Tom Clarke

  • 10 Apr 2017

    More than two thirds of the coral in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is experiencing “shocking” amounts of bleaching. Tom Clarke talks to Christiana Figueres, the former UN climate change chief.

  • 8 Apr 2017

    While nests are protected, that’s not always easy when trees have to be cut down – something Network Rail says is vital to running a safe and efficient railway. But what more could more be done to save them?

  • 4 Apr 2017

    It’s billed as the most ambitious and toughest anti-pollution plan the world has ever seen. Polluting vehicles will have to pay between £12.50 and  £100 to enter central London, in an effort to tackle the toxic gases that are threatening our health.

  • 30 Mar 2017

    Leaving aside the nature of Britain after Brexit what about Britain’s nature?

  • 28 Mar 2017

    He says it will put thousands of people back to work and reduce America’s reliance on imported fuel. But critics say that Donald Trump is ripping up a series of important protections against global warming.

  • 22 Mar 2017

    Some of the injured were taken to St Thomas’ Hospital and our correspondent Tom Clarke is there now.

  • 14 Mar 2017

    The electronics firm Toshiba is considering selling its majority stake in US nuclear division Westinghouse, as it tries to find a way out from financial crisis, missing its own reporting deadline for a second time today. But there are wider implications too.

  • 8 Mar 2017

    One of the notable things about the Chancellor’s 55-minute statement was how much it didn’t say. There was nothing, for instance, about climate change.

  • 3 Mar 2017

    The remains of babies and young children have been found in a mass grave on the site of a former home for unmarried mothers in Ireland run by Catholic nuns.  

  • 2 Mar 2017

    The Conservatives made a campaign promise to leave Britain’s nature in a better state than they found it.

  • 26 Feb 2017

    The new head of America’s environmental protection agency has told conservative activists he won’t go through with earlier threats to scrap the EPA altogether. But Scott Prewitt said the task of rolling back key climate and clean water regulations could start as soon as next week. And he’s not the only climate change sceptic with…

  • 25 Feb 2017

    For pupils at more then 800 schools there’s no such thing as a breath of fresh air. That’s because a new study says schools across London are exposed to illegal levels of air pollution which could permanently damage their health. The city’s mayor Sadiq Khan has planned a range of measures including a “toxicity tax”…

  • 21 Feb 2017

    Brexit is a once in a generation opportunity to transform British farming. That’s how Environment Secretary Andrea Leadsom described it to farmers today.

  • 31 Jan 2017

    It’s the most commonly-used drug to treat malaria victims in Britain. But, for the first time, the combination drug known as AL has failed to be effective in its treatment of four patients, who’d all recently returned from Africa.

  • 30 Jan 2017

    President Trump has alarmed environmentalists by appointing climate change deniers to key positions within his administration. Now Myron Ebell, the man who was appointed by Trump to lead the transition team for the Environmental Protection Agency, is in London to meet like- minded climate change sceptics.