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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. AlpineResearch Claire Concannon Our Changing World

🔊 Listen now! Varroa mites are bad news for honey bees 🐝 Researchers Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington are investigating a promising new way to stop the parasites using RNA. Claire Concannon finds out more rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

Coming up this week, Claire Concannon 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

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

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 Christchurch 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…

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

Expect more shark sightings this summer, says Department of Conservation scientist 🦈 rnz.co.nz/news/national/…

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/…

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 💜

Coming up this week, Claire Concannon gets a sneak peek behind the scenes at the National Geohazard Monitoring Centre GeoNet GNS Science Te Pū Ao Here, a team of geohazard analysts monitor data 24/7 for signs of earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis & landslides 🌋 Listen on Thursday!

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. Claire Concannon finds out more. GeoNet GNS Science Te Pū Ao 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!

🔊 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…

🔊 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 Science in Society Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington student Samantha Lloyd Evans rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

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

🔊 Listen now! Our final summer science episode with 2 more Department of Science Communication Otago 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…