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

As Donald Trump's presidential victory sinks in, Government and experts are starting to count the potential cost to New Zealand's climate change commitments, its defence ties, and even its core values.

The President Elect Donald Trump bodes well for farms and coal mines, but trade deals will be left in peril.

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.

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.

The aviation industry is supporting a United Nations proposal to limit pollution from international flights.

Rapidly melting Greenland may be shedding its ice even faster than anyone suspected, new research suggests.

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