Extreme weather: it’s not just Britain suffering
Our Science editor Tom Clarke takes a look at the links between global warming and our current battering by extreme weather.
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“This is where they handle live Ebola virus” – Channel 4 News Science Editor Tom Clarke visits a high-level virus containment lab at Porton Down.
It might be a concrete jungle, but bumblebees are quite content with a gritty urban lifestyle and not just rolling countryside, according to a new study. Science Editor Tom Clarke reports.
Is Tesco’s ban on sweets at the checkout the sign of changing times, or a gimmick to generate good headlines? Science Editor Tom Clarke investigates – with the help of the experts….
As David Cameron says money is no object on flood relief, a team of Dutch engineers arrive in the UK and reveal that British defences are under severe strain. Tom Clarke reports.
Our Science editor Tom Clarke takes a look at the links between global warming and our current battering by extreme weather.
Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines may well have been the most powerful storm ever recorded but science editor Tom Clarke says the blame may not lie with man-made climate change.
At the start of the year the government revealed plans to double the number of trees planted each year. But, as Tom Clarke explores, it has now “uprooted” a scheme to fund new forests.
Tom Clarke reports from a Surrey hillside where butterfly numbers have soared off the back of good summer weather. Elsewhere, however, the picture for butterflies is not as sunny.
Victory for the small boats over their bigger rivals could herald further reform of an ailing industry, argues Science Editor Tom Clarke.
Channel 4 News is examining the alarming changes taking place in the British countryside. Science Editor Tom Clarke takes a look at trees – and why they have never had it so tough.
The latest strain of bird flu has now infected more than 100 people in China and so far 20 have died, writes Channel 4 News Science Editor Tom Clarke.
After such a long spell of cold, wet weather, should scientists admit that the drastic temperature rises they predicted have failed to materialise? Tom Clarke reports from the Peak District.
We are in the grip of a long, cold winter, and UK gas supplies are feeling the strain – but the National Grid says the prospect of running out of gas is “nonsense”, writes Tom Clarke.
A £1bn telescope under construction in the Chilean Andes is designed to capture the very earliest moments of the universe and will revolutionise every area of astronomy, as Tom Clarke reports.
Some 18 government labs across the UK are starting to test food samples to discover the extent of horsemeat contamination. Tom Clarke visits a testing centre in Yorkshire.