Climate change

An interactive tool that supports adaptation planning through the exploration of our environment in future climate scenarios.

Future Coasts Aotearoa is empowering communities to confront climate change with practical and interactive tools designed to inspire meaningful science-based conversations around adaptation. 

With sea levels expected to rise in New Zealand, the Future Coasts Aotearoa programme is researching how rising seas could raise groundwater levels and affect lowland farming.

Degraded estuaries are less resilient to the impacts of heatwaves, new research from Earth Sciences New Zealand shows.

Earth Sciences New Zealand are creating an AI-driven national forecasting system to effectively manage marine heatwaves.

Ōtautahi Christchurch hosted NZ’s largest-ever climate event, uniting global leaders and experts, 13–16 October.

A new report has outlined how gradual long-term warming of the waters around New Zealand, and an increase in short-term heat events, are likely under different greenhouse gas emission scenarios.

Global warming is changing how we monitor one of the world’s biggest climate drivers, says Earth Sciences New Zealand.

A new study shows a significant change in Antarctic phytoplankton over time that could cascade through the marine food web and affect the ocean’s capacity as a carbon sink. 

New high-resolution modelling predicts that rainfall from tropical cyclones will significantly increase under global warming.

NIWA are developing a modelling approach to better predict fish abundances in the past, to then be able to forecast fish abundances in the future under climate change and fishing scenarios

Seven nations sharing world’s longest mountain range already impacted by climate change