Environment

  • 24 Nov 2010

    Channel 4 News scooped two prizes at the Foreign Press Association awards: for Nick Martin’s investigation into Mexico’s missing children and Lindsey Hilsum’s report on rare earth minerals in China.

  • 4 Nov 2010

    The views of veteran environmentalist Stewart Brand and author Mark Lynas feature in a film running tonight on Channel 4 at 9pm. “What the Green Movement Got Wrong” will be followed by a live studio debate chaired by yours truly. Yes, that’s right, subtitle : “Krishnan juggles another hot potato”

  • 18 Oct 2010

    A 10-mile-long barrage across the Severn Estuary to generate tidal power is to be scrapped as part of the Coalition’s first major policy plan on powering Britain to 2025 and beyond, writes Tom Clarke.

  • 23 Sep 2010

    Most scientists agree that the world is getting hotter due to climate change, yet there remains little agreement on the solutions.

  • 2 Sep 2010

    After months of hype the Copenhagen climate change summit took place in December 2009 but resulted not in a binding deal between the world’s leaders, but an “accord”.

  • 6 May 2010

    Science Correspondent Tom Clarke reports from the Canadian Arctic, where scientists are investigating ocean acidification – one of the least publicised but most worrying effects of climate change.

  • 8 Apr 2010

    What does it feel like to sleep on an ice block floating on top of 200 metres of ocean? Channel 4 News Science Correspondent Tom Clarke blogs from his tent in the Arctic.

  • 31 Mar 2010

    The Copenhagen summit took place under a cloud of sceptism after leaked emails appeared to show UK scientists exaggerating the threat of climate change.

  • 18 Jan 2010

    The cracks in India’s underground coal fires

    A week after returning from Jharia the evidence of my handkerchief was that there was plenty of coal dust still to emerge from my respiratory system. Our team had just returned from a shocking sight, the burning coalfields near India’s coal capital Dhanbad. It was undoubtedly a form of hell.

  • 6 Dec 2009

    Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum reveals how the growing market for green technologies is polluting parts of China.

  • 1 Dec 2009

    Channel 4 News spends a week in Brazil and finds an emerging economic power house approaching environmental crossroads.

  • 30 Nov 2009

    If every home in the UK was properly insulated carbon emissions would drop by 3.8 million tonnes. But can ageing British housing stock keep up with the green revolution?

  • 30 Nov 2009

    A threat to civilisation or a natural cycle in the life of planet earth? Although the scientific consensus is that man-made global warming is with us, there are still prominent deniers in the debate.

  • 30 Nov 2009

    Hailed as both climate saviour and food stock stealer biofuels are one of the most controversial technologies in the fight against greenhouse gases. Do our experts think they are the answer?

  • 30 Nov 2009

    In order to keep many businesses running computers must be cooled. But that comes at a price for the economy and the environment. So can companies continue to keep cool?