Our vessels are world-class environmental monitoring and research platforms with the most stringent health and safety standards. We have more than 40 years of experience working in New Zealand’s ...

New research led by Earth Sciences New Zealand reveals that more than 750,000 New Zealanders live in locations exposed to flooding from one-in-100-year rainfall flooding events. And this number could ...

NIWA’s flagship programmes bring together experts, partners and technologies to tackle key environmental challenges and deliver solutions to help New Zealand build resilience and manage its ...

Riskscape, a collaboration between NIWA and GNS Science, is a software application for analysing natural hazard consequences ...

Te Kūwaha, NIWA’s National Centre for Māori Environmental Research is a dedicated Māori research team, with a vision to work in partnership with others to enable complementary knowledge systems to ...

The graph shows carbon dioxide (CO 2) levels measured at Baring Head, NIWA’s clean air station, near Wellington. This station has been running since 1972 and is home to the longest running continuous ...

Data stored in each record include the location of the sample site, sampling method and the fish species present, with many records also containing information on fish abundance and size, and a ...

The projections came from the latest suite of global climate models – called the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6, or CMIP6. The six models used, which fed into the most recent IPCC ...

Antarctica is the coldest place on earth. It is also the windiest, driest, and highest continent. The South Pole is not the coldest place in Antarctica. The coldest temperature recorded in Antarctica ...

Coastal flooding is a global hazard that also impacts Aotearoa New Zealand. Rising sea level is already causing more frequent flooding along many coasts and will greatly increase the frequency and ...

View annual, seasonal and monthly summaries of temperature, rainfall and sunshine data from across New Zealand. You might also be interested in our 'Seven-station' series temperature data. This ...

Forecasting sea surface temperatures several months in advance is challenging. To give us insights into what might happen around Aotearoa New Zealand in the months to come, NIWA scientists have ...