Although many scientists are warning of human-promoted climate change, PeterFoster believes otherwise.
A judge has reserved his decision about whether the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research used invalid methods to gather temperature data, as alleged by a group sceptical of global warming.
There may be a "hint" of recovery in the ozone layer, according to one of the international scientists with equipment based at Lauder for global climate research.
Another hurdle has fallen for West Coast coal miner Bathurst Resources, angering environmentalists, with the news the effects on climate change will not make the agenda of forthcoming Environment Court resource consent challenges.
More than 300 of the world's brightest minds concerned with climate change research will gather in Queenstown after a successful first-time bid by Bodeker Scientific, Tourism New Zealand's conference assistance programme (CAP) and the Queenstown Convention Bureau.
Extreme weather events over the past decade have increased and were "very likely" caused by manmade global warming, a study in the journal Nature Climate Change said today.
An "unprecedented" March heat wave in much of the continental United States has set or tied more than 7000 high temperature records, and signals a warming climate, health and weather experts said.
Last week, Climate Change Ambassador Jo Tyndall briefed "stakeholders" on the global negotiations, in which New Zealand has an outsize role.
More floods, droughts and extreme weather events associated with the El Nino and La Nina cycles can be expected in New Zealand in a warming world, Auckland researchers predict.
Weather forecasters, many of whom see climate change as a natural, cyclical phenomenon, are split over whether they have a responsibility to educate their viewers on the link between human activity and the change in the Earth's climates.
The University of Otago-based Centre for Chemical and Physical Oceanography has won the $500,000 top award in the Prime Minister's latest science prizes, for cutting-edge research in evaluating ways to reduce greenhouse gases.
Climate negotiators have agreed a pact that would for the first time force all the biggest polluters to take action on greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the action plan was not aggressive enough to slow the pace of global warming.
New Zealand has been criticised for its "irresponsible'' lack of commitment to stopping climate change.
Developing states most at risk from global warming rebelled against a proposed deal at UN climate talks, forcing host South Africa to draw up new draft documents in a bid to prevent the talks collapsing.
Durban must deliver the road map to a global climate agreement, European Commissioner for Climate Action writes Connie Hedegaard.
The plans for a new global deal on climate change lie broken and abandoned. The usual suspects are meeting again, this time in Durban, but there is even less hope of progress than there was in Cancun last year.
The Arctic zone has moved into a warmer, greener "new normal" phase, which means less habitat for polar bears and more access for development, an international scientific team reported.
The mystery of how a subglacial mountain range the size of the Alps formed up to 250 million years ago has finally been solved and could help map the effects of climate change, scientists say.
A greener Central Otago in future with fuller rivers and lakes during winter and spring was the picture painted by climate scientist Jim Salinger when he was in the district last week to talk about climate change.
The world's governments and relief agencies need to plan now to resettle millions of people expected to be displaced by climate change, an international panel of experts said today.