Climate

Marine and ice specialists from top research outfits gathered at an emergency summit in Wellington on Tuesday to discuss record low sea ice in Antarctica this year, which they described as "deeply…

With NZ on track to fall 114 million tonnes short of the 2030 emissions reduction target, and billions of dollars likely needed to pay for it, candidates debated their parties' climate policies. Audio

The rapid retreat of Franz Josef Glacier and the subsequent "huge" volume of riverbed material crawling down the Waiho Valley is a growing problem for the area.

New Zealand First leader Winston Peters has been spreading misleading climate information at public meetings.

Australia's southeast on Sunday sweltered in a heat wave that raised the risk of bushfires and led authorities to issue fire bans for large swathes of New South Wales state.

Vegetable growers are gearing up for months of warmer, drier weather.

Tighter standards to combat forestry slash by targeting new plantings are poised to get a final sign-off.

Ngāi Tahu is starting to see insurance retreat affect its marae and papakāinga homes.

The ACT Party has raised the possibility it would renege on New Zealand's international climate pledge under the Paris Agreement.

The government has delayed its strategy to help struggling households manage the costs of shifting to a low carbon economy. A critic says there's "no justification" for doing so.

ACT Party leader David Seymour says his party will stop what he says is wasteful climate change spending.

Car makers say they are going green. But they still spend much more advertising their biggest gas guzzlers than their smaller, less profitable EVs.

Recycling is not the beginning nor end when it comes to climate change. In fact, it comes way down the list of things you can personally do to help save the planet. 

While attention is focused on National's $500 million-a-year hole, another has opened up in plain sight - and it's Labour's problem, too.