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Our Changing World

Dr Claire Concannon follows scientists into the bush, over rivers, back to their labs and many places in-between to cover the most fascinating research being done in Aotearoa New Zealand.

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00:20:28

Lake Ohau reveals climate history

Our Changing World ·

2016/03/03

Scientists reveal the climate history hidden in the mud at the bottom of Lake Ohau, reaching back to the end of the last Ice Age some 18,000 years ago.

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00:20:06

A new future for marine protected areas in New Zealand

Our Changing World ·

2016/03/03

Environment Minister Nick Smith is championing new legislation for marine protected areas, and Raewyn Peart from the Environmental Defence Society has some thoughts on its strengths and weaknesses.

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00:08:38

Poetry and science inspired by Transit of Venus

Our Changing World ·

2016/03/03

A book of poetry celebrates the inspiration poets, scientists and the Uawa/Tolaga Bay community have drawn from the 2012 Transit of Venus.

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00:13:04

Deterring sharks with electricity

Our Changing World ·

2016/03/03

Sunkita Howard is developing an electrical deterrent to discourage spiny dogfish from getting caught on fishing hooks used in the ling longline fishery.

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00:15:26

Hangi stones and magnetism

Our Changing World ·

2016/02/25

Hangi or oven stones are a record of the earth's magnetic field at the time they were heated and cooled, and they show a remarkable history of New Zealand's magnetic field for the past 600 years.

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00:05:39

Facing the reality of climate change

Our Changing World ·

2016/02/25

Climate scientist Will Steffen, at the Australian National University, argues that to limit the impacts of climate change on island nations in the Pacific may require technology that takes carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.

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00:04:29

An albatross chick's flowerpot is its castle

Our Changing World ·

2016/02/25

The Chatham Island Taiko Trust has made flowerpot nests for 50 Chatham Island albatross chicks that are part of a pioneering translocation from The Pyramid to the main Chatham Island.

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00:03:48

Taiko take off

Our Changing World ·

2016/02/25

With just 120-or-so known adult birds, 21 new chicks are a very welcome addition to the Chatham Island taiko population.

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00:07:12

Booming kakapo numbers

Our Changing World ·

2016/02/25

The endangered kakapo is in the middle of a bumper breeding year that looks set to be the best ever, and conservationists are looking foward to the resulting population boom.

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00:06:12

Antarctica's ice sheets more sensitive to warming

Our Changing World ·

2016/02/25

An international team of scientists found that Antarctica's land-based ice sheets are more vulnerable to rising temperatures than they previously thought.

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00:18:10

Technology and learning

Our Changing World ·

2016/02/25

Veronika Meduna joins a school group for a morning at MindLab, using fruit and vegetables to build musical instruments.

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00:14:07

Eye of the storm - climate change in the Pacific

Our Changing World ·

2016/02/18

Kiribati president Anote Tong calls on political leaders to help low-lying Pacific island nations to adapt to the impacts of climate change.

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00:14:16

Spotted skinks on the move

Our Changing World ·

2016/02/18

Nearly a hundred spotted skinks were recently transferred from Matiu Somes Island to Zealandia Sanctuary in Wellington.

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00:20:33

Cheaper, greener and bendier solar cells

Our Changing World ·

2016/02/18

Victoria University chemist Jonathan Halpert discusses nano-scale materials he investigates for future photovoltaic cells.

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00:11:29

Beetle versus spider

Our Changing World ·

2016/02/18

Jackie Spencer is investigating how the introduced venomous redback spider is affecting the threatened Cromwell chafer beetle, and what role rabbits play in the one-sided battle

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00:03:22

LIGO 'sees' gravitational waves

Our Changing World ·

2016/02/11

Researchers at the LIGO observatory have announced the direct observation of gravitational waves, which have been predicted by Albert Einstein just over a century ago.

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00:13:22

Could Alzheimers disease be preventable?

Our Changing World ·

2016/02/11

Alzheimers Disease and other forms of dementia may not be an inevitable part of ageing but preventable with some simple lifestyle changes, according to Oxford University emeritus professor David Smith.

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00:25:47

Ecoblitz

Our Changing World ·

2016/02/11

An Ecoblitz combines measuring ecological diversity with enthusing high school students about science and their local environment

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00:15:52

In pursuit of the yellow octopus

Our Changing World ·

2016/02/11

NIWA fisheries scientists are surveying the prey species of the New Zealand sea lion, including the elusive yellow octopus, to find out how hard the endagered marine mammals have to work for their food.

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00:10:31

Genome sequencing every living kakapo

Our Changing World ·

2016/02/04

In an ambitious world-first, scientists are using crowd-funding to pay for genome sequences for all 125 living kakapo - the first time an entire population will be sequenced.

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