Planting more native forest could be a cash-saver for big-emitting companies, report says.

Well-known Kiwi scientists discuss why they'll be out marching this Saturday.

NZ-US areas of co-operation include climate change, fisheries and humanitarian aid.

Auckland Council has voted to pull funding from gas, oil and coal companies.

Five findings from a new independent stocktake of the state of our lakes and rivers.

The Executive Director of Greenpeace New Zealand puts his body on the line to stop climate change.

New Zealand was a decade behind countries like the UK.

Turbulence strong enough to throw passengers around the cabin could become more common.

A joint effort by Herald and World Vision fundraising campaign sees them make $200,000.

Will he save coal? Will he doom the planet? Does the US care?

Scientists says new study results encouraging when climate research faces fresh threat.

Parliament's next environment watchdog will be a former National MP.

Jennifer Dann puts 12 questions to NIWA air quality scientist Elizabeth Somervell.

Our oceans are bearing the brunt of climate change. How much more heat can they take?

Labour and Greens are releasing a set of economic promises today.

OPINION: Let's improve the quality of our debate on the challenge of climate policy.

NZ's economic growth is "approaching its environmental limits", a once-a-decade environmental report card says.

Slashing pastoral stock numbers by up to 35 per cent has been suggested among ways to push New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions down to zero by 2100.

It would be comical if it wasn't so terrifying, writes Lisa McLaren.

A researcher says it's embarrassing our country hasn't yet made the move.

A new study blames as much as half the decline in Arctic sea ice over recent decades on natural causes.

First impressions are of an idyllic paradise. But it soon becomes obvious that this village is living barely one step ahead of hand to mouth

Leaving home is the only option for many as the atoll faces the same fate as five islands that have already disappeared.

The power-packed storm meteorologists have dubbed the "Tasman Tempest" dumped more rain on Auckland than typically falls for the whole of March.

A sinkhole in New Lynn could be bigger than it looks. So what causes them? We asked an expert.

A Kiwi scientist meeting in Brazil with world climate experts discusses a new report assessing what an extra 1.5C of warming would mean for the planet.

The United States' top environmental official has rejected the established science of climate change outraging the science community.

Gareth Morgan's The Opportunities Party would ban subsidies on fossil fuels, increase the price of carbon and overhaul energy efficiency efforts under a climate change policy launched this evening.

Travel is safer now, so fewer of us are dying in large-scale disasters, but climate change could reverse the trend.

COMMENT: Moral implications seem a bridge too far in decisions on management of key resource, opines Rachel Stewart.