This year is set to become New Zealand's hottest on record, breaking the previous record set in 1998, scientists say.

The Sundance Film Festival will open in January with a new climate-change movie from Al Gore - and the timing, unfortunately, could not be better.

The ice base from which the hole in the ozone layer was first detected is in danger of falling into a huge chasm, it has emerged.

COMMENT: Right now it's an unprecedented 22 degrees hotter than normal in the Arctic, and in just two years the North Pole could be completely gone.

EXCLUSIVE: Hayley Holt has confirmed she will stand for the Green Party at next year's general election.

A few weeks ago, a federal judge in Oregon made headlines when she ruled that a groundbreaking climate lawsuit will proceed to trial.

A prominent NZ scientist explains why we should ignore alarmist claims that climate change will soon kill us all.

COMMENT: I had never, for one second, consciously entertained the idea that human extinction was conceivable in the near term.

New data has revealed a notable drop in the average Kiwi household's greenhouse gas emissions, as production of meat, dairy and electricity becomes more climate-friendly.

Heavyweights lobby Government to set emission targets, create long-term plan and implement policies.

Political people are watching the chaos in Washington at the moment. But some people in the science community are watching the chaos in the Arctic.

The Arctic is superhot, even as a vast area of cold polar air has been displaced over Siberia.

COMMENT: The matter of international climate change - the most important energy-related issue facing us today.

COMMENT: Even before Donald Trump hijacked the Republican Party, he was loudly declaring that the science of climate change, like President Barack Obama, had not been born in the United States.

Officials are urging residents around the Firth of Thames to take photos of King Tides to help them chart the impact of possible sea level rises. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

New Zealand's offer to resettle 150 refugees from Australia remains on the table, the Government says, despite a new offer by the

Secretary of State John Kerry won't criticize Donald Trump's climate policies, but says the next US Govt "dare not avoid" the issue.

The Wellington community took to the water in kayaks and held banners onshore today, to throw an "unwelcoming party" for oil companies

United Nations envoys yesterday gathered in Morocco for a second day of talks on putting the Paris Agreement into action.

Donald Trump has promised that as president he will honour the pledge stitched into his white and red baseball caps: Make America Great Again.

The hottest year on record globally in 2015 could be an average year by 2025 and beyond if carbon emissions continue to rise at the same rate, new research has found.

COMMENT: DiCaprio's documentary has been viewed more than six million times and will raise public consciousness.

The Government has again been accused of cheating to meet its climate-change commitments; this time around forestry accounting rules.

COMMENT: We've promised to cut carbon emissions, but all the options face problems.

The jobs of more than 100,000 New Zealanders are linked to the seas which circle the country.

Marine environment stocktake points to pressures from climate change, pests and pollution - but fails to show full impact of fishing.

Scientists taking a toll of the damage done to the Great Barrier Reef say large parts of formerly pristine coral has died.

US and British science agencies yesterday announced a research mission to study a Antarctic glacier that is already showing accelerating ice loss.

Researchers have created a model to reveal how climate change could combine the same weather patterns that led to a $1.3 billion drought.

For years, world leaders have been arguing over the best way to protect the Southern Ocean from threats like pollution and overfishing.