A weekly update describing soil moisture patterns across the country to show where dry to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent. Regions experiencing significant soil moisture deficits ...

Earth Sciences New Zealand has been awarded $57,063,697 from the 2025 Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment Endeavour Fund across five critical research programmes encompassing hazard ...

The tables below show the probabilities (or percent chances) for each of three categories: above average, near average, and below average. In the absence of any forecast guidance there would be an ...

Methane is a greenhouse gas, so scientists are investigating how these sources of methane may be connected to our warming climate. Earth Sciences New Zealand marine scientist Dr Sarah Seabrook says ...

New Zealand’s ocean temperatures are rising and marine heatwaves - periods of unusually warm ocean temperatures which persist for five or more days - are becoming more frequent and severe, with ...

Over 220,000 m 3 of sediment was eroded from just 9.1km of Ūawa/Hikuwai riverbanks in Gisborne (Tairāwhiti). This corresponds to 24 m 3 of sediment for each metre of river channel, or around 1,500 ...

ENSO-neutral (El Niño – Southern Oscillation) conditions remain present in the tropical Pacific. In June 2025, atmospheric patterns in the Pacific continued to be intermittently consistent with weak ...

Northland’s bold initiative to revive a treasured taonga gains international recognition for its indigenous-led, science-backed approach to restoring water quality and biodiversity An ambitious plan ...

David Smol, Board Chair for the New Zealand Earth Sciences Institute has announced the appointment of John Morgan as the Transition Chief Executive. This appointment is effective from 1 July 2025 and ...

New Zealand could face twice as many of the most extreme atmospheric rivers by the end of the century, according to new research. Not only could the narrow bands of concentrated water vapour increase, ...

The risk of undersea landslides and their potential to cause tsunamis along New Zealand’s east coast is being investigated by scientists aboard the German research vessel RV Sonne as part of a ...

In February 2025, oceanic and atmospheric conditions remained broadly consistent with a weak La Niña. The ocean and the atmosphere in the tropical Pacific are not strongly nor consistently coupled, ...