Beef cattle account for roughly 10% of Aotearoa New Zealand's total greenhouse gas emissions. There's plenty of research looking into methods to reduce emissions - vaccines, seaweed-based feed, and selective breeding programs are all being explored. But according to a new AgResearch study there could be a simpler way.

A new study has found that native plants in Tongariro National Park are being hit hard by the spread of invasive heather, with a 40 to 50 percent decline in native species in some areas. Dr Julie Deslippe, a senior lecturer in biological sciences at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington joined Jesse.

Today on the pre-panel producer Carol Stiles joins Wallace Chapman & Jesse Mulligan to preview tonight's show.

Our Changing World goes in search of one of Aotearoa’s rarest plants – the stunning kakabeak, or ngutukākā.  Its clusters of bright red blooms, each shaped like a parrot’s beak, make it a popular garden plant. But in the wild, ngutukākā is barely holding on. Considered “nationally critical” by the Department of Conservation, only about 100 individual ngutukākā plants survive, clinging to exposed steep bluffs where goats and rabbits can’t get to them. But now, locals along the East Coast, the...

Data is more than numbers on a chart according to graphic designer Dr Giorgia Lupi. Data is a way to tell stories.

This recipe loosely steals its inspiration for the classic French salad. Get the recipe here.

Jesse talks to the authors of Pilgrimage Aotearoa, a guidebook outlining a New Zealand route for Pilgrims.

While you're enjoying the summer this year, a group of student scientists will spend it checking for E. coli and enterococci.

Wellington's first 6 Green Star building - 8 Willis St - has been lauded both here and overseas.

Why do crowd estimates differ so much? And how do experts accurately measure crowd sizes? 

"We only deserve it if we share it." This was the unwritten rule in the home where food writer and entrepreneur Lola Millholland grew up. Her parents always welcomed exchange students, friends, artists and just about anyone who needed a place to stay. While the communal house may have been chaotic and messy, Millholland says she discovered that friendships and non-romantic relationships can provide stability and security that's undervalued. She's written a book about some of the many meals...

Back on the job Brad Foster talks about what's happening in Australia. The big news is broadcaster Alan Jones' arrest due to allegations of indecent assault and a high-profile manslaughter trial around the tasing of a 95-year-old.

Pip Adams makes some personal recommendations around books and writing that she found useful when formulating her thoughts around the debate around the bill.

Our technology expert Dan Watson has just come back from a 5-day tramp in the South Island, and he runs through some of the aps and tools he's used on the journey.

We check in with reporter Layla Bailey-McDowell who is deep in the crowd amassing at Parliament today.

Our grandparents used to do the washing once a week. Now New Zealanders use billions of litres of water every year, just on laundry. Katy Gosset looks at whether we're washing our clothes too often.

Every now and again we receive an email from a listener suggesting we speak to a particular person - someone with an impressive story to tell. That's how we came to be in touch with Fergus Morunga. Fergus is 18 years old and is the out-going head prefect at Hastings' Lindisfarne College - among other things he's a film maker, a pipe major, a fundraising champion, a good scholar, an accomplished sportsman and a respected young leader.

On the 3rd Monday of November Timaru echoes with the sound of horns. So much so the first time it happened the police received multiple complaints. But now, 17 years on, the whole community are behind the wee scamps Its Toot for Tucker. The project, organised by the lions club is a collection for local foodbanks Founding member Lynette Doggett joins Afternoons.

10 years ago, four friends working as Stephen Fry's fact "elves" started a podcast called No Such Thing As a Fish.

The humble root vegetable has grown to be part of our national identity. Our expert today is Ruawai kumara grower Warwick Simpson.

So far Jesse has called Whakatane, Motueka and Kurow to name just a few. Where will my producer send him next? Let's find out.

Caitlin Cherry reviews two new TVNZ shows, Matlock and A Remarkable Place to Die.

Craft Gin is experiencing a surge in popularity across New Zealand.

13-year-old Elly Grady's debut children's book is an oral history of her Kereru, Hawkes Bay community.

For the past 20 years hundreds of Kiwi teachers have taken part in a programme that's allowed them to experience life in a Samoan village.