University of Canterbury freshwater biologists are using a joint mātauranga Māori and western conservation science framework for their work translocating species.

Mapping the hidden reservoirs of underground water across New Zealand and a mātauranga Māori view on moving freshwater species.

Ornithologist and author Ralph Powlesland is intimately acquainted with the weka families on the regenerating Marlborough Sounds farm where he lives.

University of Canterbury's John Hopkins and Toni Collins explain disaster law and shortcomings in NZ's legal system highlighted by the Canterbury earthquakes.

The natural history of Marlborough's weka and disaster law: what it is and its role in disaster resilience.

Misko Cubrinovski is interested how the ground and the structures on - and in - it behave during an earthquake.

Biotechnologist David Leung finds ways to make plants solve environmental issues.

Liquefaction lessons from the 2011 Christchurch earthquake, and biotechnologists doing interesting things with plants.

University of Canterbury engineers plan to 3D print the next generation of wastewater treatment filters.

Victoria University of Wellington's Wokje Abrahamse talks about environmental behaviour change, and projects to get people to save energy and use their cars less.

Designing a new kind of filter to treat wastewater and how to encourage people to behave in a more environmentally friendly way.

Summer students from Victoria University of Wellington have been helping the Innermost community gardens in Wellington put numbers on their social and environmental values.

Each year Jo Bonner and the team at Coastlands Plant Nursery in Whakatane grow 300,000 spinifex and pingao plants for dune replanting at beaches around the North Island.

Measuring the value of a community garden and the challenges of growing dune plants for restoring sand dune communities.

University of Otago student Ruby Parker says it's important to talk about abortion. She is in conversation with researcher Emma Harcourt.

University of Otago student Jenny Stein is finding out how rising sea levels are a growing problem for many coastal settlements, including the densely populated suburb of South Dunedin.

When University of Otago student Asia King got the call to take part in a study using ketamine to treat depression, she said yes - and made a podcast about the experience.

Discover the hidden world of arboreal plants, which get a leg-up in the world by living on trees.

Low-damage buildings don't just save lives in an earthquake - they are designed to be resilient so they can stay in use.