Atmospheric analysis

Read the latest news and updates from the Kermadec expedition 2016.

Live from Tangaroa. Amelia from The Pew Charitable Trusts will keep you up-to-date with all the action from RV Tangaroa through her regular blog posts.

An update for 20 October describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.

A critically endangered turtle today began a two-day journey back to its home in Rangitāhua, the Kermadecs.

Marino Tahi is a man who speaks volumes between sentences.

The giant sea slater Bathynomus giganteus A. Milne Edwards, 1879 is an abundant isopod species of massive size from the family Cirolanidae.

Moderate La Niña or neutral tropical conditions expected to produce near average activity across most islands.

The winning photos of the 2016 NIWA Staff Photographic Competition. Read more about the winning photos

From one pole to the other, NIWA scientists work in some of the world’s most extraordinary landscapes.

The NIWA Invertebrate Collection mainly consists of samples collected in the deepsea, but occasionally we find shallow exceptions like this stunning sea urchin.

NIWA scientists are this week making the final preparations for one of the organisation’s busiest summers at Antarctica.

And... what would that mean for New Zealand?