The New Zealand Government talks about the importance of science but ignores the most critical threat to life on Earth since the advent of nuclear arms, writes Lucy Lawless.

A lobby group has challenged the next government to introduce a climate change act that would galvanise promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Global warming is melting sea ice so fast that more than half of Antarctica's population of emperor penguins are set to be wiped out by the end of the century, according to alarming new research saying they should be listed as an endangered species.

This winter was not a good one for farmers in the Fertile Crescent.

Take a swim with a polar bear family as they traverse the Arctic Ocean in search of sea ice. To learn more about the Arctic Exploration Fund visit: http://www.arcticbearproductions.com Courtesy YouTube/GoPro

Not long after the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 was declared missing, the world's attention was focused on a remote, poorly known area of the Eastern Indian Ocean as the possible location of the lost aircraft.

A hundred times I tried to turn down the Herald guest editorship. But eventually their persistence and my hunger for new challenges won out. And maybe I could do some good?

Scientists are being told to use art and poetry to win public support in the battle to curb climate change.

If John Key expected to be asked the soft questions when he bowled up for Question Time with school children in Niue yesterday, he was sorely disappointed.

Humanity has pushed the planet to the brink of a dinosaur-scale sixth mass extinction, a new study has warned.

The aviation industry is awake to the threat of climate change even if politicians are not, said Auckland International Airport executive Martin Fryer.

Sea ice, winds and invertebrates will go under the microscope in the next stage of a major science programme turning to Antarctica to answer crucial questions about how the Earth will respond to climate change.

American scientists are attempting to breed chickens that can cope with scorching heat as part of a series of government-funded programmes.

The competition for "ultimate selfie" is heating up in the name of climate change. Nasa has compiled more than 36,000 of the photographs to make its Global Selfie with Earth Day.

The Antarctic ice sheet is disappearing at twice the speed of when it was last surveyed, losing 159 billion tonnes of ice to the ocean every year.

Climate change is a mega-trend that will affect countries creditworthiness, and New Zealands worse than most, says Standard & Poors.

From my perch in Rome I have observed that some poor residents of Christchurch are being hammered by the fourth bout of flooding in less than two months.

Three doctors and a medical student have been arrested after locking themselves together as part of a NSW coal mine blockade, protesters claim.