Climate

The government is relying too heavily on planting pine trees, which even its own advisers oppose, a lawyer says. Audio

Some farming groups are opposed, but the PM's chief science adviser says farmers need to see the products work.

It may seem that as an ordinary person, cutting emissions is too big a job. But homeowners have a large part to play.

I nvestors will not be drawn to new gas field developments without broad political consensus, says one of the country's few oil and gas companies.

Electricity bills may deliver less of a hammering this winter if NIWA's outlook for the next few months comes to fruition.

Pacific Islands are building seawalls to defend themselves against rising sea levels. But climate adaptation researchers say seawalls have a clear downside.

The Waikato Regional Council claims all roads in the district are threatened and communities likely to be isolated.

Shifting seasons have widespread repercussions that may be greater than previously thought.

Strong winds in Wellington affected flights into the capital.

Changes could ripple through ecosystems further afield with the potential to affect key fisheries in the Southern Ocean, Jacqui Stuart and Natalie Robinson write.

Climate fix, or fossil fuel lifeline - the truth behind the country's first carbon capture and storage project