Environment

As two British teams recreate Scott and Amundsen’s legendary race to the South Pole, Channel 4 News records a special Christmas message from them.

Government plans to slash incentive payments to people who install solar panels in their homes have been declared “legally flawed”.

A default “yes” to development should be removed from the government’s proposed planning reforms, a committee of MPs said today. But concerns are raised elsewhere about the UK’s housing shortage.

Quotas have been increased but fishermen will have less time at sea to take advantage of the new catch limits.

After talks running over into Sunday morning, the Durban UN conference on climate change finally ends with an agreement to extend the Kyoto Protocol, due to expire next year.

Negotiations at the UN climate change conference in South Africa continue into Saturday – but prospects are fading for any internationally binding deal before the Kyoto Protocol expires.

A prosecutor faces disciplinary action after an inquiry uncovers a series of failures over the use of an undercover police officer. DPP Keir Starmer tells Channel 4 News the problem is not “systemic”.

The population of turtle doves and other UK farmland species has fallen by 90 per cent since the 1970s, bringing levels to a record low. But Channel 4 News hears that the future looks bleak for birds.

Transport Minister Norman Baker rejects allegations by environmentalists that he is “doing the dirty work” of the Canadian government and promoting oil industry interests ahead of a crucial EU vote.

Channel 4 News speaks to a man working for children yet to be born, as new research finds that 67 per cent of British people think the government plans too little for the needs of future generations.

Alex Thomson returns to Ishinomaki’s Okawa primary school in Japan, where he finds harrowing reminders of the lives of the 74 children and teachers who died in the tsunami there eight months ago.

With a month to go until payments are cut for households starting to generate solar energy, business leaders have attacked the move, which was announced by the government suddenly last week.

Energy company EDF is fined 1.5 million euros by a French court after being found guilty of spying on environmental group Greenpeace, as Science Correspondent Tom Clarke reports.

Extracting shale gas near Blackpool by “fracking” almost certainly caused two minor earthquakes earlier this year – but could it hold the key to the UK’s energy future? Channel 4 News investigates.

Thailand’s floods crisis deepens as water begins pouring into Bangkok’s suburbs, forcing the Thai capital’s domestic airport to close.