Environment

Rescue workers explain to Channel 4 News that food and shelter are the priorities, after an earthquake in south east Turkey which has left hundreds of people dead and thousands homeless.

Previous climate scientists were correct, says an independent review of global temperatures, that was set up after “climate-gate” email scandal last year.

The government has abandoned plans to fund a commercial carbon capture and storage (CSS) project at ScottishPower’s plant at Longannet, Fife.

An interim independent report predicts that 2,700 people will die this winter as a consequence of fuel poverty, a figure greater than the number killed in traffic accidents each year.

Rules on plant and timber imports to the UK are to be tightened in an attempt to rid the country of alien diseases that have already killed millions of trees.

Changes to Europe’s farm handouts could hit big landowners like the Queen. But critics say it is a massive missed opportunity to abandon the subsidy culture for good.

The government is setting up a £250m fund to help local authorities in England switch from fortnightly to weekly bin rounds. But there are fears recycling rates could be hit, Channel 4 News hears.

Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize winner and environmentalist Wangari Maathai has died in hospital, where she was being treated for cancer. She was 71.

A study shows that while over half of the UK’s mammals are doing well, numbers of certain species like hedgehogs and the red squirrel have declined in the last ten years.

The latest edition of The Times atlas shows the effects of environmental change on the planet including the appearance of a new island.

Proposed marine conservation zones aim to protect wildlife at 127 sites around England and Wales but as Science Correspondent Tom Clarke reports, some fishermen fear it could damage their business.

Environmentalists call for all the details of a 20-mile oil leak off the Scottish coast to be released, as Royal Dutch Shell say the spill is under control

Judges rule that undercover police officer Mark Kennedy unlawfully spied on climate change activists who were accused of planning to shut down the UK’s second largest power station.

An aid worker in Somalia, the centre of the East Africa drought crisis which has hit 12m people, tells Channel 4 News he fears “death on an epic, unimaginable scale” if more is not done.

The most radical overhaul of European fishing laws in 40 years has been unveiled in a bid to give hope to struggling trawler fleets.