Tom Clarke Science Editor

Science Editor Tom Clarke's beat varies from the pharmaceutical industry to climate change.

Since joining Channel 4 News in 2003, he has covered energy and the environment in from the Arctic Circle, seen some of the world's most endangered whales in Russia's far East, and followed the growing pains of the UK's landmark Climate Change Bill.

Tom started out as a scientist studying insects in the America’s deep south. After leaving the lab, Tom trained in journalism in New York. He worked as a science producer for American National Public Radio before returning to the UK to work for the science magazine Nature.

The latest from Tom Clarke

Sci/Tech
Who will fund the UK's energy plans?
22 May 2012 Channel 4 News
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?
Sci/Tech / Peru
What is behind Peru's mass pelican and dolphin deaths?
20 May 2012 Tom Clarke
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.
Sci/Tech
Met Office 'rain plane' on course to chase storms
10 May 2012 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.