Science & Environment

New Zealander Tod Waight is a Professor in Geology at Copenhagen University. He offers his take on Trump's audacious bid to purchase Greenland.  Audio

A new study suggests that extreme early risers are simply listening to what their bodies are telling them. Dr Louis Ptácek joins the show to explain why there are night owls, extreme larks and… Audio

Kiwi expat and business owner Nikki Ross is Calling Home form Bali and joins the show to discuss her life on the tropical island paradise. Audio, Gallery

Dr Andrew Klein explains how the medical research sector can clean up the scientific record and get rid of "fake data". Audio

University of Waikato professor of international Law Al Gillespie looks at what can be done by the international community about deforestation in the Amazon.  Audio

Penguin expert Pablo Garcia Borboroglu is the founder and President of the Global Penguin Society, a science-based conservation coalition which has helped protect 32 million acres of habitat and taken… Audio

Birds, Richard Dawkins, and The Vicar of Dibley are some surprising inspirations behind Professor Andy Gosler's conversion to Christianity. The University of Oxford ethnobiologist has studied the… Audio

It's rained every single day this month in Auckland -- but there's one organisation - Watercare - that doesn't want the wet weather to let up yet. Chen Liu reports. Audio

For 100 days - rain, hail, and shine - Ollie Langridge has been camped out at Parliament with one message. He wants politicians to declare a climate emergency. Unfortunately, that call to action has… Video, Audio

Nicola Toki Doc's Threatened Species Ambassador is here to tell us about this week's critter - the black tunnelweb spider which was Peter Jackson's inspiration for Shelob the spider in Lord of the… Audio, Gallery

Hundreds of thousands of people, and billions of dollars of property in New Zealand, are now deemed to be at risk from rivers and rising seas. The details are contained in two reports released by NIWA… Audio

Oxygen is very friendly with other chemical elements & very helpful for life on Earth, says Allan Blackman from AUT in ep 56 of Elemental. Audio

What happens if you play a Viennese waltz or death metal to beer as it brews? Experimenting with musical ways of making better beer. Audio