Climate

Pacific countries and climate activists are calling for an overhaul of how the world tackles climate change, after this month's round of UN negotiations ended in failure.

In August we brought you the story of a relocatable 'climate safe' house being built in a flood-hit South Island township. Here's how it's getting on.

The Pacific Islands Forum has expressed utter disappointment at this month's global climate negotiations in Spain.

Aotearoa-based indigenous youth collective Te Ara Whatu went to the COP25 climate talks. It's time for indigenous leadership on climate issues, a member says.

A state of emergency has been declared in New South Wales in Australia as a record-breaking heatwave exacerbates the state's bushfire crisis.

Yesterday was Australia's hottest day on record, according to preliminary data from the Bureau of Meteorology.

Ongoing concerns around changes to the rural sector to meet climate targets will be taken into account in the Climate Change Commission's advice to government, its head says. Audio

Food, festivity ... and arguments with Uncle Trevor the climate change denier. Here's how to argue back this Christmas.

Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, 16, has been named Time magazine's Person of the Year for 2019.

Auckland Council's first budget plan since declaring a climate emergency does not indicate any major spending increase on the area, but proposes to cut its own emissions by 20 percent.

A long-term research programme has been commissioned to check if carbon levels in New Zealand soils are increasing or decreasing.

A warmer world means oceans are able to hold less dissolved oxygen, which is bad news for many fish.