COMMENT: I am rebranding as the only columnist any rational person will ever want.

How warm would the ocean have to get to melt Antarctica's marine ice sheets, study asks.

COMMENT: Fossil fuels stripped of carbon leave clean hydrogen for use.

Trump might have been joking, but but scientists see nothing to laugh at.

The massive East Antarctica ice sheet is already a major contributor to sea-level rise.

One of the worst towns for air pollution the focus of a study pin-pointing NZ's problems.

Warm seas look set to keep overnight temperatures above normal for a while.

Experts say the United State's biggest crisis has nothing to do with the border.

From time travel to dreams, scientists answer - or try to - 10 of the biggest questions.

A glaciologist's epic trek across France-sized ice shelf will help unlock climate clues.

The heating seas could permanently hurt our marine ecosystem, scientists say.

Kiwi scientists have found a clever way to look at how climate change will hit Antarctica.

Researchers are examining how much heat waves may have contributed to the jellyfish bloom.

OPINION: Imagining a world of change as daughter Greta grows up.

EDITORIAL: Few modern leaders have had such a tough year.

A once-vibrant waterfront now littered with bach corpses, eerie reminders of summers past.

NZ just saw its warmest year in one and a half centuries of records, scientist says.

It seems they are now realising that the expense of doing nothing is rising rapidly.

If you're prone to migraines, you might want to reconsider that Chrissy tipple.

The creature's behaviour is said to compare to Trump's stance on global warming.

Could bees be the key to better biosecurity? Scientists think so.

"You are not mature enough to tell it like it is."

Gruelling negotiations in Poland have added legal flesh to bones of 2015 Paris agreement.

Kiwi and Korean scientists are teaming up to measure Antarctica's subtlest changes.

Almost 200 countries agreed to the rules which would put the Paris treaty into action.

The head of the Maldives delegation questions the point of the yearly summits.

Agreement on the fine print of the Paris climate accord drew closer Thursday.

Alaskan scientists describe never-before-seen melting in the Arctic and Antarctica.

From the meth house myth to gene-edited babies, it was a big year for science news.

Changes to the Emissions Trading Scheme will cap units and bring in permanent forest.