Relocation is a dirty word at the Pacific Islands Forum.

An hour before the Pacific Islands Forum's opening feast, hundreds of shark fins were hauled out for display.

New Zealand has committed $5 million to low-lying countries that are vulnerable to water shortages.

A tiny Pacific island state that is being submerged by rising oceans will tell New Zealand that it is not disposable.

The Pacific region is on the front line of climate change. Its low-lying islands risk being swamped by rising sea levels and their inhabitants forced to emigrate.

For a ship on a mission of worldwide importance, the Yong Sheng is a distinctly unimpressive sight.

The Government has adopted a soft unilateral target for reducing carbon emissions by 2020, but Climate Change Minister Tim Groser said a future Government might lift it, should progress towards an international agreement post-2020 warrant it.

More work is needed to better understand how climate change will affect New Zealand at a regional level, a new report says.

The Government has proposed cutting $10 million in funding for climate change research in a move described as disheartening for New Zealand's highly capable climate scientists.

Herein lies the opportunity for NZ, writes Frank Duffield. Its resource base is largely underexplored, and world-scale natural gas discoveries are quite possible.

They love wars, those Republicans. Wars on Freedom. Wars on Jobs. Wars on Wars: everything's a war.

Climate change could be putting the planet on a path to an era not seen for 3 million years, a New Zealand scientist has warned.

Hurricanes, referred to as "acts of God" by insurers and seen by others as harbingers of the effects of climate change, are becoming more common, research indicates.

Leading scientists, farmers, politicians, foresters and business people will descend on Parliament today to take part in a climate change conference.

The priorities are clearly badly wrong, writes Bryan Walker. NZ needs to turn its back on a prosperity resulting in severe threats to the human future and build an economy which flourishes on green energy sources.

Several aspects of Jim Salinger's op-ed "Climate hurtling towards a hothouse Earth" (Herald 24/5/13) are quite misleading.

New research from Oxford University shows the rate of global warming has been lower over the past decade than it was previously.

Global warming was to blame for super storms that killed hundreds of people last year, and record levels of ice thaw in the Arctic, the United Nations has warned.

After reading this hopefully you'll be convinced the production and use of disposable coffee cups is an irresponsible act that is harming our environment, writes James Murray.

Simon Lamb quizzed 40 of the world's leading climate scientists to bring their work to film.