Storms and fires are on the rise, in both quantity and severity, bringing disastrous consequences to lives and livelihoods. How do we deal with the storms, particularly with the loss of power? Maria Armoudian talks to Steve Matthewman and Julie MacArthur from the University of Auckland.
Courses in the Universities School of Social Sciences have been revealed, with 250 courses from within the school approximated by a Senior lecturer within the faculty of arts. Laura Kvigstad, investigates on the claim speaking with both Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Robert Greenberg and Sociology Lecturer, Bruce Cohen on the changes. She gets both the perspective from management and the staff on the changes, hearing why it is happening but also what the potential ramifications are for the deletions.
In the first of the bFM Historical Society's NZ Music Month shows, Peter McLennan of the hallelujah Picassos and Dub Asylum talks of his parallel music and broadcasting career. Pete selects tunes representative of his time as a run of station heavy-on-the-reggae DJ and as host of the Sunday arts programme, The Culture Bunker. (Episode 10, Parts 1-2 of 2)
Gemma Gracewood 1993 to 2000 During the 1990s, Gemma single-handledly reinvented the approach of 95bFM's News & Editorial, taking the station's news content from lifting from the NZ Herald and Time magazine to a fully-functioning, national class newsroom. A Pioneer of sorts, she championed women's roles at 95bFM and had a hand at producing the Breakfast show with Mikey Havoc. She also rethought the idea of how 95bFM threw parties. (Episode 34, Parts 1-3 of 3)
This week Americans will go to the polls to vote in the midterm elections. But what is at stake? What are the factors that will determine the election’s outcome? And what do these midterms mean for the future of the US? Maria Armoudian speaks with Henry Brady, David P. Redlawsk, Jennifer Frost, and Paul Taillon.
Last week the Green Party celebrated the passing of the Crown Minerals Amendment Bill, which ensures that offshore soil and gas exploration will end in New Zealand. Co-leader, James Shaw, talked to Jemima about how this climate change action will impact the world. They also discussed the support the Green Party has shown for regulatory reform for drug control in New Zealand.
Under the Weather with Ella Christensen brings you all the climate change and weather news from across the globe every Monday. This week Ella discusses extreme flooding, increased rainfall in the Atacama desert in Chile, Utqiagvik entering its dark period, a snow storm in the north east of the US, fires caused by lightening in western Australia, wildfires in California, climate change protests in London, ocean warming, a large iceberg spotted by NASA, crab fisherman sueing oil companies and heatwaves kill sperm
In 2018, the United States and China have been embroiled in a trade war with each country continuing to raise tariffs placed on goods traded between the two nations. But what exactly are Donald Trump’s tariff policies and what will be their effects? Doug Becker speaks to Iva Bozovic and Lui Hebron about the implications of the US-China trade war.
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