Atmospheric analysis

As the Tasman Tempest headed east off New Zealand today, it’s time to look at the statistics and see how many records it washed away.

In this critter "quill" is not part of a feather but rather a unique tube built by a polychaete worm that lives in it.

NIWA meteorologist Ben Noll says parts of the upper North Island have received more rain in two days than normally falls for the entire month.

A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.

Summer officially ends tomorrow but for Wellingtonians it feels like it’s only just getting started. NIWA meteorologist Ben Noll explains what went wrong.

Huge mudslides from November’s earthquakes have wiped out all organisms living in the seabed of the Kaikōura Canyon.

A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.

NIWA scientists on board RV Ikatere have been surveying the coastal area around Kaikoura for the first time since November's magnitude 7.8 earthquake.

Effects of climate change on fish are being studied at NIWA's Northland Marine Research Centre.

We examine how the Sustainable Seas National Science Challenge plans to enhance the use of marine resources within biological constraints.