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 ...

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 ...

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 La Niña Watch remains in effect with a 60-70% chance that an event officially develops by December. La Niña-like patterns will favour more high pressure south of New Zealand over the next three ...

The NIWA Invertebrate Collection (NIC) holds specimens from almost all invertebrate phyla. This is a result of over half a century of marine taxonomic and biodiversity research in the New Zealand ...