In April 2025, Earth Sciences New Zealand supported the environmental impact assessment of the area surrounding the wreck of the HMSNZ Manawanui off the southern coast of Upolu, Samoa. The Earth ...

Computational Fluid Dynamics for environmental flow modellingNIWA’s flagship programmes bring together experts, partners and technologies to tackle key environmental challenges and deliver solutions ...

Once in a while the weather becomes much more dangerous – what meteorologists call severe weather.

Vanuatu is still recovering from the M7.3 earthquake that shook the region on 17 December 2024. From the moment the earthquake struck, Earth Sciences New Zealand experts have been working side-by-side ...

A New Zealand-led team has completed the fullest investigation to date into January’s eruption of the underwater Tongan volcano. Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai (HT-HH) emitted the biggest atmospheric ...

Microbes - such as those living in wetlands, landfills or the digestive tracts of livestock – are behind unprecedented spikes in methane emissions.

Overview 2020 was Aotearoa New Zealand’s 7th-warmest year on record. The nationwide average temperature for 2020, calculated using stations in NIWA’s seven-station temperature series which began in ...

Overview 2024 was Aotearoa New Zealand’s 10th-warmest year on record. The 2024 nationwide average temperature calculated from NIWA’s seven station series was 13.25˚C, being 0.51˚C above the 1991-2020 ...

A new study from NIWA has mapped outdoor air quality for Invercargill and Alexandra in more detail than ever before. Researchers found that outdoor air in the most polluted locations contained three ...

Scientists have found a new ghost shark that lives exclusively in the deep waters of Australia and New Zealand. The Australasian Narrow-nosed Spookfish was described by NIWA Fisheries Scientist Dr ...

NIWA is pleased with the announcement today by the Science, Innovation and Technology Minister of the Government’s response to a recent review of New Zealand’s weather forecasting system.

New maps from NIWA and the Deep South National Science Challenge show areas across Aotearoa New Zealand that could be inundated by extreme coastal flooding. They show a large storm-tide with the ...