Fracking: Can shale gas you make you rich?
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.
Fashion designer and campaigner Vivienne Westwood tells Channel 4 News that the Greenpeace campaigners detained in Russia must be released. She says they were trying to save the planet.
New footage has emerged of the moment Greenpeace activists were arrested by Russian authorites. 30 people have been held following their protest on a Russian drilling platform in the Arctic.
Russia has charged five Greenpeace protestors with piracy following a protest on an Arctic oil platform, Greenpeace says.
More than 300 people were killed when a powerful earthquake struck a remote part of western Pakistan. The quake also caused a mountain-like island to be formed in the Arabian Sea.
Fourteen Giant Panda cubs, born “artificially” at China’s Chengdu breeding centre, are shown to the public for the first time. Giant pandas are endangered with fewer than 1,600 living wild in China.
Greenpeace rejects suggestions its activists engaged in piracy when boarding an offshore oil drilling platform in the Russian Arctic.
Reports show the vicious Asian hornet is spreading through France and likely to cross into Britain. Channel 4 News looks at several non-native species that have been spotted in the UK in recent years.
The National Farmers’ Union confirms that a badger cull is underway in two pilot areas in the west country, but campaigners turn out to protest against what they call an “inhumane” measure.
Oh we do like to be beside the seaside – but without a change in the way seaside piers are maintained, rising costs put them at risk of being damaged, says a new report.
Hundreds of firefighters are deployed to battle a huge wildfire known as the “Rim Fire” that has already consumed 225 square miles of Yosemite National Park and shows no sign of stopping.
The recent heatwave has led to tens of thousands of fish dying in the UK’s lakes and rivers, with officials racing to save many more.
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.
In a move branded a “disgrace” by Friends of the Earth, Chancellor George Osborne unveils tax breaks for fracking in a bid to create the “most generous” regime for shale gas in the world.
A group of six protesters from Greenpeace are arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass after scaling London’s 72-storey Shard tower.
The UK’s biggest biofuel plant, turning wheat into eco-friendly petrol, opens on Monday. But its future could be in doubt as it may not be as green as first thought and could even worsen world hunger.