Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsOpening Radio and Podcast...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsFetching podcast shows and categories...
Radio and PodcastLive Radio & PodcastsFetching podcast episodes...
Getting out in the field and the lab to bring you New Zealand stories about science, nature and the environment.
So far, 2026 has been the biggest kākāpō breeding season of all time, with more chicks hatched than ever before. The current challenge is to...
The food you see on the supermarket shelves doesn't end up there by accident. It's often been rigorously tested for likeability. This week o...
In 2010 the Psa-V bacterial disease was found in a Bay of Plenty kiwifruit orchard. This was the beginning of a terrible ordeal for many kiw...
Ketamine was first developed as an anaesthetic, and today is taken by some as a party drug. But since 2000, research has emerged showing it...
In the Auckland suburb of Mt Albert there's a particular brand of doomsday prepping going on. Our Changing World visits the Bioeconomy Scien...
Our Changing Word heads to Whangārei to speak to a Northland Regional Council scientist whose been using stormwater drains to estimate the s...
In Dunedin the local tree crop association has been looking after a heritage apple orchard, but some mixed up labels meant they weren’t quit...
Take a (very) large egg, some insects (plus specially developed food), and a safe place to put on weight for a while. This is how you grow a...
In the Kaimai Mamuku ranges iwi-led conservation projects are tackling pests, removing weeds and planting natives to restore their whenua. N...
A native species is taking over a jewel-in-the crown marine reserve. But what can be done? Centrostephanus, the long-spined urchin, is munch...
New Zealand is third in the world for the number of orbital rocket launches from our shores, sitting just behind the US and China. Phil Vine...
We know there are issues with sustainability within the fashion industry - can science help create a better future? Claire Concannon visits...
Since 2018 there's been a massive effort underway to clear over 110,000 hectares of South Westland of possums, rats and stoats. As the pest...
Some insects communicate using a secret language that we can’t sense – a language of vibrations. Now researchers at the Bioeconomy Science I...
When do humans begin to interact with the world, and develop our sense of self? When we are born? Or might it start even earlier than that?...
A Southland company is growing red seaweed as a supplement that’s been shown to significantly reduce methane emissions in beef and dairy cat...
Why do we spend more than we need to? Is it mood, FOMO, the desire to impress? Or maybe some tricky behavioural triggers we're not even awar...
We’d all like to know how to live long healthy lives, and Kim Hill is no different. In this episode of Kim Hill Wants To Know, she talks to...
We all love a good crunchy apple – but how do they stay like that for months after being picked? The Our Changing World summer science serie...
This week on the summer science series we play an episode of Country Life called Dollars for Nature. Can biodiversity credits fix New Zealan...
Nobody knows how many feral cats roam New Zealand, but estimates are in the millions and they’re a major threat to our native species. They'...
On three small predator-free islands off the coasts of Fiordland and Southland, preparations are underway for what many hope will be the big...
The wetlands and surrounding forests of Te Awarua o Porirua, or Porirua Harbour, were once rich food baskets for Ngāti Toa Rangatira. But de...
What does a ‘good day’ look like for you? Researchers are using wearable sensors and wellbeing surveys to understand how lifestyle patterns...
This upcoming summer is likely to be the biggest ever kākāpō breeding season, and RNZ will be following the twists and turns as they happen....
Our freshwater ecosystems are facing numerous challenges. Many of New Zealand’s lakes have lost much of their native underwater plant life....
Oil and water don’t mix — unless surfactants step in. At Auckland University of Technology, a team of chemists has created a new kind of sur...
Until late 2024, nobody had seen te pua o Te Rēinga “the flower of the underworld” in the Wellington region for more than a hundred years. A...
An invasive species has taken hold in the Waikato River, and it’s multiplying fast. Gold clams, tiny but relentless, are now found along a l...
New Zealand’s marine search and rescue region stretches from Antarctica to north of Samoa. If someone goes missing without any means of comm...
It’s been 30 years since a dramatic series of eruptions at Mount Ruapehu. In that time, there have been great advances in monitoring and mod...
Two years ago, the Australasian crested grebe, the pūteketeke, took out the title of New Zealand’s Bird of the Century. But when the Paris b...
From the public service sector to businesses to individuals, AI’s uptake across New Zealand has been rapid. And it’s not just large language...
This week, an underwater mystery connecting New Zealand and Ireland - the puzzle of the disappearing sponges of Lough Hyne. In the late 1990...
Need a nature fix? RNZ now has a podcast feed dedicated to our beautifully produced series telling stories from te taiao nature. Check out t...
In March 2024, a satellite built to detect the potent greenhouse gas methane launched into orbit – backed by New Zealand to a final total of...
In March 2024, a rocket launched from Florida carrying New Zealand’s first science payload to the International Space Station. The small cub...
An elaborate game of carbon ‘I spy’ is happening on the streets of Wellington. With their brand-new mobile carbon lab, Earth Sciences New Ze...
Takahē were believed to be extinct not once, but twice. Today their population is just over 500 – still not a huge number, but big enough th...
Gas shortages, a reversal of the ban of offshore oil and gas exploration, and a government plan to double geothermal energy in the next 15 y...
New Zealand’s youth vaping rates are among the highest in the world. How did we get here and what will this mean for the future of our ranga...
More and more of us are reaching for low or no-alcohol beers. As the market grows, the options are also expanding – but brewing beer without...
Project Tongariro was established as a living memorial for five people who died in a tragic helicopter accident. Last November, the project...
The battle on the frontlines of conservation continues around the motu. This week we head to the central North Island to join some of the st...
During World War II, sonar operators discovered a ‘false seabed’ that appeared to move upwards during the nighttime. In fact, the sound wave...
For a long time, nuclear fusion was viewed as a powerful, but unachievable, energy source, because the technological challenges were just to...
In May 2024, 100 strange rocky structures were installed along Tauranga's harbour shoreline. These flower-shaped artificial rockpools, nickn...
Speckled, pencil-thin and sporting an underbite: the lowland longjaw galaxias is New Zealand’s rarest freshwater fish species. With just sev...
Since the 1800s, tuberculosis (TB) has been responsible for an estimated 1 billion deaths. In New Zealand today, we don’t get many cases of...
2020 saw the start of two global pandemics. Covid-19, of course, but also H5N1 bird flu. The latter has swept around the world leaving milli...