Joe does a brief report on the Line 3 Pipeline issue, an oil pipeline currently threatening the ancestral land of Indeginous people in the US and Canada.
This week on Dear Science Frances Wright talks with AUT professor Marcus Jones about and IPCC report that says human influence on global warming is 'unequivocal', an analysis which reveals that strange turns of phrase may indicate foul play in science, and the explanation of a mysterious dimming of the bright star Betelgeuse.
Justin spoke to Health Minister Andrew Little about the new health indicators as part of the health sector reforms, and the bill to ban conversion therapy passing first reading at Parliament.
New Zealand's revamped Covid-19 strategy would include an accelerated vaccination rollout, a new individual risk-based border, and self-isolation at home for vaccinated travellers instead of two weeks at MIQ.
Joe speaks to Lisa McEwan, Senior Lecturer of Art & Design at AUT and expert on the globalised fashion industry, on the impact that Fast Fashion and Greenwashing has on the environment and how we can do better.
This week, Stella and Isla dive into the future of our oceans. Talking to Dr Linn Hoffmann from the University of Otago, they cover the role of phytoplankton in the ecosystem, environmental stressors on our coastlines, and possible solutions.
A new report has detailed the importance of the 1987 Montreal Protocol, which prohibited the use of chlorofluorocarbons in order to protect the Ozone layer. Noah Ferguson-Dudding spoke to one of the author's of the report, Olaf Morgenstern from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, about what lessons can be taken to combat future climate change.
Genomic sequencing has been mentioned frequently in recent announcements about tracking Covid-19. Noah Ferguson-Dudding spoke to Dr David Welch from the University of Auckland about how the technology behind genomic sequencing has advanced, and how it is particularly useful when looking at the Delta variant of Covid-19.
This week on Dear Science, Frances was joined by AUT professor Marcus Jones where they talked about the effectiveness of COVID vaccines against Delta, massive volcanoes cooling the earth, and the genetic pattern which offers clues to the evolution of homosexuality.
Even though we are in lockdown, Climate Change is still impacting New Zealand. But are human factors lessened because of lockdown? Conor investigates by speaking to NIWA scientist Dr. Sara Mikaloff-Fletcher. They discuss 2020's lockdown figures, and use that data to examine this lockdown and the future of climate change both nationally and globally.
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