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The discovery of diaries of an English missionary living in Northland in the 1800s reveals him as New Zealand’s first meteorologist.

The first six months of 2016 are set to be the warmest ever start to the year, according to NIWA’s long-term seven-station temperature series.

NIWA Meteorologist Ben Noll takes a north-to-south look at the record-breaking warm temperatures experienced by Kiwis during the winter solstice.

An important scientific milestone was reached on a windswept point at the bottom of the North Island this week.

The sounds made by whales and dolphins as they pass through New Zealand’s Cook Strait are to be recorded for the first time through a research project being undertaken by a NIWA scientist.

Anyone can participate, and all you need is access to the sea, a smartphone or a camera and computer.

A potent storm strengthening over the Tasman Sea will move over New Zealand tonight and pummel the country with heavy, possibly flooding, rain and damaging wind gusts.

Taxonomy is one of New Zealand’s most important sciences but its impact is often not widely known nor understood.

Across the North Island, soil moisture levels have generally remained the same or decreased slightly when compared to this time last week.

NIWA may lose valuable scientific equipment after two massive icebergs broke off the Antarctic coastline over the weekend.

Across the North Island, soil moisture levels have generally remained the same or increased when compared to this time last week.

A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent. Regions experiencing these soil moisture deficits are deemed “hotspots”. Persistent hotspot regions have the potential to develop into drought.