structures on - and in - it behave during an earthquake.

Designing a new kind of filter to treat wastewater and how to encourage people to behave in a more environmentally friendly way.

Victoria University of Wellington's Wokje Abrahamse talks about environmental behaviour change, and projects to get people to save energy and use their cars less.

University of Canterbury engineers plan to 3D print the next generation of wastewater treatment filters.

Measuring the value of a community garden and the challenges of growing dune plants for restoring sand dune communities.

Summer students from Victoria University of Wellington have been helping the Innermost community gardens in Wellington put numbers on their social and environmental values.

Each 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.

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.

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.

University of Otago student Ruby Parker says it's important to talk about abortion. She is in conversation with researcher Emma Harcourt.

Epiphytes are the high rise experts of the plant world, and resilient buildings should save lives and still be useable after an earthquake.