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If we can understand how the Earth’s climate has changed in the past, we can use that information to understand how it might change in the future.

Pressure One of the main things we have to watch to understand the weather is the presence of low and high pressure. Areas with low pressure are usually associated with bad weather. If an area has low ...

A New Zealand-led team has completed the fullest investigation to date into January’s eruption of the underwater Tongan volcano. Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai (HT-HH) emitted the biggest atmospheric ...

NIWA is part of a multi-agency biosecurity response to an invasive seaweed discovered at Aotea Great Barrier Island and subsequently at Ahuahu Great Mercury Island.

Scientists have found a new ghost shark that lives exclusively in the deep waters of Australia and New Zealand. The Australasian Narrow-nosed Spookfish was described by NIWA Fisheries Scientist Dr ...

A new study from NIWA has mapped outdoor air quality for Invercargill and Alexandra in more detail than ever before. Researchers found that outdoor air in the most polluted locations contained three ...

New maps from NIWA and the Deep South National Science Challenge show areas across Aotearoa New Zealand that could be inundated by extreme coastal flooding. They show a large storm-tide with the ...

Two reports released today by NIWA and the Deep South National Science Challenge reveal new information about how many New Zealanders, how many buildings and how much infrastructure could be affected ...

New Zealand has joined an international satellite mission focused on fighting climate change from space. Stacy Mohan reports.

NIWA has developed a Photarium using the latest 3D printing technology to more safely identify and measure fish species that live in our waterways. According to Statistics NZ, 76 percent of the 51 ...

Microbes - such as those living in wetlands, landfills or the digestive tracts of livestock – are behind unprecedented spikes in methane emissions.