Neutral El Niño – Southern Oscillation (ENSO) conditions remain present in the tropical Pacific. Residual signals indicative of weak La Niña conditions persist, and occasional La Niña-like atmospheric ...

Disclaimer: The forecasts offered in this page draw upon modified Copernicus Climate Change Service Information [2022] (C3S, https://climate.Copernicus.eu). There is inherent uncertainty in ...

Disclaimer: The forecasts offered in this page draw upon modified Copernicus Climate Change Service Information [2022] (C3S, https://climate.Copernicus.eu). There is inherent uncertainty in ...

The clean-up and site restoration of a New Zealand research station in Antarctica has provided valuable lessons on the challenges of contaminated sites, according to a study in the journal Polar ...

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

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 ...

A blob of smoke from the Australian bushfires is continuing to circle the globe almost four months after it formed. Scientists around the world have been tracking the blob since it formed in December ...

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. The ...

We’re only halfway through the year, but new NIWA analysis shows some parts of New Zealand have already recorded more than a year’s worth of rain. It was the wettest first half of the year on record ...

NIWA scientists have seen substantial changes in the ocean to the east of New Zealand, with possible impacts for important fisheries. Since 2006, strong, full-depth ocean warming has occurred south of ...

NIWA's Crispin Middleton is part of the team monitoring the caulerpa infestation. Photo: Irene Middleton, NIWA. NIWA is part of a multi-agency biosecurity response to an invasive seaweed discovered at ...