Rachel Stewart: Freed from hope but not hopeless
COMMENT: By clinging to hope people become deluded that things might change.
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Rachel Stewart: Nope, I'm not taking a guilt trip in my V8
COMMENT: Gripe about my dream car and I'll rip the Velcro off your Tevas.
New-wave research: $11.5m mega-project to shed light on NZ's changing oceans
An $11.5m project will take a closer look at NZ's vast and fast-changing marine estate.
Letters: Stand for local council, young people urged
Today's Letters to the Editor.
Rachel Stewart: Get disconnected - you'll find real world again
COMMENT: Time's precious, there are things to see before the lights go out.
Your weather: Showers today but mild winter forecast
It may be wet today but winter is set to be warm and dry.
Local Focus: Council opens doors for climate change workshop
Rotorua students create Climate Change Action Plan. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Rachel Stewart: Rail on track but climate challenges ignored
Comment: When will Government change their emphasis on solving the biggest crisis of all.
Rachel Stewart: Forget Mars - clean our mess up first
COMMENT: I don't want to go to Mars. I want to get Earth fixed.
Mega-strike: Teachers' historic action confirmed for May 29
Historic first all-schools teachers' strike confirmed for May 29.
Rachel Stewart: Earth is heating up and activism will too
COMMENT: The environmental movement, like every other movement, is changing dramatically.
Rachel Stewart: Outlook grim despite the allure of denial
COMMENT: Species extinction and extreme weather are only going to get worse.
European investors eye billion trees project
The billion trees project has attracted the eye of some deep-pocketed players.
Local Focus: Rotorua students protest despite the rain
"We're doing this for ourselves". Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Students march over climate change: 'We need adults to listen - this is our future'
Student says although she can't participate in elections, being at protest "was her vote".
Summer's over: Big wet on its way
A rainy end to month is set to bring much-needed relief to many parched regions.
Hosking: Greenwashing cycle lanes doesn't make them any busier
COMMENT: Cycleways are peddled by zealots who are driven by ideology.
What these creatures are telling us about climate change
As the planet warms, we can turn to these species as climate change's coal mine canaries.
Rachel Stewart: Fry me a river, climate denialists
COMMENT: There's no ignoring what's happening with the weather all over the world.
Explained: what the heatwave is doing to your body
How is your body coping with this heat? Science reporter Jamie Morton gives some insight.
Māori burial sites in peril due to climate change
Answers needed as climate change, storm events threaten to wash away remains.
Rachel Stewart: I'm back and I'm not staying quiet
COMMENT: I am rebranding as the only columnist any rational person will ever want.
'Catastrophic' impacts for marine life as sea temperatures rise
'As the ocean continues to warm the ecological changes could be catastrophic.'
Scorcher! 2018 was NZ's 'hottest year' on record
NZ just saw its warmest year in one and a half centuries of records, scientist says.
Rachel Stewart: 'Trump of tropics' latest psycho in club
COMMENT: Rise of Brazil's Bolsonaro next step in far-right's troubling march.
Tommy Wilson: Truth still inconvenient, and clock is ticking
COMMENT: It's the mana of our leaders who can turn global warming around Tommy Wilson says
Rachel Stewart: Climate - Don't say I didn't warn you
COMMENT: It needs WWIII to turn this overloaded, burning, sinking global ship around.
More weather-related EQC claims closer to the coast
Study finds clear trends among $300m of weather-related claims paid out by EQC since 2000.
NZ's climate faces wilder, wetter, warmer, future
A top panel has laid out starting points for NZ to prepare for a warmer, wilder future.
Greenest Budget ever, says Greens leader Shaw
What's touted as the "the greenest Budget ever" puts over $600m toward environment areas.
Major report: What we've done to NZ's landscape
NZ now losing nearly 200m tonnes of soil each year, with consequences for our environment.
Our storm explained: A wild beast with a sting in the tail
Yesterday's storm was a strange stew packing a dying marine heatwave and side-swipe low.
What you need to know about NZ's tornadoes
On the rare occasion they hit New Zealand towns, tornadoes are dramatic events.
Our hottest summer: what caused it?
A "trifecta" of big drivers combined to make this summer what will be NZ's hottest ever.