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On 1 July 2025, NIWA merged with GNS Science to become Earth Sciences New Zealand.

Benjamin Hmiel

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Ice core drilling
NIWA

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New Zealand Drought Index 17 February 2020
Infographic: NIWA

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Soil moisture anomaly map 18 February 2020
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Advocados
Dave Allen, NIWA

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Kōura, Aotearoa’s freshwater crayfish
Dave Allen, NIWA

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2018 Annual Snowline Survey
Bex_Parsons-King, NIWA

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Jerome Mallefet holding a seal shark.
Dr J.Mallefet FNRS Belgium

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Seal shark [left] and lucifer dogfish [right].
Brit Finucci, NIWA

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The eye of the giant squid
Brit Finucci, NIWA

Darren Stevens measures the giant squid.
From the ERSSTv5 dataset Australian Bureau of Meteorology/NIWA

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[Map:IPCC]

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