Climate change

New Zealand has just experienced its warmest winter on record, according to official NIWA climate data.

Ocean acidification is the name given to the lowering of pH of the oceans as a result of increasing carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere.

The greenhouse effect is a warming of the earth's surface and lower atmosphere caused by substances which let the sun's energy through to the ground but impede the passage of energy from the earth back into space.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is charged with assessing the most up to date scientific, technical and socio-economic research on climate change.

Effects of climate change on fish are being studied at NIWA's Northland Marine Research Centre.

Top of Natalie Robinson’s to-do list right now is to work out exactly what she’s brought back from Antarctica.

NIWA scientists are to undertake a major research project to determine how New Zealand’s marine ecosystems are faring under climate change.

The World Meteorological Organisation Congress has confirmed NIWA's Lauder atmospheric research station as one of Earth's leading providers of upper-air data critical for measuring climate change.