The new quake hit the South Island around 1.45pm local time.
A tsunami warning has been issued with 5-meter-high waves feared to strike the South Island.
Two people have died after the quake struck 57 miles northeast of the city.
President-elect Donald Trump has called climate change a 'hoax'.
China could take America's place as a leading global force against climate change, claims Ségolène Royal.
Government officials have yet to identify the object but reports speculate it is part of a Chinese satellite.
Cosmological models indicate 'Little Rip' end of universe scenario, where galaxies are slowly torn to bits.
Breeding with archaic humans provided modern humans with a set of useful genes.
A catalogue of ways climate change has already affected nature will directly hit society.
The use of the sticks as tools was caught on hidden cameras by ponds and riverbanks.
American dentist Walter Palmer sparked outrage when he killed the lion in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park.
The tree reaches a height of 94.1m and was first seen from a helicopter.
This Martian home would protect the first humans on the Red Planet from deadly cold and radiation.
"The world's best chance of avoiding dangerous global warming are a climate trade war and rampant climate disobedience."
Zoo currently has 500 eggs of the critically endangered Lord Howe Island stick insect.
Meteorites investigated with Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity suggest planet has been arid for a long time.
Seven properties were evacuated after the sinkhole appeared on Wednesday 9 November.
The discovery could help medical researchers tackle leprosy in humans.
As Trump was elected, world officials gathered to discuss how we can stop the thing he claims isn't happening.
For each ton of carbon dioxide emitted, an extra three square metres of Arctic summer sea-ice is lost.
The man was probably a slave or a man condemned for an offence.
Full moon will coincide with perigee on 14 November and is the second of three supermoons.
The fossil suggests that a group of feathered dinosaurs was thriving right before the mass extinction.
Thirty UK science centres and museums hope to grow seeds into nation-wide apple orchard.
November's supermoon is worth watching – it will be the biggest supermoon in seven decades.
Johannesburg Zoo had to close after a section of wall collapsed in the rains.
Access to women may be one of the main reasons why Norsemen raided Europe.
The Paris climate deal was signed by over 100 nations in December 2015 to curb global warming.
Archaeologists unearthed money pots used to collect ticket fees and beads and pins from costumes.
The Red List of species under threat must be brought up to date to reflect this finding, study authors say.