'Nothing but bad news': Major climate report's stark outlook
Biggest climate report in nine years warns window to avert worst impacts is closing fast.
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How to stop 90pc of carbon emissions by 2035: New report
Onerous state interventions not the solution to dangerous climate change.
Super-size your urban ute: Why the farmers are right to point the finger
Aggressive marketing has driven the rise of the double-cab ute on NZ streets.
NZ importing record amount of coal
Coal now fuels more than 10 per cent of the country's electricity as hydro power drops.
UP to 1200 Northland households to join composting scheme thanks to $400k Government grant
Scheme aims to reduce the 300,000 tonnes of food Kiwi households throw away every year
Jack Tame: Protesting farmers are hypocrites - but so am I
OPINION: All of us have to make sacrifices if we are to stop plundering the world.
Opinion: Is the PM listening to the Howl from the regions?
OPINION: The Great Communicator needs to work on her communication.
Landowners urged to reverse poor wetlands record
Wetlands have value as natural areas of carbon storage, says biodiversity advisor.
Govt advised against feebate exemptions for work utes
Their rising popularity seen as 'incompatible' with decarbonising the transport sector.
Taxman comes for utes, as Minister looks at clampdown
The Government is looking at whether it should clamp down on ute drivers shirking tax.
Niwa confirms NZ's warmest June, with more mild days ahead
NZ's warmest start to winter fuelled by northeasterlies, moist lows and climate change.
14,000 football fields: study shows scale of NZ's recent wetland loss
Despite protections, loss of NZ's "natural kidneys" has continued at pace in recent years.
Brian Fallow: Parochial politics a threat to better management of our water
Government's planned reforms could make up for decades of under-investment.
Polar blast: The science behind NZ's deep freeze
A polar blast has briefly chilled what's been NZ's warmest start to winter. What drove it?
Cars, utes reign in North's climate crisis tug of war
Public transport can't replace the pleasure, convenience of private motoring in Northland
Climate change: Pests costing NZ millions of tonnes of carbon storage
Damage to West Coast forest alone cost equivalent of 2018's domestic air travel emissions.
Climate change report: End petrol car imports by 2032
New report says petrol car imports would need to be wound down by 2032.
Opinion: Rod Carr's astonishingly big omission
OPINION: Environmental economics about internalising externalities the most efficient way.
Budget 2021: Shaw responds to 'loose change' charges over climate spend
Govt accused of spending 'loose change' on climate but minister says Budget packs $2.3b.
Budget 2021: $344m for Antarctica's Scott Base redevelopment
$300m has been announced to accelerate investment in low-carbon technology.
Climate change: Sheep and beef profits could be halved by 2100
A new analysis has gauged how rising emissions could hit our farming sector this century.
Plague warning: Warm March raises odds of beech seeding and pest explosion
Warm summer could mean yet another pest-fuelling beech mast in parts of NZ, DOC says.
Govt grants $8m for 1000 water tanks for Far North
Iwi-led scheme will see tanks allocated to neediest families, facilities in Te Hiku area.
Brian Fallow: Climate change plan - emissions impossible for farmers?
Agriculture groups say Climate Change Commission too optimistic on potential for cuts.
Urban sprawl: How NZ's best vege-growing land is dramatically disappearing
Urban sprawl is eating NZ's best land for crops, hurting our ability to feed ourselves.
Paradise under pressure: report reveals toll of intensive dairying, urban sprawl
What has decades of intensive dairying and urban sprawl meant for NZ's best land?
Covering Climate Now: How do we shrink agriculture's climate footprint?
The Climate Change Commission has proposed a cut to livestock numbers. Is it inevitable?
Saving the planet: Should you eat less red meat to combat climate change?
If all of us moved to climate-friendly diets, what difference would it make to emissions?
Opinion: Fairly sharing the burden is necessary for climate success
OPINION: The ETS in its present form cannot achieve zero net emissions.
Fossil-fuel move: Coal boilers phased out by 2037
Phase-out starts with ban on new low to medium temperature coal boilers from 2022.
NZ imported more coal last year than in any year since 2006
The Govt is being challenged to spend more money on renewable energy
Brian Fallow: Cutting farm emissions - without cutting farm output
Fewer animals can produce same amount of product, says Climate Change Commission's plan.
Children barred from school bus by 1904 law
Parents are driving kids to school because of a 1904 law barring them from school buses.
Liam Dann: RMA rewrite looks like a special kind of hell
Everyone cheered the RMA's demise but will new laws be at the mercy of political conflict?