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Biologist and mycologist Merlin Sheldrake explores the wonderful world of fungi in his book Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures.

He pays particular attention to underground fungal networks, which Sheldrake calls the tissue that holds together much of the world. He talks to Kim Hill.

The Berlin Wall had just fallen and the Soviet Union was on the verge of collapse when German band The Scorpions released their 1990 song Wind of Change.

Decades later, investigative journalist Patrick Radden Keefe heard a rumour that the song wasn't written by the Scorpions but by the CIA as a cultural weapon in the Cold War.

Actor, model, producer, activist and former fitness guru Jane Fonda reflects on her relationship with climate change activism in a new book: What Can I Do? My Path from Climate Despair to Action.

The kākāpō, or night parrot, is one of the world’s most unusual birds. Join Alison Ballance on an audio adventure through the biggest kākāpō breeding season on record. In part 1 of this remarkable story we meet the rare bird and discover the night sounds of Whenua Hou/Codfish Island with Deidre Vercoe, Andrew Digby and Tane Davis.

The summer weather goes hand-in-hand with fortnightly lawn mowing for lots of New Zealanders.

But a number of ecologists are encouraging Kiwis to cut down on cutting the grass.

William Ray investigates how a ‘no-mow’ movement might be a win for people, plants, animals - and the climate.

Steve Trewick invented the weta hotel. And he has had a weta named after him, the Hawkes Bay tree weta, Hemideina trewicki.

Professor Steve Trewick's team has been in Blenheim recently, trying to work out why ground weta seem to be making a nuisance of themselves in among grape vines, eating the early curled buds.

Snipeologist, Te Papa ornithologist, and founder of NZ Birds Online Colin Miskelly tells Kathryn Ryan why birds have been taking his fancy for over four decades.

Miskelly is one of the editors of a new collection of science papers Lost Gold - Ornithology of the subantarctic Auckland Islands.

James Canton talks with Kathryn Ryan about the two years he spent visiting and studying an 800 year old oak tree in Essex. His book The Oak Papers is a meditation on the life of the tree, the wider natural world and humans' connection with them. He says humans have had a close association with oak trees since pre-history.

Inequity provokes primal emotions, as proven by one of the world's foremost primatologists Frans de Waal, whose research shows what happens when two cappucin monkeys are paid differently for doing the same task.

Associate Professor Daphne Lee from the Department of Geology at the University of Otago talk to us about recent research from Otago's controversial Foulden Maar site where mummified leaves could give us an insight into how ancient plants responded to living in a world with elevated levels of carbon dioxide. She talks to Bryan Crump.