Rod Oram gives us some Political Commentary about what themes appear to be revealing themselves in the policy announcements from parties leading up to this year's election, as well as his thoughts on the reforms of the Resource Management Act. Lucinda Bennett chats risotto and warming carby stuff for the chilling evenings of winter on Breakfast Food. Juno Is dials in from the remote Nelson bush, to talk about her new release, The Highway Song. Abigail Macilquham from Horn dials in to talk about the release of the band’s self-titled debut album. Natural Ange pops in to give holistic natural advice about the listeners' aches, pains and flu recovery plans. We also recap your Top 10 for this week. Whakarongo mai nei!
Forest & Bird is calling on Aucklanders to tell their council to reinstate protection for nature in this year’s budget.
The Auckland Council’s ‘Emergency Budget’ more than halves the Environmental Services capital expenditure budget, dropping support for pest control, the kauri dieback programme, and planting, among other things.
Forest & Bird’s Auckland Regional Manager, Nick Beveridge, says “our natural world is in crisis” & “these are things we must act on now”. Producer Louis Laws spoke with him this morning on the Auckland Councils proposal ...
On Dear Science with AUT’s Marcus Jones we talk on Gene edits to 'CRISPR' babies which may lead to shortened life spans, Reproducibility trial publishes two conclusions for one paper, and 16 days coal free in UK (and counting).