Aman from China's pollution-choked north has become the first person to attempt to sue the Government for failing to protect its citizens from the effects of toxic smog.

The impact of volcanic eruptions on global warming could provide a new explanation for the so-called “pause” used by sceptics to deny climate change, scientists say.

Weapons of mass destruction are hard to find. The American and Australian Governments know a thing or two about that.

The standard climate change predictions said people in the tropics and the sub-tropics would be badly hurt by global warming.

The news broke this week: "Pacific winds 'pause' global warming". The story is that big winds have blown the warming that was predicted into the ocean.

Campaigners are out to hit the fossil fuel industry where it hurts, by making it an unacceptable place to invest. Peter Huck reports

A number of floating ice shelves in Antarctica are at risk of disappearing entirely in the next 200 years, as global warming reduces their snow cover, a new study has found.

Last year was one of the most expensive years ever for storm damage, with $174m of insurance claims lodged for weather-related events.

Hamburg, Germany’s second largest city, is planning to ban all cars from its centre over the next 20 years and put thousands of commuters on bikes.

Residents in South Australia are enduring temperatures of more than 40 degrees this week. The Conversation explains what's behind the extreme heat.

A controversial proposal to cool the planet artificially by injecting tiny reflective particles into the upper atmosphere which block out sunlight would cause droughts and climate chaos.

Experts have delivered a dire warning that rising sea levels will put some suburban areas of coastal Christchurch under water within 100 years.

Last year was New Zealand's second warmest on record and more above-average temperatures are in store this year, says climate scientist Dr Jim Salinger.

New research into cloud processes shows that our climate is more sensitive to carbon dioxide than previously recognised.

Five years ago this month, Gore predicted that the "entire North Polar ice cap will be gone in five years". But five years on, the North and South Poles are still capped in ice.

A year ago, Brian Fallow described the state of NZ's climate policy as a shambles and a disgrace. A year later, there is no reason to eat those words, he says.

The facts around rising sea levels are widely misunderstood or misinterpreted.

"Superstorm" Sandy was incredibly huge - the largest Atlantic hurricane on record with hurricane-force winds more than 1500km across at its widest point.

The story from NZ that received the most international play this week was: NZ rejects climate change refugee. Kooky. But his effort to gain asylum here because of the impact of climate change in Kiribati is more a harbinger than an oddity.

Greens co-leader Russel Norman is facing a challenge for the party leadership from a low-ranking Greens candidate.

A Kiribati man's bid to become the world's first climate change refugee in New Zealand has been rejected for a third time.

A scientific project to collect layers of sediment dating back to the end of the last Ice Age from the bottom of Lake Ohau has been granted more than $750,000 to create the most detailed climate study of South Island weather yet tackled.

Deadlock broken after China and India object to the word `commitments' in standoff with developed nation.