Our Changing World

101 million years ago, an astonishingly large dinosaur roamed Patagonia in Argentina. It weighed as much as 8 African elephants. William Ray meets the ancient giant at @Te_Papa & discovers the surprising link between Patagonia's dinosaurs & NZ rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

🔊 Listen now! Our final summer science episode with 2 more @OtagoSciComm stories: 🤖 The engineer & the ghost. Can we – or should we – make conscious artificial intelligence? 🍃 The challenges of researching and prescribing medicinal cannabis rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

🔊 Listen now! Our summer science series continues with 2 stories from @OtagoSciComm students: 🧬 The conservation conundrum of hybridisation 🌱 Mātauranga Māori & western science – the perspective of 2 wāhine Māori rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

🔊 Our summer science series continues today with 2 mini-eps: 🌊 Seabirds in Auckland, a story from the Voices podcast rnz.co.nz/national/progr… 🦜 Kākā in Wellington, a story from @scieVUW @VicUniWgtn student Samantha Lloyd Evans rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

🔊 This week on the podcast feed: an episode from Black Sheep. In 1935, newspaper articles claimed a backyard inventor was building a death ray for the NZ government. Listen to find out the truth – & the science – behind the sensational headlines. rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Coming up this week, producer/dinosaur correspondent William Ray checks out the world's largest dinosaur on display at @Te_Papa and learns about Patagonian dinosaurs' surprising link to Aotearoa 🦖🦕 Episode online Thursday!

🔊 Listen now! On the seafloor off Taranaki, signs of huge ancient underwater landslides... And east of Gisborne, slow-motion earthquakes regularly detected... Meet 2 researchers studying geological phenomena that could pose a tsunami risk to NZ 🌊 rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

In the shaky isles, who's keeping tabs on earthquakes & other geohazards? The National Geohazard Monitoring Centre is on alert 24/7 for earthquakes, volcanic activity, tsunamis & landslides. @cconcannonsci finds out more. @geonet @gnsscience rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Coming up this week, @cconcannonsci gets a sneak peek behind the scenes at the National Geohazard Monitoring Centre @geonet @gnsscience Here, a team of geohazard analysts monitor data 24/7 for signs of earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis & landslides 🌋 Listen on Thursday!

Stoked to have been awarded silver in Best Factual and gold for the Climate award in the @nzpodcastawards 🥳🥳🥳 Thanks for listening and supporting the show 💜

Deep challenges lie ahead for New Zealand to achieve its water quality goals with current land use and the state of contaminants in freshwater, new research shows. rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

Expect more shark sightings this summer, says @docgovtnz scientist 🦈 rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

🔊 Listen now! Mohua are bright yellow – but they can be tricky to spot flitting high in the canopy. @cconcannonsci visits the Makarora mohua, where a team of scientists & conservationists are testing acoustic machine learning to ID individual birds rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

The world's largest iceberg is on the move. It has an area 6.5 times larger than Lake Taupō 🧊 rnz.co.nz/news/world/503…

The kakī, an endangered wading bird, is central to the latest work of Kāi Tahu Ōtepoti artist Madison Kelly’s new work in a major exhibition @ChchArtGallery rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Canterbury farmers help protect endangered kororā on Banks Peninsula rnz.co.nz/news/country/5…

Coming up this week, @cconcannonsci meets a little yellow forest bird & the people looking after them in Makarora. Despite their bright feathers, mohua are surprisingly hard to spot in the canopy – could a new acoustic monitoring tool help to count them? Episode online Thursday

🔊 Listen now! Varroa mites are bad news for honey bees 🐝 Researchers @VicUniWgtn are investigating a promising new way to stop the parasites using RNA. @cconcannonsci finds out more rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Here's a fun 1/2 hour episode to get you home this evening...full of bird facts, good humor and a bit of smack-talk thrown-in for good measure!! Hope you enjoy...back next week with a deep-dive on the wild side of #Connemara, #Galway. @JamieMcAulayNZ @cconcannonsci @RNZScience