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Stark climate change warning due
Scientists will this week issue their starkest warning yet about the mounting dangers of global warming.
Scientists will this week issue their starkest warning yet about the mounting dangers of global warming.
International leaders are failing in their fight against global warming, one of the United Nations' top climate officials has said.
My obligation not to harm existing people seems urgent and non-negotiable, but the harm I might be inflicting on future people is easy to ignore.
Relocation is a dirty word at the Pacific Islands Forum.
An hour before the Pacific Islands Forum's opening feast, hundreds of shark fins were hauled out for display.
New Zealand has committed $5 million to low-lying countries that are vulnerable to water shortages.
A tiny Pacific island state that is being submerged by rising oceans will tell New Zealand that it is not disposable.
The Pacific region is on the front line of climate change. Its low-lying islands risk being swamped by rising sea levels and their inhabitants forced to emigrate.
While Australia's election debate continues to whirl around the economy, there is a sleeper in the campaign.
A major US report held as the world's most authorative annual climate check has shown a range of records were broken last year - and mostly for the wrong reasons.
More work is needed to better understand how climate change will affect New Zealand at a regional level, a new report says.
The Government has proposed cutting $10 million in funding for climate change research in a move described as disheartening for New Zealand's highly capable climate scientists.
Herein lies the opportunity for NZ, writes Frank Duffield. Its resource base is largely underexplored, and world-scale natural gas discoveries are quite possible.
They love wars, those Republicans. Wars on Freedom. Wars on Jobs. Wars on Wars: everything's a war.
The closest most of us will get to Antarctica is nature documentaries like Frozen Planet - but the white continent's relevance to us and our future is far greater than we think.
A climate change campaigner says he is hopeful that the world can avert a catastrophic global warming scenario.
Leading scientists, farmers, politicians, foresters and business people will descend on Parliament today to take part in a climate change conference.
The priorities are clearly badly wrong, writes Bryan Walker. NZ needs to turn its back on a prosperity resulting in severe threats to the human future and build an economy which flourishes on green energy sources.
Several aspects of Jim Salinger's op-ed "Climate hurtling towards a hothouse Earth" (Herald 24/5/13) are quite misleading.
New research from Oxford University shows the rate of global warming has been lower over the past decade than it was previously.
Global warming was to blame for super storms that killed hundreds of people last year, and record levels of ice thaw in the Arctic, the United Nations has warned.