By LOIS CAIRNS - Sunday Star Times

Climate scientists are re-thinking their outlook for the summer as the El Nino weather pattern strengthens and threatens to bring windier weather to our shores.

Four icebergs sighted off the Auckland Islands, 400km south of Bluff, are slowly heading toward New Zealand.

By COLIN ESPINER and TRACY WATKINS - The Dominion Post

Prime Minister John Key is leaving open the possibility of attending the crucial Copenhagen conference on climate change, after earlier saying he definitely would not go.

Lucy Lawless and Jim Salinger only got as far as the Beehive front desk when attempting to give Prime Minister John Key a boarding pass to Copenhagen today.

Prime Minister John Key says the international climate change meeting in Copenhagen next month is unlikely to result in a binding treaty.

A blood-orange blob the size of a small refrigerator emerged from the dark waters, its venomous tentacles trapped in a fishing net.

Four Greenpeace activists have been arrested after trying to block access to a mine from which Fonterra obtains lignite to power its Edendale dairy factory in Southland.

Ponds dug for fish rearing and storing water for agriculture are the main cause of arsenic-contaminated drinking water which has caused widespread poisoning in Bangladesh.

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Agreement was reached today on a new organisation to manage South Pacific fisheries.

Protest rallies against aerial drops of 1080 poison are being held in many across the country on Sunday.

Nick Smith says New Zealand's climate change policy has been given a reality check.

Destruction of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil has fallen to its lowest annual level in 21 years, the government says, in a boost to the country's green credentials ahead of a global climate summit.

By KIRAN CHUG - The Dominion Post

Scientists are predicting seas will rise higher than the levels the Environment Ministry advises local councils to plan for.

By DAVID WILLIAMS - The Press

Outspoken journalist and author Ian Wishart put on mute at a climate science conference.

Scientists are battling to pull together a 10-year research plan, financial budgets, and a mountain of other details over the next month to create the Government's new Centre for Agriculture Greenhouse Gas Research.

By KIRAN CHUG - The Dominion Post

New Zealand scientists say massive ice shelves are protecting Antarctica from experiencing the same rapid decline in sea ice as the Arctic.

By DAVE BURGESS - The Dominion Post

A compromise solution has been found that will remove piles of smelly seaweed left on Island Bay beach after the creation of a marine reserve at Wellington's south coast.

The Environment Court has declined consent for a windfarm in Central Otago's Lammermoor Range, Meridian Energy says.

By MICHAEL FOX - Stuff.co.nz

A dead fin whale has been discovered wrapped around the bow of a car freighter at Lyttleton Harbour.

Road workers have uncovered what could be the bones of a family of moa while building a highway near Taupo.