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Living in the age of resilience
8 Oct 2015French experts Pierre Ducret and Lucile Schmid discuss the social impacts of climate change and the challenges in building a fair, low-carbon economy.
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Wellington joins 100 Resilient Cities
8 Oct 2015Wellington recently joined the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities programme and urban planners are now mapping out a long-term resilience plan for the capital.
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Science of stony soils and water
8 Oct 2015There are a million hectares of stony soils in New Zealand - and scientists are using lysimeters to measure how water and cow urine move through them
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How best to invest in science
8 Oct 2015Motu's director Adam Jaffe responds to the government's science funding strategy and discusses recent research into the efficacy of the Marsden Fund.
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Moving animals for conservation
1 Oct 2015There have been hundreds of relocations of animals for conservation reasons in New Zealand and Australia - so what lessons have we learnt
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Offsetting biodiversity losses
1 Oct 2015Environmental Defence Society policy analyst Marie Brown discusses the challenge of how development projects can offset biodiversity losses.
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Too much salt
We live in a high salt world, so how feasible is it in our current shopping environment to eat a low sodium diet
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Kermadec region becomes an open ocean sanctuary
1 Oct 2015This week, the government announced the creation of the Kermadec ocean sanctuary, which covers 620,000 square kilometres and bans mining, prospecting and fishing.
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Planning for a pandemic
The Great Barrier Island community discusses the frightening prospect that they could be the sole survivors after a global flu pandemic.
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Wildbase - a hospital dedicated to native wildlife
24 Sep 2015At Wildbase, New Zealand's only dedicated wildlife hospital, vets treat more than 300 native animals each year as well as doing research on conservation issues.
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Oil off a duck's back
24 Sep 2015It takes 400 litres of freshwater to clean a seabird that has been covered in oil, but new research using ducks shows that seawater is a viable alternative
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Rethinking enzyme evolution
24 Sep 2015Proteins have evolved over many millions of years - but they can also evolve rapidly, in just years, and this offers insights into how evolution itself works
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The worm returns
24 Sep 2015Many farms in New Zealand are missing deep burrowing earthworms, that can help better grass growth, so Nicole Schon is relocating worms to farms in need
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Viruses in invasive Argentine ants
17 Sep 2015Ecologists at Victoria University have discovered that the invasive Argentine ants host a virus associated with bee deaths.
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Shining a light on our biological clock
Guy Warman, at the University of Auckland, explores how anaesthesia affects the body's biological clock and whether light therapy could help reduce sleep disruption post surgery.
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East Antarctica not a 'sleeping giant'
17 Sep 2015An expedition to east Antarctica's Totten glacier returns with evidence suggesting that east Antarctica may not be as resistant to melting as once thought.
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'Orchard in a box' - using GM to breed better apples
A greenhouse that is also a strict containment facility allows scientists to experimentally add apple genes to apple trees to speed up the breeding of new varieties
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New Zealand's first national bee health survey
17 Sep 2015Bees are in trouble and to get a better idea of might be contributing to colony loses, Landcare Research is calling on beekeepers to help with a national survey.
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New Zealand's rich diversity of soils
10 Sep 2015To mark the International Year of Soils, we look at New Zealand's rich diversity of soils
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How kiwifruit helps control blood sugar
Food scientists are investigating breakfast cereals and combinations with kiwifruit in search of a breakfast that helps control blood sugar levels
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Complexity, resilience and bees
10 Sep 2015Jason Tylianakis is an ecologist trying to understand how our complex natural world responds to change
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Does your first language influence your trombone playing?
Matthias Heyne is investigating whether the tongue positions we learn as part of our native language influences the way trombonists play their instruments
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Psychology of Climate Change
Victoria University psychology lecturer Marc Wilson discusses why some people remain unsure about climate change, despite the overwhelming evidence.
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Human hunting and Stewart Island Shags
3 Sep 2015Hunting by Maori had very different effects on the Stewart Island and Otago populations of Stewart Island shags.
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