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Sustainability: Is it at risk of becoming a fair-weather friend?

Tim McCready looks at some recent trends that are giving 'sustainability' a mixed outlook.

Making an investment in changing the way we live

There is growing interest from private sector investors in climate investment opportuniti

Former IBM man’s start-up, ClimateTracker, helps firms grapple with new climate reporting requirements

A big customer win locally, and a global hook-up with AWS.

CO2 shortage: Contact Energy’s proposed solution to the bubbles crisis

It's the essential ingredient to keep the bubbles in everything, from lager to lemonade.

Samantha Ladewig: Plastic pollution - another nuclear-free moment?

OPINION: The need for international action is urgent.

Big agenda and some sticky issues ahead for Fonterra's annual meeting

There will be plenty for shareholders to chew over.

Risk of Australian bushfire smoke in NZ skies this summer

Meteorologists will be watching for Australian bushfire smoke travelling here this summer.

Steven Joyce: Rolling back regulation will be new Govt's first mission

OPINION: And the other tasks new Government needs to get to work on.

Opinion: Giving voice to our future

OPINION: An opportunity missed.

Thomas Coughlan: Christopher Luxon is about to find out everything is his fault

OPINION: Luxon will be challenged by things he cannot control.

Climate change’s financial impacts hugely underestimated say researchers

The global costs of climate change are being underestimated by billions of dollars a year.

NZ charities unite, refugees record and careening climate | Focus Morning Bulletin October 26, 2023

An urgent appeal has been launched to raise funds for people suffering as a humanitarian crisis deepens in Gaza, conflict in three continents has driven the global number of refugees to a new record of more than 114 million and United Nations researchers warn the world is careening dangerously close to environmental tipping points. Video / NZ Herald

King's Counsel barrister battling authorities over his $6.2m Matakana estate's seawall

"Reserve land would be at risk of being washed away, so the public would be the loser."

Worsening marine heatwaves threat to popular shellfish

Lab glitch unexpectedly delivers insights into how mussels will cope with climate change.

Government's ban on new fossil-fuel power plants questioned

Officials questioned the need to ban something that was unlikely to happen anyway.

The 12 regions that recorded a 100-plus day marine heatwave

One region topped them all with a record 381-day marine heatwave.