Wellington, Nov 24 NZPA - Email exchanges and information involving New Zealand climate scientists is among data stolen and leaked by hackers of a British university computer system.

Wellington, Nov 23 NZPA - Prime Minister John Key has dismissed as a photo opportunity December's United Nations conference in Copenhagen aimed at clinching a new global climate deal.

Wellington, Nov 18 NZPA - 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.

Wellington, Nov 18 NZPA - Prime Minister John Key will be offered $4781 by Lucy Lawless and Jim Salinger today in an attempt to get him to a climate change conference in Denmark next month.

Wellington, July 21 NZPA - Greenhouse gas emissions from the energy sector jumped 3.6 percent last year -- the first year in which New Zealand has to account for its emissions under the Kyoto protocol.

Wellington, April 28 NZPA - Minister of Research, Science and Technology, Wayne Mapp is not being drawn into a row over the sacking of top climate scientist Jim Salinger.

Wellington, April 24 NZPA - One of New Zealand's top climate scientists, Jim Salinger, has been fired from his job at the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (Niwa).

Wellington, Jan 14 NZPA - The Government has promised support for rural communities if the big "dry" now under way on the east coasts of both islands turns into an official drought.