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The Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment has released a report warning that New Zealand needs to better prepare for rising seas on its coastal towns and cities.

Te Papa has released a publication containing information, including pictures, distribution maps for all 1,262 known fish species found in our waters.

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

New Zealand scientists are part of an international team that has documented duelling ocean and atmospheric heat transport during periods of abrupt climate change.

A weekly 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.

There was a common factor in the floods that hit swathes of New Zealand midway through this year – they were all forecastable.

Scientists based at NIWA’s research station in Central Otago are undertaking a new set of experiments to determine how the atmosphere affects the performance of solar panels.

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

At a pristine, isolated lake near Otorohanga in the Waikato, NIWA freshwater biologist Brian Smith recently made an important discovery.

Rob Bell is happiest occupying the high ground. With a 35-year career in researching, modeling and monitoring natural hazards, such as king tides, coastal inundation, storms and tsunami, he knows that elevation from coastal margins is the only true protection from a potentially turbulent future.

The Southern Ocean is our marine backyard. Its boundary laps against the south of the South Island. To find out how the Southern Ocean affects life in New Zealand, we went to NIWA’s Dr Mike Williams, physical oceanographer.