New giant duck discovered in St Bathans in Otago
A new species of large, extinct duck has been discovered at one of the country’s richest fossil sites in St Bathans in Otago.
Marlborough council significantly raising dump prices to afford levies
Landfill prices in Marlborough are set to increase, in a bid to encourage people to send less waste to the dump.
Dogs may mourn the loss of other household pets
Nearly 90 percent of dogs that experienced the death of another canine companion living in the same house showed signs of grief, according to a new study published in Scientific Reports..Professor Daniel Mills explains.
Why you shouldn’t wear shoes inside the house
Eyes are sometimes raised when people are asked to remove their shoes before entering someone else's home. However, new research has shown that wearing shoes inside the house is not only gross, but a real health threat.
Wool Impact NZ plans for positive impact
A new venture is being set up to turn around wool growers' fortunes.
Adam Nicolson: The hidden world of rockpools
Adam Nicolson has been obsessed with the landscape we live in his entire life. Recently Adam has been staring into rockpools, trying to work out what might stare back. The journalist, broadcaster and poet has been writing books about how we interact with our environments since the 1980s and his newest tome The Sea is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides is no exception. In the book he wanders around the world to try and understand what the liminal space of the world’s seas can tell us. He’s also been captured by the way we think about that thin strip that isn’t quite ‘land’ or ‘ocean’.
The energy problem
Two stories on addressing our energy problem – using AI to maximise locally produced renewable energy and reducing the carbon footprint of ammonia production.
Code red weather warning for Tairāwhiti
In Tairāwhiti, a red warning for heavy rain is in place.
A massive downpour of biblical proportions hit Tolaga and Tokomaru Bays and Te Puia overnight.
Rivers burst their banks – washing out roads and bridges, spewing out piles of stones, trees and other muck.
Families have been forced to evacuate, homes are damaged, power is out, and there are numerous slips.
Tokomaru Bay resident Te Aomihia Pewhairangi spoke to Māni Dunlop about what happened.
The importance of a wandering mind
Neuroscientist and the former Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at Harvard Medical School Moshe Bar is the author of Mindwandering – How it can improve your mood and boost your creativity and he's been exploring the vitality that can come from the vague.
Our Changing World – Keeping the lights on
Alison Ballance meets some engineers from Victoria University of Wellington who are coming up with smart ways to keep the lights on, using renewable electricity produced locally.