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May 14, 2026

Future big droughts may be worse than we think – NZ’s past shows why

Adam Brown, University of Waikato; Dave Frame, University of Canterbury, and Luke Harrington, University of Waikato

Analysis reveals some of NZ’s worst droughts occurred before 1950 – meaning recent experience may not reflect the full scale of future risk in a warming climate.

Livestock is a significant source of methane, a potent but short-lived greenhouse gas. from www.shutterstock.com

June 12, 2018

Why methane should be treated differently compared to long‑lived greenhouse gases

Dave Frame, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington; Adrian Henry Macey, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington, and Myles Allen, University of Oxford

New research has suggested a fresh way to account for greenhouse gases with different lifetimes in the atmosphere.

The window for staving off the worst of climate change is wider than we thought, but still pretty narrow. Tatiana Grozetskaya/Shutterstock.com

September 18, 2017

Keeping global warming to 1.5 degrees: really hard, but not impossible

Dave Frame, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington and H. Damon Matthews, Concordia University

It’s still possible to hit the more ambitious of the two Paris global warming goals, according to a new estimate of the global carbon budget. But it sure won’t be easy, and we need to start now.

Disruptive technology, Ming Dynasty-style. Vmenkov/Wikimedia Commons

June 2, 2017

15th‑century Chinese sailors have a lesson for Trump about climate policy

Dave Frame, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington

In pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, Donald Trump has turned his back not just on the world but on the low-carbon economy. He should pay heed to a very apt lesson from China’s history.

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