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A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.

A bright pink sea star and an orange sea spider are among the strange creatures of the Antarctic sea floor featured on new commemorative stamps.

The seafloor of the Ross Sea region is covered in ice for much of the year, but many benthic sea creatures live and thrive there.

At a rough count, 700 million litres of rain runs off the nation’s roads every year. That’s enough water to fill almost 300 Olympic-sized pools.

Iwi has joined forces with councils and NIWA to restore an estuarine ecosystem to its former health.

NIWA is working alongside Māori to develop gateways to science and technology partnerships that are helping grow the Māori economy.

A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.

Warm nor’westers, or foehn winds, are forecast for parts of the eastern South Island tomorrow and Wednesday, before spreading to the east of the North Island from Wednesday into Thursday.

This week's update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.

A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.

A tape measure and a drill will be pretty much all the tools a NIWA scientist needs when he heads to Antarctica next week.

When you’ve spent a long time viewing something a particular way, it’s hard to recognise when it changes.