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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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.
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A new test for IVF embryos
04/03/2021 Duration: 19minFertility researchers are developing a new way of testing IVF embryos that have too many chromosomes.
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Collaborating to move freshwater species
01/03/2021 Duration: 15minUniversity 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
25/02/2021 Duration: 21minMuch of New Zealand's freshwater flows underground, and a team from GNS Science is in the process of mapping it.
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Our Changing World for 25 February 2021
25/02/2021 Duration: 36minMapping the hidden reservoirs of underground water across New Zealand and a mātauranga Māori view on moving freshwater species.
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Our Changing World for 18 February 2021
17/02/2021 Duration: 42minThe natural history of Marlborough's weka and disaster law: what it is and its role in disaster resilience.
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Disaster law
17/02/2021 Duration: 24minUniversity of Canterbury's John Hopkins and Toni Collins explain disaster law and shortcomings in NZ's legal system highlighted by the Canterbury earthquakes.