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Sam Judd: Conflict on climate change? Plant more trees

COMMENT: The aftermath of signing the Paris Agreement on climate change is a good time to take stock of where we are at on this important issue.

Bennett signs historic agreement

Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett has signed an historic global climate change agreement on behalf of NZ.

Climate change: Reports you need to read

170 nations are now signing the Paris Agreement a landmark deal that attempts to rein in global warming beyond 2020.

Vast planting of trees needed to boost green economy: report

New Zealand urgently needs to plant huge areas of trees to help combat climate change and boost a green economy, a business think-tank says.

Brian Fallow: Can NZ handle the heat?

COMMENT: From rising sea levels to flooded rivers, from drought to wildfire - scientists list the impacts of climate change.

Climate change: Why you should worry

With a historic global climate agreement about to be signed in New York, a new report has laid bare how New Zealand will be affected by climate change.

'We are, without doubt, cheats'

New Zealand is being accused of cheating to fulfil its international climate change obligations.

Bennett to sign historic climate agreement

Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett will head to New York next week to sign New Zealand up to a historic climate agreement.

Bennett signals end to emissions deal

Big industrial emitters of greenhouse gases will lose their right under the emissions trading scheme to offset only half of their emissions, Climate Change Minister Paula Bennett told an international energy conference in Wellington.

Sam Judd: The story of a cyclone

Sam Judd writes, "Today I thought that a story about how awesome the New Zealand coastline is would be appropriate, because what is not to love out here?"

Outlook for 5 years picks heat to rise

Global temperatures will continue to soar over the next year as rising levels of greenhouse gas emissions and the effect of El Nino.

Watch: Leonardo DiCaprio meets the Pope

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio greets the Pope in Italian and discusses the environment.

Mike's Minute: Nuclear threat low, so why doom and gloom?

Mike Hosking says when it comes down to it, what country is a genuine nuclear threat right now? This doom and gloom attitude needs to stop.

Scientists probe Antarctic ice sheet

Call it extreme geology: a team of Kiwi scientists is venturing to a remote part of Antarctica to dig up ancient evidence of a warmer world.

Robin Grieve: Our leaders are misleading us on climate change

The utterings of our leaders demonstrate how global warming has moved from a scientific theory where integrity matters, to a political movement where it doesn't, writes Robin Grieve.

Tim Grafton: Take long view of risk management

Dr Joshua Freeman, Dr Hayley Bennet: TPP could trump climate accord

Trade deal gives polluters power to sue governments who try to implement the Paris agreement.

Feeling the heat

In Europe the daffodils are in bloom and ski fields are bare in the warmest December ever. John Vidal asks how worrying is the world's strange weather.