Climate

Trees have been chopped down at Marlborough Airport to make way for hundreds more carpark spaces.

Dozens of bushfires burning across Australia's east coast could get worse as a severe heatwave continues, fire services have warned.

There can be tension when communities feel the risk from a hazard has diminished enough for them to return home and pick up their lives, Martin Brook writes.

Izma Azad no longer shuts the front gate of her home - there is nothing valuable inside, she says. Audio

New Zealand's economy could be $64 billion better off by 2050 if decisive climate action is taken, a new report by consulting firm Deloitte found. Audio

The decision to refocus transport spending will not compromise action on climate change, Chris Hipkins says. Audio

The Prime Minister says "a lot has changed" since Cabinet agreed its transport priorities, as the government focuses on an emergency-style GPS to help to reconstruct roads and bridges.

It is not too early to talk about retreating rather than rebuilding after Cyclone Gabrielle, says an engineer who helped move an entire Australian town after floods. Audio

Thousands of people turned up for climate strikes across the country this afternoon, and briefly staged a sit in at Christchurch City Council.

Wayne Simpson and his guests smashed through the roof of his two-storey shed to save their lives from flooding. He says no one can safely live in the area again.

Residents and business owners whose properties have been destroyed by the cyclone face an agonising wait to see if they will be red-zoned.

Students will be ditching the classroom this afternoon to join the latest school strike for climate. Audio