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

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.

A whole of catchment Report Card for the Waikato and Waipa rivers has been released by the Waikato River Authority giving the catchment an anticipated low rating for its wellbeing.

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.

NIWA researchers have spent part of the last month keeping a close eye on the bottom of Lake Tekapo to find out what it looks like and what is going on below the lake bed.

A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.

A breakthrough in understanding about the causes of climate change has today been published online in the prestigious international journal Science.

NIWA climate scientists studying the diaries of an early English missionary stationed in the Far North have found the oldest surviving long-term instrumental weather records made in New Zealand.