Climate change

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.

We can explore how the world may change due to climate change by creating climate models.

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.

New Zealand’s climate can be defined as ‘temperate’. However, every so often we experience extremes.

When we talk about the future, we often talk about climate change.

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.