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.

Niwa meteorologist Ben Noll explains what you need to know about Debbie.

COMMENT: Trumps pro-pollution law change, writes Raybon Kan.

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?

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.

COMMENT: Dutch voters show the hard right might not win Europe's elections this year.

A new smartphone app allows users to check Auckland's air quality at any given time.

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.

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.

COMMENT: Figures released last month by Niwa show that 2016 was the hottest year on record for New Zealand, with record or near-record breaking temperatures for many locations, writes Adelia Hallett.

Our forests and other land areas may be sucking up to 60 per cent more carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere than previously thought and we can likely thank our native trees for much of it.

Mankind is already adapting to the widespread impacts of future climate change - but how did we do it in the past? A Kiwi researcher has helped explain.

Regional climate variability caused an unusual period in which some of NZ's glaciers grew bigger, while glaciers worldwide were shrinking, a new study shows.

COMMENT: Personal battles are waste of energy when tackling climate change requires us all.

Whales, toothfish and the confounding puzzle that is Antarctica's sea ice will be targeted in six bold new Kiwi studies to be carried out on the frozen continent and in the Southern Ocean.

Preparing New Zealand's water stores for a warmer climate is a major focus of new research projects just awarded more than $2 million.