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Youths turn up heat over climate change

A few weeks ago, a federal judge in Oregon made headlines when she ruled that a groundbreaking climate lawsuit will proceed to trial.

Climate change won't kill us this decade

A prominent NZ scientist explains why we should ignore alarmist claims that climate change will soon kill us all.

Rachel Stewart: What to do when your days are numbered

COMMENT: I had never, for one second, consciously entertained the idea that human extinction was conceivable in the near term.

Revealed: NZ households' impact on climate change

New data has revealed a notable drop in the average Kiwi household's greenhouse gas emissions, as production of meat, dairy and electricity becomes more climate-friendly.

Watch NZH Local Focus: Rotorua Scientists make fuel out of sawdust

Scientists at the Scion Research Institute in Rotorua have developed a way to use sawdust to produce biofuel for the transportation sector. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Watch NZH Local Focus: Rotorua Scientists make fuel out of sawdust

Scientists at the Scion Research Institute in Rotorua have developed a way to use sawdust to produce biofuel for the transportation sector. Made with funding from NZ On Air

Heavyweights lobby Govt on climate action

Heavyweights lobby Government to set emission targets, create long-term plan and implement policies.

Scientists scratch heads over winter

Political people are watching the chaos in Washington at the moment. But some people in the science community are watching the chaos in the Arctic.

North Pole 20C warmer than normal

The Arctic is superhot, even as a vast area of cold polar air has been displaced over Siberia.

Extreme weather linked to global warming

United Nations envoys yesterday gathered in Morocco for a second day of talks on putting the Paris Agreement into action.

What happens now that Trump has won?

Donald Trump has promised that as president he will honour the pledge stitched into his white and red baseball caps: Make America Great Again.

Record heat may be new normal by 2025

The hottest year on record globally in 2015 could be an average year by 2025 and beyond if carbon emissions continue to rise at the same rate, new research has found.

Climate change risks get star treatment

COMMENT: DiCaprio's documentary has been viewed more than six million times and will raise public consciousness.

Climate: Govt accused of 'cooking books'

The Government has again been accused of cheating to meet its climate-change commitments; this time around forestry accounting rules.

Brian Fallow: Living beyond our carbon budget

COMMENT: We've promised to cut carbon emissions, but all the options face problems.

NZ marine environment under threat

The jobs of more than 100,000 New Zealanders are linked to the seas which circle the country.

Three major concerns about NZ's oceans

Marine environment stocktake points to pressures from climate change, pests and pollution - but fails to show full impact of fishing.

Barrier Reef: 'Mortality is devastating'

Scientists taking a toll of the damage done to the Great Barrier Reef say large parts of formerly pristine coral has died.