Editorial: Climate summit - time for what can be done and what works
OPINION: Our editorial says talkfests and targets on the climate crisis are not enough.
AdvertisementAdvertise with NZME.
Latest from Climate Change
Over 200 cyclists arrested at Amsterdam airport climate protest
Hundreds of cyclists descended on Amsterdam's largest private airport.
COP27 UN climate summit: Grim backdrop of a world in crisis
Envoys from around the world gather in Egypt to tackle global threats.
The big economic and social questions New Zealand faces
Rebuilding Better: Does NZ's Covid response offer a model for another big challenge?
Climate experts fear rich countries 'missing in action' at COP27
More than 45,000 people, including world leaders, will meet in Egypt from this weekend.
'Toxic' US and China situation endangering climate talks - Shaw
James Shaw said complicated US-China relations are making climate talks difficult.
Mike Hosking: Cop this - no one on global stage cares what we do
OPINION: Climate change meeting No 27 will lead to nothing.
Dozens of communities at 'serious flood risk and unprepared'
Forty-four communities listed as 'totally unprepared' for serious consequences.
Climate change: NZ banks, homeowners exposed to rising flood risk
River and surface flooding may pose bigger risk to mortgage portfolios than that from sea.
Coal baron or climate warrior? The dizzying rise of Asia’s richest man
New York Times: Gautam Adani may help determine if India helps avert climate catastrophe.
What do art-splashing stunts say about climate protests?
OPINION: The pace of action on global warming is too slow for activists.
'Headed for a global catastrophe': UN says climate action efforts ‘highly inadequate’
"We’ll zip past 1.5C, past 2C and - heaven help us - even 2.5 or 3C.”
Focus: Emotional moment PM Ardern visits ‘childhood hero’ Shackleton's Hut
An emotional Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern explores her 'childhood hero' Ernest Shackleton's hut and speaks on the duty of care Aotearoa has to the preservation. Video / Mike Scott
Focus: PM Ardern warns Antarctic Treaty under threat from global contention
PM Jacinda Ardern says that as parts of the world are becoming increasingly contested, Antarctica is part of that too. Video / Mike Scott
When soup and mashed potatoes are thrown, can the Earth win?
New York Times: Debate about climate protest tactics rages.
Focus: PM Jacinda Ardern lands in Antarctica
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern talks about research, environmental protection and conservation in Antarctica. Video / Mike Scott
Focus: Rail protesters climb Wellington motorway gantry
State Highway 1 was closed from Johnsonville to Newlands as Restore Passenger Rail protesters climbed a gantry above the motorway and plan to remain there to deliver their petition to Parliament's Transport and Infrastructure Select Committee. Video / Mark Mitchell
One in 10 Kiwi kids face 'dual burden' of poverty, climate impacts - report
Report estimates two thirds of NZ kids affected by at least one extreme climate each year.
Watch: Climate activists throw mashed potato on Monet painting in Germany
Climate activists throw mashed potato on a Monet painting, before glueing themselves to the floor at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, Germany. Video / Letzte Generation via Twitter
Opinion: The uncomfortable truth about that Van Gogh protest
OPINION: If you called the activists attention seekers, you're not wrong.
Climate protesters make disgusting demand
The protesters glued themselves to the floor of a Volkswagen showroom.
Māori conservationists call for more funding of mātauranga Māori to combat sea rises
A contingent of Māori conservation leaders is headed to COP27 in Egypt next month.
'Embarrassing': Groundswell protest crowd size criticised
Almost 60 convoys were planned around NZ to protest against farm emissions pricing plan.
Damien O’Connor: Emissions pricing scheme should be welcomed
OPINION: Agriculture Minister outlines the case for NZ's high-sustainability credentials.
Explained: The 'summer switch' about to bring warm days to NZ
After a chilly start, the back-half of October marks a slide into summery temperatures.
Big trouble hiding in new Kate photos
A low-key engagement by Will and Kate has exposed a looming disaster for the royal family.
Steven Joyce: Can't see the food for the trees
Govt's bid to trim emissions will hit Kiwi farmers — but won't reduce climate change.
Inside the global effort to keep perfectly good food out of the dump
New York Times: How people around the world are tackling hunger and climate change.
Explainer: What's changed? Why the rural uproar over farm emissions pricing scheme
There are only two areas of major difference but they might well be chasms.
Agri emissions pricing system likely to impact Māori: Govt paper
Māori own 1.51 million hectares of land with agricultural assets of $16 billion.
Govt rejected Shaw's preferred farming emissions plan
The Climate Change Minister feared proposal could be open to political interference.
NZ agri emission charges will tip the scales in favour of trees - analysts
Proposed emissions charges for agriculture will add more incentives to grow trees.
Claire Trevett: Pickle for National as emissions plan reaches farm gates
Will the farms tax end the hopes of political consensus on climate change?
Climate change comes for the freezers, a key tool for survival in Alaska
New York Times: Indigenous Alaskans grappling to keep power running to their freezers.