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The strong wind and rain that has battered Auckland this week has presented some special challenges for workers trying to paint NIWA’s flagship research vessel Tangaroa while she has been in dry dock.

One hundred people, a Gulfstream jet, some of the best technology available and two scientists in a paddock are undertaking an experiment that will make predicting the weather a lot more accurate.

A video has been produced to show how NIWA and a range of partners are collaborating to understand global ocean acidification and how increasing ocean acidity is affecting shellfish and the aquaculture industry.

NIWA scientists are this month launching some cutting-edge technology capable of finding out what's going on at the bottom of the ocean.

Prime Minister John Key and Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce had a surprise meeting at NIWA's Fieldays stand today.

NIWA has a message for opening day visitors to the rural sector’s biggest event of the year: go prepared.

NIWA scientists are this month taking a significant role in one of the largest science experiments to take place in New Zealand.

A marine animal thought to have been extinct for four million years has been found alive and well and living near Picton.

NIWA scientists have made a breakthrough in understanding one of the key processes driving changes in sea ice.

A joint New Zealand-German research team has discovered a huge network of frozen methane and methane gas in sediments and in the ocean near New Zealand’s east coast.

Our outlooks indicate the likelihood of climate conditions being at, above, or below average for the season as a whole, at a national and regional level.

NIWA scientists are among a small group working to understand why New Zealand's sea lion population is declining. Using a range of methods, they're finding that the cause of the decline is varied, and includes changes in diet, bacterial infection, low pupping rates and low survival rates.