Climate change

NIWA’s flagship research vessel Tangaroa leaves soon on a six-week voyage to Antarctica, making it one of the few full scientific expeditions to the continent since the global outbreak of COVID-19.

Our Future Climate New Zealand is an interactive website that lets you to look at projections for a number of climate variables for New Zealand between now and 2100.

A new study has identified seven freshwater species native to Aotearoa-New Zealand that will likely be highly or very highly vulnerable to climate change.

NIWA is using serious games to look at problems holistically, support understanding and give a framework for adaptation decisions.

Some of the most striking images of lockdown around the world have been the blue skies of cities ordinarily choking in smog. From New Delhi to Los Angeles, Beijing to Paris, the changes were so remarkable they were visible from space.

Among the multitude of New Zealand climate statistics there is one record that continues to be broken month after month.

Scientists analysing end-of-summer snowline survey photos have estimated that 13 million cubic meters of ice have been lost from just one glacier from 2016 to 2019.

The NCCRA assessment was commissioned by the Ministry for the Environment and has identified the most significant risks we face from climate change. It will feed into the Government’s national adaptation plan.

This is one of the most extreme drought events for Auckland in modern times and similar to one experienced in 1993/94.

Analysis of drought conditions across New Zealand this year shows it is one of the most severe on record for some regions.

A little can mean a lot – especially when it comes to the relationship between sea level rise and coastal flooding.