Coral
Calling Home: Glen Craig in Port Vila
Sixteen years ago, Kiwi businessman Glen Craig took a one-year sabbatical from his work here to pick up a 12-month contract in Vanuatu. Little did he know that he would still be there in 2022… Audio
Batty directions, heat-resistant coral and counting barnacles
Science commentator Siouxsie Wiles joins Kathryn to talk about how fruit bats navigate through their sense of smell and large eyes, rather than echolocation. Researchers have discovered a cheap way of… Audio
Time travelling with a climate scientist
Dead corals cast up the shore of Aitutaki, in the Cook Islands, provide a window into the Pacific Ocean's marine climate hundreds of years ago. Audio
Time travelling with a climate scientist
Dead corals cast up the shore of Aitutaki, in the Cook Islands, provide a window into the Pacific Ocean's marine climate hundreds of years ago.
AudioOur Changing World for 27 August 2020
A time-travelling climate scientist is using dead corals to investigate past marine climates in the Pacific. Audio
Underwater speakers lure fish to dead coral reefs
Fish have been attracted back to dying parts of the Great Barrier Reef thanks to speakers under the water playing the sounds of a healthy reef. Audio
Calling Home: Lorraine Cook in the Seychelles
New Zealander Lorraine Cook is a Feilding-born former DOC worker who has been working as a conservationist in the Seychelles for the past two and a half years. Audio
Ban of some sunscreens urged in Pacific to protect coral
Pacific islands are being urged to consider following Hawaii and ban certain sunscreens to protect their coral reefs. The US state has banned sunblock containing chemicals harmful to coral from 2021.
…Crochet Coral Reef
The Crochet Coral Reef is a woolly celebration of the intersection of higher geometry and feminine handicraft, and a testimony to the disappearing wonders of the marine world. It has been exhibited in… Audio
Qld govt buys cattle station to protect reef
Queensland has bought a massive cattle station in a bid to stem hundreds of thousands of tonnes of sediment pollution flowing into the Great Barrier Reef.
Synthetic Biology
Explorations on how our natural environment is becoming something more artificial, with Dr. Josh Wodak of UNSW Art & Design faculty, who has an artwork of a fragment of coral that has been included in… Audio