The first six months of 2016 are the warmest start to a year on record in NZ. Professor Corey Bradshaw pens an open letter to his daughter to apologise.

The record warm start to the year will be the new normal within the next few generations, scientists say.

Scientists have confirmed that atmospheric carbon dioxide levels have hit record levels in Antarctica.

The last time the amount of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere was at a level of 400 parts per million (ppm), sea levels were at least 10 metres higher than they are today.

Paula Bennett says removing a carbon credit subsidy for businesses could cost households between $30 and $40 a year.

Emissions Trading Scheme is to be scrapped.

Suicide among Indian farmers is on the rise because of extreme environmental conditions.

Most Alaskans and Canadians have a bear story - tales of fearsome grizzlies, even polar bears. But a mix of the two?

COMMENT: The sooner we take action, the lower the cost will be and the less damage we will pass on to future generations.

Warmer winds carry fresh challenges to the major industries of regional New Zealand.

As recently as two years ago, there were five islands in the Pacific Ocean. Now they're nowhere to be seen. Six more are facing the same fate.

The Year 2 pupils arrived at school to a message thanking them for doing a great job to spread awareness about climate change from the Prime Minister.

COMMENT: I learned all our calculations for dealing with climate change could be swept aside by a non-linear event. This could be it.

Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett has greeted the Royal Society's report on New Zealand's response as a "useful resource as we transition to a low-emissions economy".

New Zealand can and must do more to fight climate change on the home front, say authors of a high-level report out today.

COMMENT: The aftermath of signing the Paris Agreement on climate change is a good time to take stock of where we are at on this important issue.

Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett has signed an historic global climate change agreement on behalf of NZ.

COMMENT: From rising sea levels to flooded rivers, from drought to wildfire - scientists list the impacts of climate change.

With a historic global climate agreement about to be signed in New York, a new report has laid bare how New Zealand will be affected by climate change.

New Zealand is being accused of cheating to fulfil its international climate change obligations.

Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett will head to New York next week to sign New Zealand up to a historic climate agreement.

Big industrial emitters of greenhouse gases will lose their right under the emissions trading scheme to offset only half of their emissions, Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett told an international energy conference in Wellington.

What if we could fight climate change by capturing emissions and locking them away? It sounds good, but the obstacles are huge, reports Chris Mooney.

As the climate heats up, the forecast is also calling for more rain. Think downpours. Cats and dogs. Or just "extreme rain", as the scientists call it.

Many suspect the design of ETS, with no price floor and emissions cap, was never intended to make a difference to our climate changing emissions.

New research charges that humans are driving accelerating sea level rise.

While climate change presents one of the greatest challenges of our time, it's also one of the biggest economic opportunities.

A sense of 'alarm and panic' is being felt at the Pacific Climate Change Conference as rising sea levels threaten small nations.