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Editorial: Big smoke needs to be a big soak
OPINION: Manufactured and natural drainage need to be harnessed.
James Shaw: Now is the time to provide answers to Auckland’s climate disaster
OPINION: Lives in Auckland have been upended by this week’s flooding.
Southern ocean warming caused by extreme marine heatwaves ‘off the scale’
The present heatwave brings temperatures up to 6C warmer than normal.
Analysis: The three biggest lessons from Auckland’s historic floods
In aftermath of devastating floods, experts discuss three obvious lessons for NZ's cities.
Marine heatwave blamed for mass sponge die-off
Ongoing marine heatwave being linked to a mass die-off of sea sponges in Fiordland.
AI predicts world will hit key climate change threshold in 10 years
The world will keep heating, breaking through the next warming limit around mid-century.
Editorial: Hipkins’ baptism of muddy waters
First weeks on the job are rarely as testing as what the PM is dealing with now.
Editorial: It’s important to learn from this disaster
What can be done to ensure Auckland copes better with other major storms?
The Conversation: Why Auckland floods are sign of things to come
Opinion: We need a stormwater system for the climate we have now, not 50 years ago.
Explained: What caused Auckland’s wettest day - and where climate change fits in
A low-pressure system? La Niña? Climate change? All of the above, Jamie Morton explains.
Let’s choose our water future before climate change chooses for us
Hawke’s Bay Regional Council has completed NZ first region-wide water assessment
'New clean power source': First small modular nuclear reactor certified for use in US
Nuclear power emerging option as countries transition away from coal, oil and natural gas.
Design for Living: New York’s urban tree map
Bright ideas that make cities better: a map of the urban ngahere.
Musk's Twitter ablaze with climate misinformation
Misinformation has flourished on Twitter since it was bought by Elon Musk last year.
Greta Thunberg slams leaders' lack of climate action
The young activist was at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Rebuilding Better: What will NZ agriculture will look like, beyond commodities cycle?
What is New Zealand agriculture going to look like in the decades ahead?
New ice core analysis shows sharp Greenland warming spike
Greenland temperatures are 1.5 degrees hotter than its 20th-century average.
Watch: Greta Thunberg carried away by police during protest
Swedish activist, 20, joined protest against the demolition of village.
Dwindling snow leaves Swiss alpine villages staring at an identity crisis
New York Times: Unusually warm winter leaves ski resorts facing an uncertain future.
Focus: Summer of cyclones hitting NZ
Warmer sea temperatures south-west of the Pacific Islands, coupled with atmospheric conditions driven by La Niña has led to the formation of cyclones. Video / NZ Herald
How NZ's $1.3b climate change fund is being spent on the Pacific
So far New Zealand is spending at under half the rate needed to meet its commitment.
Summer of rain: Why has the weather been so bad – and will it improve?
Sunshine has been rare across the North Island this summer.
‘A tale of two islands’: Where it’s been wettest and driest this summer
With soils soaked in the north, swathes of the south are drying out fast.
Cyclone recovery likely to be slow, farmers at 'wits’ end'
Cyclone Hale hit the East Coast hard and it will take a while to fix the damage.
2022 was the fifth or sixth warmest on record
We should expect record-shattering hot years soon as the Earth heats up.
Boy told mum ‘be calm’ as California floods swept him away
Last, poignant words as Kyle Doan, 5, was parted from his mother.
From pig cell to fork: Does lab-grown meat pass the taste test?
Times: 'Cellular meat’ may one day feed the world. But will we want to eat it?
Storm-ravaged California cleans up as more rain forecast
At least 17 people have died in the storms battering the state.
Drought, snow, hurricanes ... The cost of extreme weather in the US in 2022
It was another near-record year in number of extreme events and overall damage from them.
Why Pacific Islanders are staying put as rising seas flood their homes and crops
Rising sea levels are leaving communities facing tough decisions about relocation.
'You can't stop nature': Opponent on homeowners' sea wall proposal
Opponent says efforts are futile: "The sea will rise, the cliffs will erode".
Letters: Prince Harry’s Afghan killing revelation 'makes no sense'
OPINION: Letters on New Zealand's detractors, the port and Covid cases.
Two-thirds of glaciers on track to disappear by 2100
Glaciers are shrinking and disappearing faster than scientists thought, study finds.