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Our Changing World @RNZScience

@cconcannonsci produces Our Changing World on @radionz; all about science, natural history, health & the environment.

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Our Changing World@RNZScience
20 Dec 2023
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/programme…

The giant dinosaurs of Patagonia… and maybe Aotearoa?

This week on Our Changing World RNZ podcast producer, and occasional dinosaur correspondent William Ray visits Ngā Taniwha o Rūpapa Dinosaurs of Patagonia, a special exhibition at Te Papa Museum to...

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🔊 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/programme…

Summer science: AI and medicinal cannabis

In the final instalment of the summer science series, science communication students tackle two controversial topics: medicinal cannabis, and AI consciousness.

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🔊 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/programme…

Summer science: Hybrid wildlife and mātauranga Māori

Should we intervene to prevent hybridisation between an endangered species and its common relative? In this week's summer science episode, two students from the Department of Science Communication at...

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

Summer science: Seabirds in Auckland

The summer science fun continues with an episode from RNZ podcast Voices. Meet Gaia Dell'Arriccia, a scientist originally from the south of France who studies the seabirds that live around Auckland's...

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🔊 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/programme…

Summer science: Death rays and radio inventions

The summer science series kicks off with an episode from award-winning podcast Black Sheep, about a backyard inventor called Victor Penny who sparked sensational headlines about death ray invention...

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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!
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🔊 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/programme…

Underwater slips and slides

Off the coast of New Zealand, deep underwater, the seafloor shifts in landslides and slow-motion earthquakes. Claire Concannon meets two researchers investigating geological phenomena that could pose...

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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/programme…

On alert – the National Geohazard Monitoring Centre

Go behind the scenes at the National Geohazard Monitoring Centre, where a team of analysts are on alert 24/7 for earthquakes, volcanic activity, tsunamis and landslides. What happens when a natural...

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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!
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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 💜
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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/5035…

Freshwater contamination exceeding targets - study

While E coli was the stand-out across three-quarters of all land in Aotearoa, Canterbury needs to reduce nitrogen by 44 percent, and Southland by 41 percent, a new report says.

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Expect more shark sightings this summer, says @docgovtnz scientist 🦈 rnz.co.nz/news/national/5035…

Expect more shark sightings on NZ beaches as summer approaches - DOC

DOC has advice on keeping safe in the water after a large shark was spotted near Rabbit Island near Nelson.

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🔊 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/programme…

Monitoring the Makarora mohua

Mohua are bright yellow forest birds – but despite their eye-catching plumage, they can be tricky to spot flitting high in the forest canopy. Claire Concannon visits the Makarora mohua population,...

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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/503244/…

World's largest iceberg breaks free, heads toward Southern Ocean

At almost 4000 square km, the Antarctic iceberg is moving for the first time in more than 30 years.

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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/programme…

Madison Kelly’s call and response with the kakī

The black stilt or kakī is one of the world's most endangered birds. It is central to the latest work of Kāi Tahu Otepoti artist Madison Kelly’s new work in a major exhibition Spring Time is Heartb...

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Canterbury farmers help protect endangered kororā on Banks Peninsula rnz.co.nz/news/country/50333…

Canterbury farmers help protect endangered kororā in penguin colony

A farming family in Banks Peninsula is playing its part in protecting the largest little penguin colony on mainland New Zealand.

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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
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🔊 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/programme…

A new way to help honey bees

Varroa mite parasites cause major problems for honey bees – and beekeepers. Now, New Zealand researchers are investigating a new type of RNA-based treatment that could make treating varroa mite...

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20 Nov 2023
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
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