A University of Auckland researcher has been granted $345,000 over three years from the Marsden Fund to investigate the potential of climate change to threaten kauri, many of which are already under attack from kauri dieback disease.

The Government is set to put the emissions trading scheme into an induced coma - not dead, but not able to accomplish much, writes Brian Fallow.

A two-and-a-half year expedition by the ship on which Sir Peter Blake was murdered continues his work under the oceans.

A scathing judgment backing Niwa represents a damning of climate sceptics' crusade.

A judge has thrown out a legal challenge by climate change sceptics, which accused Government scientists of manipulating data.

NZ's now extinct giant moa survived for 40,000 years of significant climate change without suffering large population slumps, new study shows.

Sustainability may be the biggest test for the Golden State, reports Peter Huck.

Reaction to the Government's announcement yesterday to postpone key stages of the emissions trading scheme.