Climate

Australia's southeast on Sunday sweltered in a heat wave that raised the risk of bushfires and led authorities to issue fire bans for large swathes of New South Wales state.

Vegetable growers are gearing up for months of warmer, drier weather.

Tighter standards to combat forestry slash by targeting new plantings are poised to get a final sign-off.

Ngāi Tahu is starting to see insurance retreat affect its marae and papakāinga homes.

The ACT Party has raised the possibility it would renege on New Zealand's international climate pledge under the Paris Agreement.

The government has delayed its strategy to help struggling households manage the costs of shifting to a low carbon economy. A critic says there's "no justification" for doing so.

ACT Party leader David Seymour says his party will stop what he says is wasteful climate change spending.

Car makers say they are going green. But they still spend much more advertising their biggest gas guzzlers than their smaller, less profitable EVs.

While attention is focused on National's $500 million-a-year hole, another has opened up in plain sight - and it's Labour's problem, too.

A progress report from the UN shows many countries, including New Zealand, are falling behind on tackling climate change.

More than 260 sites owned by The Warehouse Group are set to be powered by solar farms as the group inks a long-term agreement with Lodestone Energy.

Children, the elderly and some people with medical conditions are especially vulnerable to becoming dangerously unwell during heats higher than they're used to, experts say.

The sea-ice surrounding Antarctica is well below any previous recorded winter level, satellite data shows, a worrying new benchmark for a region that once seemed resistant to global warming.

Large parts of Australia were in the grips of "uncommon" spring heat on Saturday, with records tipped to be broken on Sunday.

The most recent protest by the Restore Passenger Rail climate protest group is not just the latest in a local movement - it's part of a global trend.