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Our Changing World
Stories about science and nature from out in the field and inside the labs across Aotearoa New Zealand. Winner 2022 New Zealand Radio Awards Best Factual Podcast - Episodic
Thursdays 7:30pm, repeated 1:15am Sundays. One feature plays 3:35pm Wednesdays.
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Voices from Antarctica 7: What the ice is saying
9 Jul 2020Researchers are using hot water to drill through the Ross ice shelf, to discover what has happened to Antarctic ice during previous periods of warm climates. Read more Audio
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Voices from Antarctica 6: Seal songs
2 Jul 2020Alison Ballance eavesdrops on the songs of the world's southern-most mammal, the Weddell seal, and finds out about sea ice. Read more Audio
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‘Melting ice & rising seas’ team wins PM Science Prize
2 Jul 2020A team finding links between melting ice sheets in Antarctica and rising sea levels in NZ has won the 2019 Prime Minister's Science Prize. Read more Audio
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Wheelie bin robot inventor wins science prize
2 Jul 2020Student Thomas James wanted to help his elderly neighbour, so he invented a wheelie bin robot to take her large recycling bin to the kerb. Read more Audio
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Passionate maths teacher wins a PM’s Science Prize
2 Jul 2020Michelle Dalrymple, winner of the 2019 Prime Minister's Science Teacher's Prize, says being mathematically literate is an important life skill. Read more Audio
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Our Changing World for 2 July 2020
2 Jul 2020Winners of the 2019 Prime Minister's Science Prizes include a team studying melting ice and rising seas, a maths teacher and a young inventor. Audio
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Voices from Antarctica 5: Waiting for Emperors
25 Jun 2020Emperor penguin researchers are waiting for tagged birds to return, and an elderly radar system sheds light on a very windy part of the atmosphere. Read more Audio
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Voices from Antarctica 4: Best journey in the world
18 Jun 2020Alison Ballance meets a colony of Emperor penguins and their NIWA researchers, and finds out about making water on the frozen continent Read more Audio
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Voices from Antarctica 3: Flags to physics
11 Jun 2020Keeping Scott Base warm and well-lit no matter the weather outside, and a physics experiment that eavesdrops on messages to submarines. Read more Audio
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Voices from Antarctica 2: Scott Base
4 Jun 2020Alison Ballance has her first day at New Zealand's Antarctic station, Scott Base, and visits the historic Hillary's Hut. Read more Video, Audio
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Voices from Antarctica 1: Ice Flight
28 May 2020Alison Ballance dons her extreme cold weather clothing for a trip to Antarctica - but getting to the frozen continent can take time. Read more Audio
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Our Changing World for 21 May 2020
Two gems from Our Changing World's Antarctic archive - restoring Shackleton's hut at Cape Royds and hunting for extremophile microbes high on Mt Erebus. Audio
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