The land used to produce crops is usually flat to gently rolling so it can be tilled, sowed, and harvested.

How may forestry activities increase sediments in waterways?

An unavoidable delay in a research ship’s voyage to Antarctica resulted in some surprising and important findings about the behaviour of emperor penguins.

Southland is both the most southerly and most westerly part of New Zealand and generally is the first to be influenced by weather systems moving onto the country from the west or south.

We can supply a wide range of weather or climate monitoring instruments from single parameter sensors to fully equipped and installed climate stations.

NIWA is managed by an Executive Team reporting to the Chief Executive Officer. Science and operational matters are handled by two sub-groups.

NIWA oceanographer Dr Cliff Law explains the impacts of ocean acidification on organisms that use carbonates to build their shells, and on bacteria.

If you're collecting sea shells at the beach this summer and wondering what they are, NIWA is here to help.

Banded kōkopu juveniles are very good climbers and will try to escape from buckets by clinging to and wriggling up the sides.

A range of different mining techniques have been developed to obtain these valuable resources

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