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Our planet viewed from space
With such a stunning collection of Nasa earth observation images available, I thought I would pull together some of the best ones and offer explanation as to what they are showing.
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The Climate Change Committee says that around £10 billion a year of “essential” new investment is needed — but that “adaptation in the UK remains chronically underfunded and overlooked”.
From droughts across Europe to devastating floods in Pakistan, the last few weeks alone have provided more evidence of the devastating impact of the climate emergency. Although Liz Truss has pledged to stick to the legally binding target of net zero emissions by 2050, it’s less clear how she plans to get there. She says…
Two climate emergencies – one from a deadly shortage of water; one from too much, killing and uprooting people on a vast scale.
With such a stunning collection of Nasa earth observation images available, I thought I would pull together some of the best ones and offer explanation as to what they are showing.
Flooding, famine, drought and disease – the impact of climate change predicted in the IPCC scientists’ report could have a negative impact for millions of people in the poorest parts of the world.
Beaten, imprisoned and sold into slavery – Channel 4 News reveals the fate of Burma’s Muslim Rohingya refugees, who flee conflict only to end up in the clutches of brutal human traffickers.
As the UK learns it has experienced the second wettest year on record, Channel 4 News looks globally at the extreme weather events of 2012 and asks if we should expect more in 2013?
As the year draws to a close (but hopefully not the world, unless the Mayans were right all along) we want to know what 2012 has done for you, from Gangnam Style to changing attitudes to disability.
Ban Ki-Moon has come under attack for failing to push for a war crimes probe in Sri Lanka. But a former UN Deputy Secretary-General tells Channel 4 News Ban is powerless to defy Russia and China.
Jonathan Miller reports on the aftermath of the Queensland floods – and the likelihood that the world will face more natural disasters of this type in years to come.
It did not require complex climatic modelling to predict the “super storm” which unleashed Queensland’s inland killer-tsunami. Meteorologists and oceanographers did, to some degree, see it coming, warning that after weeks of waterlogging, further deluge could spell disaster.
Brisbane police urge evacuation as the city faces major flooding. Ten people have already been killed and a Queensland resident tells Channel 4 News whole houses are being swept away.
Jonathan Miller writes on why the Pakistan flood disaster is far from over, and why helping tackle it is in the West’s interest.
As the parents of suspected honour killing victim Shafilea Ahmed are released on bail, Midlands Correspondent Darshna Soni writes that her family are deeply upset by the action taken against them.
Their plot forced airlines to bring in tough and unpopular rules and as Simon Israel reports in September 2009 the three men behind the failed liquid bomb attacks were jailed for a total of 108 years.