Explained: What rising seas mean for insurance and house prices
If you live in a one-in-100-year flood zone, you'll likely lose insurance, expert warns.
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Coastal homes 'uninsurable' with tiny sea-level rise
Those living in populated coastal areas could lose their insurance cover in a few years
Chlöe Swarbrick: Don't look up - or out to sea - in NZ
Climate change is here - whether or not our path ends in catastrophe is up to all of us.
Rising tides: what's in store for NZ's three biggest cities?
By 2040, once-a-century floods could be happening annually in NZ's two biggest cities.
Cyber attack hits website showing projected sea level rise
A new NZ SeaRise website has been hit by a cyber attack.
Suspicious activity may have hit new online sea level tool
New online sea level rise tool hit with heavy traffic - and possibly a targeted attack.
'Less time to act than we thought': Sinking land, rising oceans - how our coast will be transformed
Scientists say councils should be preparing for higher seas right now.
Oceans could experience mass extinction by 2300 - new study
New York Times: Research highlights a choice about the fate of ocean life.
Prince Charles backs radical plan to put masks on cows
Methane-catching masks on trial for British cows to reduce their carbon 'hoofprint'.
How much and who pays, part of major climate adaptation process
It will tackle the thorny issue of managed retreat, when areas become inhabitable.
Simon Wilson: Why electric vehicles will not save the planet
EVs will be the future of cars but they can't be the future of cities.
Earth Day: How Fiji's Surfer Laws could save their islands
Fiji is the only place you can be fined $1000 for sharking a wave.
Why Christopher Luxon has 'no time' for halving NZ's dairy herd
Luxon says Kiwi farmers are already "the most carbon-efficient in the world".
Special report: The tragic trend making ghosts of our glaciers
Our snowlines are rising at 'a screaming pace'. Just what does Aotearoa stand to lose?
What's next for oil and gas ban?
The Government is set to work on a strategy for decarbonising energy in New Zealand.
Our Ocean Conference held in the Pacific, indigenous methods to tackle climate change
Minister for Pacific Peoples Aupito William Sio represents NZ at the climate-change event.
Why some work jargon is a lot worse than others
Financial Times: Baffling climate change words are actively harmful.
Lockdown sees emissions drop, big cuts still needed - report
The first emissions reduction plan will be released next month.
The Front Page: Why Govt's fuel bailout was a mistake never to be repeated
Simon Wilson on the impact of climate change and why we need to act now.
Eric Crampton: Council carbon counsel
OPINION: Councils can only do so much in dealing with carbon emissions.
Carbon confessional: NZ's most (and least) eco-conscious air routes revealed
23% of passengers to Wellington offset their emissions compared to 3% in Dunedin.
In the ocean, it's snowing microplastics
New York Times: Tiny bits of plastic could alter the ocean's role.
Greens slate fuel subsidy over climate change impacts
It comes as a major IPCC report calls for urgent action including ending fuel subsidies.
UN warns Earth 'firmly on track toward an unliveable world'
Earth's climate to shoot up to unbearable temperatures unless drastic action is taken.
UN report: Why the world can still halve emissions by 2030
The world can keep warming within symbolic thresholds, UN finds - but it must act quickly.
'Litany of broken promises': UN climate report shows world hurtling towards danger zone
Efforts to cut emissions require an end to fossil fuels and increase in renewable energy.
'The Climate Book': Activist aims to drive change with new book
Greta Thunberg has compiled a handbook for tackling the world's environmental crises.
'Greenwashing': Investment funds overstating commitment to environment
Otago research finds managers not 'walking the talk', clients could be choosing 'lemons'.
Hastings fared better than some areas in last week's floods
Rainfall in Hastings varied across the district, with about 100mm falling in the city.
'Skeletal': Alarming damage to NZ glaciers after unusually hot summer
The extreme summer heat took a toll on the South Islands glaciers.
Without Russia, science going solo on world's woes
Russian and Western scientists have become dependent on each other's expertise.
'Can't cope': Australia's Great Barrier Reef suffers sixth mass bleaching event
New York Times: This year offers a disturbing first: mass bleaching in a year of La Niña.
Energy independence within New Zealand's grasp - Genesis CEO
NZers are less optimistic about reaching the goal of being carbon neutral by 2050.
Waikato takes action against climate change
Impact Hub Waikato is hosting an event to develop solutions to local climate challenges.