Enterprising farmers, pioneering scientists and volunteer trappers all feature in our top environment stories of last year.
How "backyard" farmers are healing the land
Taranaki couple Bena Denton and Daniel Woolly have transformed a gully on their property into a food forest nourished by home waste.
Daniel Woolly and Bena Denton Photo: RNZ/Sally Round
WATCH - Fight for the Wild
This award-winning documentary film & podcast series explores the notion of a Predator Free 2050.
'Do we ever ask the land what we should put there?'
Conservationist Rob McGowan, aka 'Pa Ropata', has worked for decades protecting indigenous ecosystems on Māori land.
Rob McGowan Photo: RNZ/Justine Murray
How to behave better towards the environment
Information is not enough to encourage people to change their habitual behaviours, says environmental psychologist Wokje Abrahamse.
What does it take to encourage people to use less power? Photo: 123RF
'Mum dragged me into the hills and taught me to drink water out of Mount Cook lily leaves'
Former Department of Conversation boss Lou Sanson reflects on his life-long love affair with nature.
Lou Sanson Photo: Supplied
Can re-embracing nomadism save humanity?
Migration is a powerful way to stop us 'othering' both people and the natural world, says author Felix Marquardt.
Photo: Unsplash
WATCH - Kororā: Little Blue Penguin
A Banks Peninsula family works to protect and survey the Indigenous population of white-flippered penguins.
The chemical tsunami and how we can deal with it
Chemicals are in our food, our water, the air we breathe and everything we touch - but science writer Julian Cribb is hopeful we can break free of them.
Photo: Pexels
LISTEN - The New Zealand paths (much) less travelled
Science journalist Alison Ballance, tramper Robin McNeill, and honey entrepreneur Brenda Tahi explore the least-touched corners of Aotearoa.
Photo: Supplied / Will Patino
'In the 1970s, the words 'climate change' didn't really exist'
Atmospheric scientist Dave Lowe has been charting the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide for more than 50 years.
Dave Lowe taking an air flask sample at the edge of the Baring Head cliff in 1972. Photo: Dave Lowe
Small ways to make our carbon footprints smaller
Science writer Paul Greenberg has heaps of ideas about how to get people off the climate-change sidelines.
Photo: 123RF
The impact that soil has on everything
If you're interested in climate change, it all comes back to the soil, says Kiwi agro-ecologist Nicole Masters.
Nicole Masters Photo: Talia Jean Galvin
