Climate Change

It's been a year of developments in Climate Change discussions - but not a year of progress.  Audio

Coastal ecosystems are better than tropical rainforests when it comes to trapping carbon and at this year's big climate change conference they finally got some attention.  Audio

On the Panel this morning are Mike Williams and Janet Wilson. They look at whether the media are giving new National leader Christopher Luxon a fair go, the billion-dollar climate action package, and… Audio

Australia correspondent Bernard Keane joins Kathryn to talk about a report released yesterday which found one third of Parliamentary employees had been sexually harassed. The Parliamentary schedule… Audio

Master storyteller Ken Follett is one of the best-selling authors of the past 50 years, with over 178 million sales of his 32 books in print. The Welsh writer's latest book, Never, marks a return to… Audio

The writer, Amitav Ghosh critiques Western society and exploitative practices in his latest book The Nutmeg's Curse - Parables For A Planet In Crisis. It is a follow to his critically acclaimed book… Audio

The extremes of temperature, short summers and high rates of erosion are making for an uncertain environment for the flora and fauna in alpine areas, and also for the people who explore it. Sir Alan… Audio

We've heard it all before. 'Boomers' - arguably the most disliked generation - only think about themselves, while millennials (aka 'snowflakes') wouldn't know a hard day's work if it slapped them… Audio

The climate talks in Glasgow are the big global story right now - but it doesn't always feel like it in our news. A climate change reporter tells Mediawatch every journalist should now be one too -… Audio

Joining us on the panel this morning are Dr Alexander Gillespie and Lavina Good. Among other topics, they'll be discussing the anti-lockdown protest on Auckland's motorway, the All Blacks and Black… Audio

In the near future, the climate emergency has forced the wealthy to seek refuge in Aotearoa. Water is rationed, and things like coffee and beer are now luxury items - prohibitively expensive for most… Audio

Australia correspondent Annika Smethurst joins Kathryn to detail the extraordinary exchanges at COP26 between the French president Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Audio

New Zealand's climate change minister says he has reassured Pacific countries who have not been able to make it to COP26 in Glasgow that New Zealand will do its best to amplify their positions in the… Audio

A casual comment from the British Prime Minister about belching cows has put work by clever Kiwi scientists onto the world stage at COP-26.

And for the second day in a row, New Zealand climate… Audio

If eco-warrior Jacques-Yves Cousteau was still alive today, he'd be alarmed by the state of the planet's oceans and the wild creatures in them, says Becoming Cousteau co-writer Pax Wasserman. And he'd… Audio