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Climate change content for school kids gets revamp
Media release27 March 2020Young New Zealanders can now access the most up-to-date educational material about the science of climate change and its impacts on Aotearoa thanks to NIWA’s new web section: 'Climate change information for climate solvers' -
Volunteers needed to unlock historic weather secrets 16 March 2020
Media release16 March 2020NIWA climate scientists are asking for volunteers to help give its historic weather project a quick, sharp boost. -
More snow on glaciers but no good news, say scientists
Media release06 March 2020Scientists have recorded more snow on the South Island glaciers this year, but they warn it is simply a temporary break rather than any good news on the climate change front. -
We don’t know much about lakes and climate change, says researcher
Media release05 March 2020Scientists know so little about how storms affect the delicate balance of lake ecosystems that we may be unable to protect them from the effects of climate change, says a NIWA scientist. -
Scientists to check out ash on New Zealand glaciers
Media release05 March 2020Scientists undertaking the annual Southern Alps end-of-summer snowline survey this week will be using advanced photographic technology to help clarify obscure snowlines due to ash and dust from the Australian bushfires. -
Scientists say methane emitted by humans ‘vastly underestimated’
Media release20 February 2020NIWA researchers have helped unlock information trapped in ancient air samples from Greenland and Antarctica that shows the amount of methane humans are emitting into the atmosphere from fossil fuels has been vastly underestimated. -
The man of many pathways
Feature story01 February 2020Dr Rob Bell worked out a long time ago that sea-level rise is much more than a scientific problem. No wonder then that people say his ability to listen is one of his best traits. -
Ten years of the weather with you
Feature story30 December 2019In the past 10 years, more weather records have been broken than in any other time in New Zealand’s history. -
Hottest November on record: NIWA climate scientists
Media release04 December 2019New Zealand has just experienced its hottest November on record, according to NIWA climate scientists. -
The week it snowed everywhere
Media release21 November 2019Novel handwriting recognition project casts new light on historic weather data. -
Handwriting recognition casts new light on climate change
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Planning an ocean observation network
Media release03 October 2019New Zealand’s changing ocean environment has prompted the call to develop a system that will keep closer tabs on information from scientific monitoring buoys so the data they produce can be shared as widely as possible.