Climate change and conflict from Tunisia to Texas
It only takes a few extreme weather events or a prolonged drought to pit humans against each other.
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A first time attempt to fly around the world in a solar powered plane starts in Abu Dhabi.
The world’s worst polluters agree to a new plan to tackle climate change, but some environmental campaigners are scathing about the deal.
The Government is to invest £2.3bn in more than 1,400 flood defence projects to provide better protection from flooding for hundreds of thousands of homes.
A multinational is pouring money into the search for shale gas deep under the British countryside. But what are the real risks of “fracking”?
This weekend saw the world’s biggest march on climate change to date. Will the enthusiasm be replicated at the New York on Tuesday? Channel 4 News takes a look.
Campaign group Greenpeace turns David Cameron’s country home into a fracking site.
North Dakota’s oil boom has a valuable by-product: natural gas. But the pipelines to transport it do not yet exist, and nearly 30 per cent of gas produced is being burned away into the atmosphere.
BA’s planes will run on biofuel recycled from London rubbish. It comes as innovation in the aviation industry sees aircraft getting greener, faster and downright weirder than ever.
At the launch of a UN climate change report, a leading expert admits dealing with climate change is not a free lunch – but adds that, for the sake of our future, it is a lunch worth buying.
Energy regulator Ofgem says it is “tearing down barriers to competition” with new rules to benefit independent suppliers. But critics say the reforms will have little immediate benefit for consumers.
Oil giant Total invests in fracking exploration in the UK, by taking a share in a licence in the Midlands currently operated by a US firm.
The UK will build its first nuclear power station in 25 years, as it strikes a deal with French EDF and two Chinese backers.
It only takes a few extreme weather events or a prolonged drought to pit humans against each other.
In the US fracking companies have made farmers and even homeowners rich overnight. Can the same happen in UK? I speak to a Brit who gave up his land for shale gas.
As Japanese engineers struggle to manage the fallout of the nuclear disaster at Fukushima, the Japanese government struggles to solve the energy crisis that it provoked.