As climate changes, so does the frequency and magnitude of floods and droughts.

Benefits from planned dam project would flow across the region, say civic leaders.

Budget allocation "scratches the surface" of what's needed for climate target, group says.

Green groups want to see a big boost in DoC's core biodiversity budget this Thursday.

Five findings from a new independent stocktake of the state of our lakes and rivers.

Scientists says new study results encouraging when climate research faces fresh threat.

NZ's economic growth is "approaching its environmental limits", a once-a-decade environmental report card says.

Slashing pastoral stock numbers by up to 35 per cent has been suggested among ways to push New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions down to zero by 2100.

COMMENT: Moral implications seem a bridge too far in decisions on management of key resource, opines Rachel Stewart.

A prominent NZ scientist explains why we should ignore alarmist claims that climate change will soon kill us all.

New data has revealed a notable drop in the average Kiwi household's greenhouse gas emissions, as production of meat, dairy and electricity becomes more climate-friendly.

Heavyweights lobby Government to set emission targets, create long-term plan and implement policies.

The President Elect Donald Trump bodes well for farms and coal mines, but trade deals will be left in peril.

United Nations envoys yesterday gathered in Morocco for a second day of talks on putting the Paris Agreement into action.

A suggestion local and regional councils should deal with the fall-out from climate change, rather than the Government, has been labelled

COMMENT: We've promised to cut carbon emissions, but all the options face problems.

Researchers have created a model to reveal how climate change could combine the same weather patterns that led to a $1.3 billion drought.

Pulling agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) shouldn't be the only way farming is steered against climate change, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment said today.

New Zealand has ratified the Paris Agreement, becoming one of the countries to do so before the threshold at which the historic agreement will come into force.

You know Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid . . . ? Their cousins may all be dead soon.

COMMENT: Ex-Minister suggests new way to tackle emissions.

Federated Farmers president William Rolleston has stepped in as acting president of the World Farmers' Organisation.

Global warming could rapidly threaten grasses including staple foods such as wheat and rice that provide half of all the calories consumed by humans, say scientists.

Corporate control of agriculture, new viruses and climate change have been singled out among a long list of big threats to pollinators in a new horizon-scanning study co-authored by a Kiwi scientist.

A leading climate scientist has welcomed a new 20-year Government "roadmap" that singles out climate change as an environmental research priority for New Zealand.

Warmer winds carry fresh challenges to the major industries of regional New Zealand.

Nearly 200 countries strike deal on how to combat climate change, but it's what the energy companies do next that could make or break the agreement.

This year's El Nino weather pattern is shaping up to be one of the strongest, if not the strongest, on record - bringing with it an elevated risk of drought.

Vo Van Duong's bamboo and coconut leaf house looks much like others deep in Vietnam's Mekong Delta.