Climate Change

Warming weather and the effect that changes to Antarctica's ice cover will have on the planet are to form part of major new research supported by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Institute. Audio

An idea to reverse global warming is being aired, but it would mean the sky changing colour. Audio

An international team of scientists has issued a warning that we have now crossed four out of nine planetary boundaries. Audio

Australia's national science agency is predicting global warming will cause Australia to heat up at a rate faster than the global average. Audio

Scientists say it could take hundreds of years to reverse damage to the Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers brought on by climate change. Audio

The founder of Lanza tech, Sean Simpson on the company's huge gains in creating a low carbon aviation fuel using waste from the steel industry. This year the company has moved its headquarters from… Audio

Climate talks in Lima, the formal split of Internet Mana, the milk price Audio

United Nations member countries, including New Zealand, have reached what appears to be an uneasy truce on tackling climate change. Audio

United Nations members meeting in Peru have reached what's being regarded as an underwhelming agreement on how countries should tackle climate change. Audio

Naomi Klein, author of the international bestsellers, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo, talks to Wallace Chapman about her latest book, This Changes Everything.  She’s calling for politics to be… Audio

The prospect of New Zealand taxpayers being lumbered with a 50 billion dollar climate change bill has led to more accusations that the Government is dragging its heels. Audio

A climate change researcher says achieving post-2020 emission targets could cost New Zealand up to $53 billion. Audio

Green activists literally buried their heads in the sand in a day of action on climate change. The Coal Action Network organised the stunt at 11 beaches to coincide with the departure of the Climate… Audio

A report is warning that Dengue Fever, giardia and salmonella will increase markedly in New Zealand if health officials don't start taking climate change seriously. Audio

Curator Daniel Michael Satele wants us all to think more about water. So he's put together an exhibition of works about water and called it The Drowned World. Named for novelist JG Ballard's dystopian… Audio

Brand new manned submersibles are enabling explorations of the Queensland reef systems to previously impossible depths (of 300 metres), but how this is contributing to the study of sensory… Audio

Rod Oram reports in from the G20 meeting in Australia. Audio

Simon Lamb is a Wellington scientist whose award-winning documentary about climate change is to be screened on American public television. The Associate Professor of Geophysics at Victoria University… Audio

As the UN's climate change panel warns governments to rapidly transition to renewables to avoid climate disaster - why are some governments still continuing to put barriers in the way of clean energy… Audio