Videos

View the very latest from NIWA Forecaster Chris Brandolino on the expected impacts former Tropical Cyclone Pam will have on parts of the North Island.

Watch the very latest from NIWA Forecaster Chris Brandolino on Tropical Cyclone Pam’s expected movements and impacts on New Zealand.

Watch the very latest from NIWA Forecaster Chris Brandolino on Tropical Cyclone Pam’s expected movements and impacts on New Zealand.

Watch the very latest from NIWA Forecaster Chris Brandolino on Tropical Cyclone Pam's expected movements and impacts on New Zealand.

Niwa scientists have anchored an echosounder to the sea floor of Terra Nova Bay that could reveal the mystery of silverfish reproduction under the Antarctic ice.

NIWA Forecaster Chris Brandolino discusses possible impacts on New Zealand as Tropical Cyclone Pam begins moving towards our region.

Footage - mostly time lapse - from the New Zealand-Australia Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015...with some random music!

NIWA’s RV Tangaroa encounters bad weather while returning to New Zealand from Antarctica.

Highlights of the New Zealand-Australia Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015.

Ice pilot Scott Laughlin is on the New Zealand - Australia Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage to guide RV Tangaroa through the Antarctic waters.

Serious flooding often causes major problems for those living near the Nadi river basin in Fiji.

Anal Chandra from Fiji's Meteorological Service talks about collaborating with NIWA and creating a better network of weather stations across Fiji.

Pacific Rim Manager Doug Ramsay gives an overview of NIWA's work in the Pacific.

Improvements in water supply throughout rural Fiji have created sanitation issues relating to greater volumes of waste water for disposal.

Over the last 50 years the atoll of South Tarawa, in Kiribati has experienced large increases in population.

The region around the Balleny Islands is a known foraging area for humpback whales. Objective one of the Antarctica voyage aimed to determine why the Islands are such a popular spot for humpback whales.

NIWA scientists aboard RV Tangaroa have been trawling the central Ross Sea calculating the abundance of the prey species.

NIWA research vessel Tangaroa, down in Antarctic waters, received some welcome visitors yesterday

Watch NIWA's RV Tangaroa making its way through icy waters in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.

Antarctic blue whales were severely depleted during the industrial whaling era, when the population declined to only a few hundred individuals. Scientists believe the Antarctic blue whale population has been recovering, albeit very slowly, since the 1960s.