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NIWA’s priority is to provide the safest possible working environment for all our staff and people who work with us in our workplaces, in the context of the increasing community transmission of COVID-19.

2 reports presenting the value of Crown Research Institutes in Aotearoa New Zealand's science system today and pathways to the future.

Read NIWA's 2020/21 Annual Report and 2021 Year in Review.

A break in the clouds in a remote Fiordland valley and a chance encounter with a jellyfish under the Antarctic ice provide just some of the highlights from this year’s NIWA Staff Photography competition.

Read NIWA's 2020 Half Year Report.

This is a special series of stories put out to the media over the 2020/2021 summer.

Read NIWA's 2019/20 Annual Report and 2020 Year in Review.

Government scientists commemorated their 2020 award winners at the annual Science New Zealand awards celebration at Parliament last week.

A NIWA marine ecologist has added his name to a very short list of people worldwide who have seen—and photographed the elusive football octopus.