Temperature Temperatures were above average (0.51-1.20°C above average) or well above average (>1.20°C above average) in the entire North Island, Marlborough, Tasman, and Canterbury. Fiordland, parts ...

The newly described Australasian Narrow-nosed Spookfish, Harriotta avia. The Australasian Narrow-nosed Spookfish was described by NIWA Fisheries Scientist Dr Brit Finucci. It was previously thought to ...

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 ...

Stories of tremendous forest fires, huge storm events, and suffocating heatwaves have dominated headlines over the past few years. We instinctively feel that our weather is getting wilder. Are we ...

The website Ian Wishart has based his opinions on is not New Zealand’s national climate database. Wishart has conflated the Historic Weather Events website with the New Zealand National Climate ...

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 ...

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 ...

The NIWA and MetService assessment of tropical cyclone (TC) activity for the coming season indicates normal to below normal activity. (Tropical cyclones are categorised in strength from 1 to 5, with 5 ...

A new species has been named after favourite Wellington brewpub Fork and Brewer. NIWA Marine Biologists Rachael Peart (left) and Kareen Schnabel (right) with competition winner, Fork and Brewer's Head ...

Scientists analysing end-of-summer snowline survey photos have estimated that 13 million cubic meters of ice have been lost from just one glacier from 2016 to 2019. NIWA climate scientist Dr Andrew ...

January was Auckland's wettest month since records began, according to meteorologists. The Central Auckland Rainfall series recorded a total of 539 mm of rain at Albert Park, smashing the previous ...

Annual temperatures were above average (+0.51°C to +1.20°C above the annual average) for much Aotearoa New Zealand. Well above average temperatures (>1.20˘C above the annual average) occurred in parts ...