Many of the victims of New Zealand's recent floods lost all of their possessions ... the country are in coastal areas, vulnerable to erosion and sea level rise. "[When] people are sleeping with ...

New Zealand is grappling with two consecutive extreme weather events—massive flooding followed by a cyclone—that have claimed at least 12 lives and left hundreds of thousands of people ...

Many are on flood plains or near the sea ... stretch of coastline has one of the highest rates of erosion and sea level rise in New Zealand. Tens of thousands of people are expected to have ...

Schools were closed and flights cancelled as New Zealand's capital Wellington was hit by its strongest winds in over a decade on Thursday while a state of emergency was declared in parts of the South ...

Last year, Tower became New Zealand's first insurer ... ratings specific to addresses. While its flood risk ratings currently didn't extend to coastal erosion, that is set to change, with the ...

MetService expected five metre (16 foot) swells in the Cook Strait, the body of water between New Zealand’s two largest islands. About 1,000 properties were without electricity Thursday ...

New Zealand could make better use of natural processes to reduce the risk of flooding, according to research by the National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA). Initiatives that use ...

IN an article entitled "Contrasting Regional Morphology of Soil Erosion in New Zealand" (Geog. Rev., January), Mr. K. B. Cumberland directs attention to the seriousness and rapidity of soil ...

New Zealand plans to introduce legislation before the end of the year that will create a framework to help communities and businesses adapt to the impacts of climate change. The law will establish ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The New Zealand city of Dunedin was cut off by road due to flooding Friday after recording its wettest day in more than a century. Local authorities in the South ...

New Zealand faced a barrage of severe weather warnings on Thursday, with heavy downpours triggering a state of emergency in Christchurch, the South Island's largest city, and "destructive" gales ...