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Voices from Antarctica 08 | Under the ice
Season 6 Episode 8
Tiny plants that live on the underside of sea ice form an upside-down garden that feeds krill and is the base of the Antarctic food web.
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7 months ago
Voices from Antarctica 07 | What the ice is saying
Season 6 Episode 7
Researchers are using hot water to drill through the Ross ice shelf, to discover what has happened to Antarctic ice during previous periods of warm c…
7 months, 1 week ago
Voices from Antarctica 06 | Seal songs
Season 6 Episode 6
Alison Ballance eavesdrops on the songs of the world's southern-most mammal, the Weddell seal, and finds out about sea ice.
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7 months, 2 weeks ago
Voices from Antarctica 05 | Waiting for Emperors
Season 6 Episode 5
Emperor penguin researchers are waiting for tagged birds to return, and an elderly radar system sheds light on a very windy part of the atmosphere.
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7 months, 3 weeks ago
Voices from Antarctica 04 | Best journey in the world
Season 6 Episode 4
Alison Ballance meets a colony of Emperor penguins and their NIWA researchers, and finds out about making water on the frozen continent.
This series w…
8 months ago
Voices from Antarctica 03 | Flags to physics
Season 6 Episode 3
Keeping Scott Base warm and well-lit no matter the weather outside, and a physics experiment that eavesdrops on messages to submarines.
This series wa…
8 months, 1 week ago
Voices from Antarctica 02 | Scott Base
Season 6 Episode 2
Alison Ballance has her first day at New Zealand's Antarctic station, Scott Base, and visits the historic Hillary's Hut.
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8 months, 2 weeks ago
Voices from Antarctica 01 | Ice Flight
Season 6 Episode 1
Alison Ballance dons her extreme cold weather clothing for a trip to Antarctica - but getting to the frozen continent can take time.
This episode was …
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Introducing: Voices from Antarctica
Season 6
Alison Ballance finds out what it takes to live in and do science in Antarctica, in a podcast series recorded on the frozen continent in November 201…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Fight for the Wild 04 | What's in it for us?
Season 5 Episode 4
In the series finale, Hope, we get a glimpse of what a predator-free Aotearoa could look like, and look at the breakthrough technologies and innovati…
8 months, 4 weeks ago