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Read NIWA's 2020 Half Year Report.

This is a special series of stories put out to the media over the 2020/2021 summer.

Read NIWA's 2019/20 Annual Report and 2020 Year in Review.

Government scientists commemorated their 2020 award winners at the annual Science New Zealand awards celebration at Parliament last week.

A NIWA marine ecologist has added his name to a very short list of people worldwide who have seen—and photographed the elusive football octopus.

An invention that could save lives has taken the top spot at the NIWA Waikato Science and Technology Fair.

As the world battles a deadly pandemic, New Zealand school students have been beavering away at science fair projects researching the effectiveness of our own COVID-19 protection measures.

Getting tangled up in seaweed or using supercomputers to unravel climate change – NIWA scientists go to great lengths to find fresh answers.

NIWA’s Chief Executive John Morgan looks at the role science will play in New Zealand’s post-Covid recovery.