RNZ: Our Changing World
Getting out in the field and the lab to bring you New Zealand stories about science, nature and the environment. With Alison Ballance.
Episodes
May 9, 2021 • 27 min
Loss looks at the devastating effect introduced mammals have had on New Zealand's unique wildlife.
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May 6, 2021 • 31 min
Alison Ballance revisits a favourite story from the archives: southern island sanctuary for rare birds.
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May 6, 2021 • 32 min
In her final trawl through the audio archives, Alison Ballance heads to Putauhinu Island, a southern sanctuary for rare birds.
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April 29, 2021 • 31 min
Alison Ballance revisits a 2013 feature on kauri dieback disease and talks to Nick Waipara to find out how the northern kauri forests are coping with the disease in 2021.
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April 29, 2021 • 30 min
Alison Ballance revisits a 2013 story about kauri dieback disease and gets an update of the disease's impact in 2021.
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April 22, 2021 • 45 min
Alison Ballance's foray into the vaults finds a feature on ocean acidification, The Acid Test and adds a 2021 update.
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April 22, 2021 • 45 min
In this week's retrospective, Alison Ballance revisits an ocean acidification special feature called The Acid Test.
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April 15, 2021 • 32 min
There are some familiar names as well as some new faces among the winners of the 2020 Prime Minister's Science Prizes.
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April 15, 2021 • 31 min
2020 Prime Minister's Science Prize winners talk about their research and teaching.
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April 8, 2021 • 26 min
Alison Ballance digs into Our Changing World's Antarctic treasure chest and finds part 2 of Voice of the Iceberg.
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April 8, 2021 • 26 min
Alison Ballance digs into the Our Changing World archives for an Antarctic blast from the past with Voice of the Iceberg 2: Revelation.
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April 1, 2021 • 32 min
Alsion Ballance revisits a story looking at the complexity of the 2016 Kaikōura earthquake.
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April 1, 2021 • 31 min
In this week's retrospective, Alison Ballance looks at the 'big ones': a big earthquake in Kaikōura in 2016 and a big science effort to understand it.
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March 25, 2021 • 23 min
With more than a thousand conservation stories under her waterproof parka, science journalist Alison Ballance is retiring from RNZ's Our Changing World programme.
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March 25, 2021 • 29 min
Alison Ballance looks back at the 1,000+ stories she has made, and revisits stone-eating spotted shags and urban eagle rays
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March 25, 2021 • 30 min
Alison Ballance plays favourites from the archives - stone-eating spotted shags and urban eagle rays.
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March 18, 2021 • 26 min
The story of a seabird translocation to Mana Island, involving fluffy white-faced storm petrel chicks, artificial burrows and sardine smoothies.
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March 18, 2021 • 27 min
Seabird species are being reintroduced to Mana Island to help restore the ecology of the island.
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March 11, 2021 • 30 min
The Far Out Ocean Research Collective has been surveying for whales and dolphins in the seas off Northland.
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March 11, 2021 • 30 min
Rare dolphins and whales were among the discoveries when the Far Out Ocean Research Collective surveyed the seas off Northland.
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