Ocean

Sixty food and wine lovers spend a morning picking, foraging, digging, fishing and even shooting a host of foods in the Waipara Valley. In the afternoon eight top chefs convert the fresh bounty into… Audio, Gallery

Sixty food and wine lovers spend a morning picking, foraging, digging, fishing and even shooting a host of foods in the Waipara Valley. In the afternoon eight top chefs convert the fresh bounty into… Audio, Gallery

A new international study estimates 90 percent of the world's seabirds have pieces of plastic in their stomachs. The Tasmania based Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, CSIRO… Audio

Long-nosed spookfish and other chimaeras are among a suite of weird, little known deep sea sharks that sport spiky sex organs on their head, enormous noses, fierce spines and long tails Audio, Gallery

The Māori word of the week is: moana - sea. Pōkarekare ana ngā wai o te moana. The waters of the ocean are choppy. Audio

Otago University's Dr Matthew Clarkson says ocean acidification triggered massive species extinction: a wake up call to the perils of a changing climate today. Audio

Painter, poet, curator and writer discussing his new collection, Whale Years, the Art4Vanuatu auction, and the new collection Charles Brasch: Selected Poems. Audio

Director of the Antarctic Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington. He will discuss the new findings this week on the decrease in volume of Antarctic ice. Audio

A just finished six year study has found there are more than 5 trillion pieces of plastic floating in the world's oceans. Audio

Dame Anne Salmond discusses Maori relations with the ocean, comparing Te Whanau a Apanui's opposition to the oil company Petrobras' drilling ship to the time 250 years earlier when canoes headed out… Audio

Every year thousands of whales have to be rescued after getting tangled in nets and ropes. Just last week a young humpback had to be cut free near Kaikoura by a specially trained team of volunteers… Audio

Movie director (Titanic, Avatar) and executive producer of new documentary Deepsea Challenge 3D, which chronicles his piloting of a solo submersible to the depths of the Pacific Ocean's Mariana… Audio

Richard Robinson discusses his career as a photojournalist and recent decision go freelancing as an underwater photographer. Audio

Rob DeConto is an ice-sheet and climate modeller, and he warns that if polar ice sheets melt global sea level could rise by 60 metres Audio

Dunsandel-based writer with a Ph.D. in engineering, discussing wave energy. Audio

Oceanographers aboard NIWA's research vessel Tangaroa are testing a deep-diving Argo float to monitor changes in the oceans at depths to 6000 metres. Audio

Oceanographers aboard NIWA's research vessel Tangaroa are testing deep-diving Argo floats that monitor changes in the oceans at depths to 6000 metres. Audio

Jellyfish are eating our food, shutting down our power plants, and stinging us! In her book 'Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean' Lisa-ann Gershwin looks at the abundance of… Audio

This week looks at marine conservation. Audio