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The UN climate conference COP27 will soon be wrapping up after two weeks of talks and there's a possibility there may be no consensus reached.

One focus has been compensating developing countries… Audio

National Party climate change spokesperson Scott Simpson says his attendance at COP27 in Egypt will help shape the party's environmental policies for next year's election. Simpson is part of a New… Audio

Low-lying island states know first-hand the effects of climate change, and the consequences of wooly language in agreed climate texts. 

At COP27, developing countries managed to get discussions about… Audio

New Zealand is providing climate funding to some of the developing countries facing damage from climate change. 

$20m has been ringfenced, with Aotearoa joining a small group of countries committing… Audio

Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid is the alluring title of the latest exhibition by sculptor Louise McRae. She's been described as an alchemist of materials for the way she manipulates everything… Audio, Gallery

A new government report confirms poorer, coastal and low-lying riverside communities will not be able to pay to protect themselves from the effects of climate change. 

It identifies 44 lower-income… Audio

Why isn’t New Zealand part of Australia? | The Aotearoa History Show | RNZ

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New Zealanders like to think we have a “Number 8 Wire Mentality” - a rough and ready enthusiasm for fixing and building stuff with limited resources.  Video, Audio

From a standing start of little tank engines chugging along wooden rails, New Zealand built a vast rail network, made up of enough steel rail to wrap halfway around the moon. Video, Audio

The 1950s saw an explosion of youth culture. “Bodgies and widgies' ' tearing round on motorbikes & hanging out in milk bars scandalised many Kiwi adults. Was “the teenager” invented in the 1950s? And… Video, Audio

The first 500 years of Māori settlement in Aotearoa saw significant, dynamic changes to how people lived; changes that challenge the idea of Māori culture as something carved in stone. Video, Audio

The news is filled with doom and gloom about climate change - is there any reason to be optimistic? Audio

Climate scientists warned the ski industry two decades that climate change could threaten the viability of some skifields.

Ruapehu Alpine Lifts is in voluntary administration after a string of poor… Audio

An international business expert is warning the risk of a trade war over climate change is very real.

A climate and business conference in Auckland heard some countries are itching to slap tariffs on… Audio

Terry Isson is the scientist speacilising in geochemistry and geobiology at the University of Waikato. He talks to Charlotte about the potential of dunite in the fight against climate change. Audio

It's easy to imagine that a new collection of Climate Change poetry from around the Pacific could be overwhelmingly a picture of doom and gloom. But what the four Kiwi editors of No Other Place to… Audio

Creatures trying to survive as the world around them burns express their fears, their anger and their hopes in Naming the Beasts, the visceral new poetry collection by Auckland writer, Elizabeth… Audio

Climate change: what's causing it, what are the consequences and what can we do to fight it? Audio

With climate change-induced disasters becoming more frequent around the world, how do insurers weigh up the financial risks? Audio