Atmospheric analysis

A hotspot persists and has expanded in the Wairarapa region. In the South Island, hotspots exist in eastern Marlborough and from central Canterbury through to northeast Otago.

Three plants of an endemic submerged quillwort (Isoëtes) were recovered from Lake Ōmāpere by NIWA in 1998, prior to the lake weed (Egeria densa) dying off and the lake switching into an algal dominated turbid state. No further isoëtes plants have been observed in the lake since that time.

Understanding our future climate so New Zealanders can adapt and thrive is the aim of the Deep South National Science Challenge, which today announced its first allocation of funds to improve predictions of climate change.

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

The squid genus Histioteuthis is commonly known as the violet or cock-eyed squid.

The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has released a report warning that New Zealand needs to better prepare for rising seas on its coastal towns and cities.

Te Papa has released a publication containing information, including pictures, distribution maps for all 1,262 known fish species found in our waters.

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

New Zealand scientists are part of an international team that has documented duelling ocean and atmospheric heat transport during periods of abrupt climate change.

The Southern Ocean is under-sampled. Data collected continuously during the Antarctic Ecosystems Voyagehelped fill an important knowledge gap about oceanographic and atmospheric processes in this important region.

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

This week’s critter is a living deep sea treasure, in a group commonly known as the golden corals.