Global warming is melting sea ice so fast that more than half of Antarctica's population of emperor penguins are set to be wiped out by the end of the century, according to alarming new research saying they should be listed as an endangered species.

This winter was not a good one for farmers in the Fertile Crescent.

Everyone now knows borrowing too much is a bad thing for any household or economy. If borrowing rises faster than income, eventually the bubble of debt will burst.

Odd couple barely does them justice. One is the planet's most celebrated climate warrior, the other a mining baron who plans to export enough coal to turn Asian skies black.

Take a swim with a polar bear family as they traverse the Arctic Ocean in search of sea ice. To learn more about the Arctic Exploration Fund visit: http://www.arcticbearproductions.com Courtesy YouTube/GoPro

Not long after the Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 was declared missing, the world's attention was focused on a remote, poorly known area of the Eastern Indian Ocean as the possible location of the lost aircraft.

Scientists are being told to use art and poetry to win public support in the battle to curb climate change.

If John Key expected to be asked the soft questions when he bowled up for Question Time with school children in Niue yesterday, he was sorely disappointed.

Our promises around climate change policies are just hot air. The minister may not be Stan (he is Tim Groser), but he still needs a plan.

Humanity has pushed the planet to the brink of a dinosaur-scale sixth mass extinction, a new study has warned.

The aviation industry is awake to the threat of climate change even if politicians are not, said Auckland International Airport executive Martin Fryer.

Sea ice, winds and invertebrates will go under the microscope in the next stage of a major science programme turning to Antarctica to answer crucial questions about how the Earth will respond to climate change.

The Antarctic ice sheet is disappearing at twice the speed of when it was last surveyed, losing 159 billion tonnes of ice to the ocean every year.

Climate change is a mega-trend that will affect countries creditworthiness, and New Zealands worse than most, says Standard & Poors.

From my perch in Rome I have observed that some poor residents of Christchurch are being hammered by the fourth bout of flooding in less than two months.

Three doctors and a medical student have been arrested after locking themselves together as part of a NSW coal mine blockade, protesters claim.

Australia may be left without a climate change policy following mining magnate Clive Palmer's decision.

People often ask why NZ should incur any costs curbing its greenhouse gas emissions when we account for less than 0.2% of the global total, writes Brian Fallow.