Climate change

This is one of the key conclusions announced today by Working Group 1 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, in the summary of its contribution to the IPCC's Fifth Assessment. 

Much of NIWA's science uses an instrument known as a mass spectrometer. But what is a mass spectrometer, and how to they work?

Scientists have discovered an abrupt increase in the uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide by the land biosphere since1988. Without this natural increase in uptake, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would probably have increased even more rapidly over the last two decades.

Antarctica sea ice and climate change

Importance of Antarctic sea ice in Earth's ocean systems and climate change

Dr Dave Bowden outlines concerns over the impacts of climate change on deepsea life in Antarctic waters.

Role of Southern Ocean as Earth's carbon sink

Antarctic sea ice: what it is, why it's important, and the difficulty in measuring its extent