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Feature: Joining the flooded dots
8 October 2017
The term “joined-up government” was coined in the late 1990s to describe the coordination modern governments need to deal with large problems.
Flood focus
8 October 2017
Autumn and winter rain caused damaging floods and slips across New Zealand, yet again. Susan Pepperell investigates the nation's evolving skill in avoiding and coping with water.
Kaikōura Canyon shows early signs of ecosystem recovery
19 September 2017
NIWA scientists have found signs of recovery in the Kaikōura Canyon seabed, 10 months after powerful submarine landslides triggered by the November earthquake wiped out organisms living in and on the seabed.
Tiny air bubbles reveal new information about greenhouse gas emissions
24 August 2017
Sitting at the surface of Taylor Glacier in Antarctica, are layers of ice more than 10,000 years old. And trapped inside those layers are bubbles of ancient air – like tiny time capsules - able to tell scientists a story about what the world used to be like and how humans have changed it.
Raising the bar for swimmable rivers
20 June 2017
The government has released the ‘Clean Water’ package of proposed reforms, aimed at making more of our rivers swimmable. But how is ‘swimmable’ to be measured, and do these measures stack up?