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Approved by the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, New Zealand was made sovereign over 1.7 million square kilometres of seafloor

A NIWA scientist with an international reputation as an outstanding leader in marine ecological field experiments was last night awarded the prestigious New Zealand Marine Sciences Society (NZMSS) Award.

A series of low pressure systems will trek across the Tasman from tonight into the weekend, resulting in locally heavy rain and the potential for flooding and slips for the east of the North Island.

At the edge of the advancing winter sea ice in the Ross Sea, a first-ever winter fisheries survey has uncovered new secrets of the Antarctic toothfish.

Marine scientists are proving they know that it takes good bait to catch a big audience.

The discovery of diaries of an English missionary living in Northland in the 1800s reveals him as New Zealand’s first meteorologist.

The first six months of 2016 are set to be the warmest ever start to the year, according to NIWA’s long-term seven-station temperature series.

NIWA Meteorologist Ben Noll takes a north-to-south look at the record-breaking warm temperatures experienced by Kiwis during the winter solstice.

An important scientific milestone was reached on a windswept point at the bottom of the North Island this week.

The sounds made by whales and dolphins as they pass through New Zealand’s Cook Strait are to be recorded for the first time through a research project being undertaken by a NIWA scientist.

Anyone can participate, and all you need is access to the sea, a smartphone or a camera and computer.

Taxonomy is one of New Zealand’s most important sciences but its impact is often not widely known nor understood.