Aucklanders need to prepare for the wide-ranging impacts that climate change will have on their city, a leading scientist says.

Sea levels will rise 30cm around New Zealand by 2050 and threaten coastal properties and infrastructure in low-lying areas, a new report warns.

After many years focused on creative accounting, New Zealand is facing pressure to deliver emission reduction results.

A persistent argument of those wanting to drag their feet over climate change has been that small countries, this one included, should feel no obligation to act until the world's biggest economies do.

G20 nations have backed moves on climate change in the wake of the Brisbane leaders' summit.

Australia looked increasingly isolated yesterday as it resisted pressure to put climate change on the main agenda of this weekend's G20 summit in Brisbane.

New Zealand is “off track” in transitioning to a low-carbon future amid increasing international pressure to slash emissions, according to a Government briefing.

If the country has just voted for three more years of the status quo, one area where that is not nearly good enough is climate policy.

Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio has brought star power to the UN summit on climate change on Tuesday, urging leaders to stop treating global warming as "fiction".

The planet will be drowned in love and good intentions from the United Nations today when leaders from around the world gather for a climate summit that will try to give fresh impetus to global negotiations.

As the world urbanises at break-neck speed, the way we design growing cities will heavily determine the environmental impact of the people who live there.

Tens of thousands of activists walked through Manhattan, New York, warning that climate change is destroying the Earth - in stride with demonstrators around the world who urged policymakers to take quick action.

Which town looks set to keep its crown as New Zealand's sunshine capital? A new climate report shows one place well out in front.

Researchers established that tiny life forms were thriving in a lake beneath 800 metres of pack ice, despite not seening sunlight or fresh air for around a million years.

A strong stance on climate change by New Zealand could inspire and embarrass other nations into following our lead, says a world-renowned climatologist.

Plans to build the world's largest solar power plant have been scrapped after the Australian govt's commitment to clean energy questioned.

Hundreds of people living in the Torres Strait face the prospect of having to leave their homes in the coming decades as rising seas engulf their low-lying islands.

Australia's decision to repeal its levy limiting fossil-fuel pollution makes it the first nation to turn back from a market approach to fighting global warming.

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.