Prince Charles has linked the flooding in England's Somerset Levels with climate change.

Tony Abbott's administration has been accused of being the most conservation-hostile in living memory.

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.

Isn't global warming melting the ice and flooding the coast? Al Gore certainly says so. And yet here were climate scientists imperilled in sea ice.

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.

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.

An old rift between rich and poor has reopened in UN climate talks as developing countries look for ways to make developed countries accept responsibility for global warming - and pay for it.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged governments to put forth more ambitious plans to cut carbon emissions, saying "current pledges are simply inadequate".

Russel Norman was heckled in Parliament this week when he used the opportunity to express NZ's sympathy for the Philippines to deliver a harangue on the perils of climate change.

Misery united Parliament yesterday - until politics intervened, writes Audrey Young on Greens co-leader Russel Norman's climate change speech.

A curious feature of the climate change debate is that if I know your politics I can predict your views on global warming. This makes no sense.

Much of northern New Zealand, including Auckland, and parts of the South Island would be almost wiped out by rising sea levels if all the world's ice melted.

Every day, millions of tons of inadequately treated sewage, industrial and agricultural waste enters the world's waterways, writes Sam Judd.

A recent discovery that agricultural practices help form clouds could change the way we see New Zealand's environmental performance.