Atmospheric analysis

A 13-year-old Waikato school student has been testing his mother’s assurance that sunscreens past their expiry dates are still effective.

A group of year 12 students in South Auckland has been tackling one of New Zealand’s biggest health issues – our high skin cancer rate.

This list of resources will support your climate change adaptation planning.

Adapting to climate change is dynamic and uncertain. This step provides guidance on how you can keep your analysis, decisions and responses relevant and up-to-date in a continually changing environment.

This step will help you identify options for action, bearing in mind that often decisions have to be made with limited information.

In this step you will identify your climate change risks, compare them to other (non-climate) risks affecting you face and piroritise your responses.

This step helps you assess your resilience to current climate risk.

This step helps you understand risk, climate and adaptation, as well as reasons to adapt.

A Tauranga school student has solved a crucial problem for dog owners in the face of a ban on plastic bags.

A project to restore a stream catchment in Kaikōura—damaged in the 2016 earthquake—is being described as inspirational by NIWA scientists.

What do taewa Māori (Māori potatoes) and Swiss cheese have in common? For NIWA social scientist Stephen FitzHerbert it’s much more than a tasty snack.

Cathy Kilroy is quick to admit she’s a person who doesn’t like throwing anything away.