oceans

Expert Reactions | Published: 17 October 201930 October 2019

Our oceans and coasts are feeling the pressure on all fronts as the cumulative effects of climate change, biodiversity loss, and human activities […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 24 January 201711 April 2018

A proposal to ban microbeads from cosmetics is a positive step, but the problem pales in comparison to the harm […]

In the News | Published: 19 April 201603 May 2017

The impacts of climate change are already visible in New Zealand and will get worse unless drastic action is taken […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 03 August 201203 August 2012

Devices installed in squid trawling nets to prevent sea lion bycatch lack evidence that they actually prevent sea lion deaths, […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 22 November 201114 February 2019

An article by Gareth Morgan and Geoff Simmons in the New Zealand Herald highlights the environmental issues surrounding fishing, drawing […]

Reflections on Science | Published: 06 October 2011

Two of NIWA’s principal scientists have launched a “primer” for their proposal to create a New Zealand Climate Change Atlas […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 14 July 201117 August 2011

How can we gauge the impact on weather of global warming above and beyond natural variation in weather patterns?

Expert Reactions | Published: 05 October 201005 October 2010

The first-ever global Census of Marine Life will officially conclude today at a news conference in London, after a decade […]

Expert Q&A | Published: 03 August 201003 August 2010

Representing the most comprehensive and authoritative answer yet to one of humanity’s most ancient questions — “What lives in the […]

Expert Reactions | Published: 29 July 2010

Global stocks of phytoplankton — the foundation of the marine food web, and drivers of the ‘biological pump’ that sequesters […]