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Love, but little else at UN meet

The planet will be drowned in love and good intentions from the United Nations today when leaders from around the world gather for a climate summit that will try to give fresh impetus to global negotiations.

How compact cities help curb climate change

As the world urbanises at break-neck speed, the way we design growing cities will heavily determine the environmental impact of the people who live there.

Climate-change activists fill the streets

Tens of thousands of activists walked through Manhattan, New York, warning that climate change is destroying the Earth - in stride with demonstrators around the world who urged policymakers to take quick action.

California's options drying up

What is NZ's current sunshine capital?

Which town looks set to keep its crown as New Zealand's sunshine capital? A new climate report shows one place well out in front.

Climate minister didn't expect National voters at debate

Antarctic sea level rise could be more dramatic than earlier thought - expert

Will climate change cause new plagues?

Alien lifeform hopes raised

Researchers established that tiny life forms were thriving in a lake beneath 800 metres of pack ice, despite not seening sunlight or fresh air for around a million years.

NZ's credit rating outlook revised to positive

Lawless: Vote for the future

The New Zealand Government talks about the importance of science but ignores the most critical threat to life on Earth since the advent of nuclear arms, writes Lucy Lawless.

Govt urged to enforce goals

A lobby group has challenged the next government to introduce a climate change act that would galvanise promises to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

Shifting sands of wine production

Could emperor penguins be wiped out?

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.

Is climate change destabilising Iraq?

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

China plans to fight pollution

Bernard Hickey: Climate change as big a threat as the credit crisis

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.

Billy Adams: Climate warrior and coal baron

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.