The government says putting nuclear power at the core of the UK's draft energy bill will cost consumers an extra £100 per year. But what if the nuclear industry refuses to build new plants here?

The seas off the coast of Peru are some the richest and most diverse in the world. But in recent weeks both Peru's seabirds and dolphins have been dying at an alarming rate, writes Tom Clarke.

Channel 4 News Science Editor Tom Clarke joins scientists flying into the heart of the incoming storm front on a mission to explain exactly what drives the worst of our all-too-familiar storms.

Scientists at a leading agricultural research institute send an open letter to anti-GM protesters pleading with them not to destroy "years of work".

Breast cancer is not one disease, but 10, according to the largest ever genetic analysis of breast tumours writes Science Editor Tom Clarke.

With a government-commissioned report backing the resumption of shale gas drilling in Lancashire, Channel 4 News considers the pros and cons of fracking.

Swiss drug company Roche is facing renewed critiscism over its failure to release full research data on its drug Tamiflu, widely stockpiled by governments to combat the 2009 swine flu pandemic.

A UK company has developed a strain of genetically modified mosquito that could drastically reduce diseases like dengue fever. But are Florida's residents prepared to trial the GM insect in Key West?

The flare on the Elgin gas platform in the North Sea is still burning, its operator Total confirmed to Channel 4 News, increasing the likelihood that the gas leak may ignite.

Film director James Cameron's seven-mile descent to the deepest crevice of the ocean is harder and riskier than space travel, scientists tell Channel 4 News.