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Read about the important science being undertaken at NIWA, and how it affects New Zealanders

  • 2012 - Secrets of the orange roughy

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    Moored underwater cameras have exposed the secret lives of orange roughy nearly 900 metres below the ocean surface.
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    Scientists discover abrupt increase in CO2 uptake by the land biosphere

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    Scientists have discovered an abrupt increase in the uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide by the land biosphere since1988. Without this natural increase in uptake, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would probably have increased even more rapidly over the last two decades.
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    New collaborative service for universities and Crown Research Institutes

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    Tangaroa sets sail to map the seabed off Otago

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    Divers discover new to science species down in one of the deepest flooded caves in the world

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    Float your boat! Scientists use hi-tech miniature Q-boat to measure river flows

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    Scientists set to spy on rockhopper penguins

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    French and Kiwi scientists say “oui!” to stronger scientific cooperation in the South Pacific

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    Looking to the past for a complete record of earthquakes in Poverty Bay

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    NIWA returns with undersea creatures and footage of never-before-seen undersea volcanoes and canyons

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    New Zealand: first in the world to catalogue all its species through all of time

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    New Zealand is the first country in the world to catalogue its entire known living and fossil life.
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    Vital areas of New Zealand’s seafloor to be revealed in detail for the first time

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