New research led by Earth Sciences New Zealand reveals that more than 750,000 New Zealanders live in locations exposed to flooding from one-in-100-year rainfall flooding events. And this number could ...

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 ...

The newly described Australasian Narrow-nosed Spookfish, Harriotta avia. The Australasian Narrow-nosed Spookfish was described by NIWA Fisheries Scientist Dr Brit Finucci. It was previously thought to ...

A new NIWA-led study has found that climate change increased the amount of total rainfall during Cyclone Gabrielle by 10%. This additional rain fell during the most intense parts of the storm, ...

Stories of tremendous forest fires, huge storm events, and suffocating heatwaves have dominated headlines over the past few years. We instinctively feel that our weather is getting wilder. Are we ...

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 ...

The website Ian Wishart has based his opinions on is not New Zealand’s national climate database. Wishart has conflated the Historic Weather Events website with the New Zealand National Climate ...

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

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 ...

Long-term protection of Otago’s coastal habitats took a step closer to reality after more than 100 marine Significant Ecological Areas (SEA) were identified as part of a research project led by NIWA.

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 ...

Thirty eight scientists and crew will set sail today for Antarctica on NIWA’s research vessel Tangaroa, with the aim of going as far south as the Ross Ice Shelf - a first for the ship. The ship, with ...