A big economic call the Government has to make this year is what emissions target New Zealand will commit to for the 2020s, writes Brian Fallow.

For most of us, it's a tough ask to draw a link between somewhere as warm as Bangladesh and as chilly as Antarctica.

Transport Minister Simon Bridges takes over as head of the International Transport Forum as the organisation tackles ways to boost global trade and tourism at its annual gathering.

There's an Alice-in-Wonderland quality about Royal Dutch Shell's attitude towards the risks involved in its plan to drill for oil in the US Arctic.

The reality is that New Zealand is one of the highest per capita greenhouse gas emitters in the OECD, write Phillip Mills and Barry Coates.

Antarctica's Larsen B ice-shelf is on course to disintegrate completely within the next five years, according to a study by US space agency Nasa.

One of New Zealand's most spectacular tourist destinations could also provide a key to better understanding the large-scale changes in store for the planet.

Climate scientists are warning that a large, ocean-driven El Nino system could bring unwelcome weather extremes this year, making the east coast drier.

Picture postcard fjords like those in the South Island have been found to likely play a significant part in regulation of the planet's climate, according to a newly published study by Kiwi and international researchers.

The Earth is on course to lose up to one in six of all its species, if carbon emissions continue as they currently are.

The Ministry for the Environment has released figures showing that carbon pollution, which New Zealand is adding to, increased 42 per cent globally.

It seems the Government plans to rely heavily on a hoard of cheap, low-quality carbon credits to meet its current climate change target.

There will be a need to uproot communities and retreat from some areas because of climate change, the chief executive of Local Government New Zealand says.

Australia is on course to experience some of the world's most extreme temperature increases as well as more torrential rain and increased flooding, a new report shows.

Vo Van Duong's bamboo and coconut leaf house looks much like others deep in Vietnam's Mekong Delta.

Series of photographs taken over 10 years reveals huge changes to one of New Zealand’s most famous landmarks.

Hundreds of robotic instruments deployed across the South Pacific have begun to reveal dramatic new insights into the impact of climate change upon oceans in our corner of the world.

Naturalist Sir David Attenborough says global leaders are in denial about the dangers of climate change and how humans are affecting the Earth.

192 nations have pledged to agree a global treaty at a two-week negotiating marathon in Paris at the end of 2015 - the most ambitious political task in history.

Climate Change Minister Tim Groser says NZ faces "a big challenge" in making new commitments to cut emissions, following a global agreement in Peru.

At least the global climate change conference at Lima was not a train wreck, like Copenhagen five years ago.