Ocean

Coming soon to RNZ Podcasts is the new series Voice of Tangaroa, exploring the state of our oceans, and the extraordinary variety of life that calls it home. Released weekly from Thursday 29 February… Audio

Coming soon to RNZ Podcasts is the new series Voice of Tangaroa, exploring the state of our oceans, and the extraordinary variety of life that calls it home. Released weekly from Thursday 29 February… Audio

Coming soon to RNZ Podcasts is the new series Voice of Tangaroa, exploring the state of our oceans, and the extraordinary variety of life that calls it home. Released weekly from Thursday 29 February… Audio

Coming soon to RNZ Podcasts is the new series Voice of Tangaroa. The series explores the state of our oceans, and the extraordinary variety of life that calls it home. Audio

Giant kelp is disappearing from Wellington Harbour. Love Rimurimu is aiming to restore lush underwater kelp forests with an ambitious and collaborative replanting effort. Claire Concannon dives in to… Audio

Giant kelp is under pressure. Can an ambitious underwater forest planting effort help restore this disappearing ocean ecosystem? Audio

Joseph Dituri has spent 95 days in a metal cabin just off the coast of Florida, 9.1m below the ocean's surface. The biomedical engineer has smashed through the previous record of 73 days spent… Audio

Tropical cyclones can cause rampant destruction, but sometimes, these wild weather systems can seed life at sea too. This week we meet a storm-chasing researcher in search of phytoplankton blooms like… Audio

We know – all too well now – that tropical cyclones can cause huge amounts of destruction in the South Pacific. But might they also be a source of marine life? Audio

A Clean Sweep? by Kate Evans: we are the only nation still trawling in the South Pacific. Can the practice be fixed, or should it be phased out entirely? Audio

Sunfish are the world's largest bony fish species – and yet scientists know little about their lives. This week, Our Changing World meets a sunfish researcher unravelling mola mysteries and dives into… Audio

Sunfish are weird. They don't have a tail, they can grow massive (up to 2.7 tonnes), and we don't know much about their lives. This week, Our Changing World meets a scientist unravelling a mola… Audio

Surfers! Science has some news for you. Research released this morning projects waves to get taller along the west coast, and shorter on the east. To explain this futher, Dr João Albuquerque from the… Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio