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.

A crater lake in Central Otago has given a Kiwi scientist a unique insight into how quickly climate change could cause the Antarctic ice sheet to melt.

Pulling agriculture into the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) shouldn't be the only way farming is steered against climate change, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment said today.

The recent cold southerlies aside, 2016 is well on the way to become Earth's hottest year ever, say Nasa scientists.

The $30 billion fund will sell out of some highly exposed investments and work with companies to prepare for the risks that could come with climate change.

As top Kiwi scientists fly south for NZ's 60th research season in Antarctica, Jamie Morton takes a look at some of the fascinating studies planned.

For Labour, it is critical that we have an integrated across government plan to reduce emissions.

We've ratified the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, so what next?

Countries of the world yesterday agreed to a new regime to curb a large source of greenhouse gas emissions - those from international aircraft flights.

New Zealand has ratified the Paris Agreement, becoming one of the countries to do so before the threshold at which the historic agreement will come into force.

Barack Obama told actor DiCaprio and atmospheric scientist "we're really in a race against time" to curb the worst impacts of climate change.

As consultation opens on an oil and gas drilling plan, some city councillors are now questioning if the Government will listen to what they say.

You know Dasher and Dancer, Prancer and Vixen, Comet and Cupid . . . ? Their cousins may all be dead soon.

COMMENT: Ex-Minister suggests new way to tackle emissions.

How climate change will affect cherished species like tuatara and takahe - and countless others around the world - urgently needs to be assessed, scientists say.

COMMENT: The problem is the US constitution and its separation of powers.

It's not all down to oil or land. Most conflicts come down to one thing, and it could be about to spark a battle with China.

Humans have been driving global warming for nearly two centuries, finds a new study showing climate change isn't just a 20th century phenomenon.

In San Bernardino County, 82,000 people were ordered to leave their homes on Thursday as a wildfire "hit with an intensity we hadn't seen before".

It seems a story straight from a Cold War thriller - only the case of Camp Century is 100 per cent fact.

In parts of the world right now, it feels like 60C. Experts fear it won't be long till the scorching heat threatens human survival.

Climate change is set to make it too hot to host the Olympics in the world's biggest cities, according to a university study.

Corporate control of agriculture, new viruses and climate change have been singled out among a long list of big threats to pollinators in a new horizon-scanning study co-authored by a Kiwi scientist.

COMMENT: I have to admit to a bad week. It started Monday. It was cold and I thought: "Huh, where's global warming?"

Calling climate sceptics "deniers" is done with the intention of putting them in the same class as "Holocaust deniers".

COMMENT: There is no greater crime being perpetuated on future generations than that committed by those who deny climate change.