Atmospheric analysis

The climate of Hawke’s Bay is influenced largely by the orography and the airstreams crossing New Zealand.

Auckland experiences a subtropical climate. The region lies some 13° of latitude south of the Tropic of Capricorn, so tropical plants which are protected for the winter months will flower and fruit in the summer.

This week's Critter of the Week (number 142) introduces the delicate cup coral Caryophyllia.

Human influence on the climate system is clear and growing, with impacts observed on all continents.

NIWA scientists have found a new active fault in Wellington Harbour after analysing data from a recent marine survey.

NIWA marine ecologists, including specialist divers, are heading south shortly for the second stage in a range of experiments that take place under the ice in Antarctica.

Brachiopods might look like a mollusc, but they are actually more closely related to bryozoans (lace corals).

Footage of southern right whales, filmed near Campbell Island, one of New Zealand's sub-Antarctic islands.

A stunning close up photograph of a rare, bright yellow and blue aquatic creature has been voted the winner of this year’s public choice category of NIWA’s photography competition.

Scientists on a rugged mid-winter trip to the remote sub-Antarctic islands have confirmed a large contingent of endangered southern right whales are spending the colder months near Campbell Island.

You might occasionally come across this long-spined beauty, the spiny murex or Poirieria zelandica, washed up at the beach, arguably one of our most impressive shells

CONA studies in Rangiora in 2015-17 and Alexandra in 2018 have proven that the technologies and methodologies used provide valuable data to support mitigation efforts by local authorities.