Climate

Reduced emissions during lockdown will not produce lasting benefits without further action, a leading climate change policy expert says.

Wellington's carbon emissions are forecast to drop a quarter over the next decade - but the capital's still well short of meeting its plan of being carbon neutral by 2050.

Farmers are concerned about receiving fair treatment during a multimillion-dollar project to clean up a Marlborough catchment.

Until now, only one study has directly linked human activity to the demise of the glaciers. This new research shows yearly changes going back to '77.

The first national climate change risk assessment provides a specific snapshot of the risk, and now New Zealand must respond, Climate Change Minister James Shaw says. Video

Take some old weather records. Add citizen scientists. Mix in machine learning. Result = something that might help predict future weather patterns.

A 23-year-old Melbourne law student is suing the Australian Government for failing to disclose the risk climate change poses to Australians' super and other safe investments.

New Zealand should brace for more droughts followed by heavy rain, like what has been seen in the Far North, Professor James Renwick from Victoria University says. Audio

After decades spent reporting on Israel-Palestine conflict, Tuma Hazou, the former BBC and ABC journalist has lived in Auckland since the late 1990s. This month, Tuma, 85, finally published his…

The chance of breaching one of the Paris accord goals in the next five years has doubled, a study says.

Climate change could lead to a 24 percent reduction in fish species and more storms, which could damage aquaculture farms and sink fishing boats.

Alison Ballance eavesdrops on the songs of the world's southern-most mammal, the Weddell seal, and finds out about sea ice.