Tom Clarke

A new charge on some of the most polluting vehicles has come into effect in central London. It’s called the T-Charge, or “toxicity charge”, and affects most diesel and petrol cars registered before 2006. Drivers of these cars will now face an additional £10 charge when entering the central London congestion zone, but some motoring groups have said it…

If you are looking for signs of life elsewhere in the solar system you might not expect to start in North Yorkshire. But that is where the world’s experts on extraterrestrial life – the astrobiologists – have been gathering. Or at least they have been meeting deep under the North York Moors in a laboratory…

The sky might have turned a weird shade of sepia across much of the UK today, but the universe has shaken for reasons far more profound. Scientists have discovered that a cataclysmic collision between two neuron stars long, long ago created debris which we now know as gold. The announcement, which comes with the rather…

The government has unveiled its strategy for clean growth, with the aim of bringing greater energy efficiency to businesses and homes. But can it reduce our national carbon footprint enough to meet our climate change obligations by encouragement alone?

Now to some good news about green energy. The National Grid has announced that electricity powering UK homes and businesses across the summer was the greenest on record, with solar, wind and nuclear power creating more energy than fossil fuels. But there have long been complaints that renewable energy only works with massive public subsidies.…

At least 15 people were killed, and 20 have been reported missing, on Dominica in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria’s pass across that Caribbean island. In Puerto Rico, struck by Maria on Wednesday, 13 people died and the island faces months without mains electricity.  

A virtual flood has come to a valley in Derbyshire. As part of an arts festival in the Peak District, Dutch artist and designer Daan Roosegaarde has filled the landscape with LED light to reveal its geological and glacial history.

Scientists have used pioneering gene editing techniques to begin to understand the very earliest stages in the development of a human embryo. The research, being published today in the journal Nature, could in future help improve IVF treatment and even pave the way for the creation of stem cells to cure disease.

First Harvey, then Irma and Jose. Now it’s Maria’s turn. This year’s hurricanes are moving ferociously down the alphabet. And we are only half way through the hurricane season, the worst since 2005 . So is this cyclical or does climate change play a role in the severity of the storms?

Armed police have raided a house in Sunbury-on-Thames – while detectives are scouring CCTV to “chase down” suspects – after a teenager was arrested earlier today in connection with the Parsons Green tube bombing.

Renewable energy is having a moment: next week, the result of competitive auctions for contracts to provide clean electricity for the UK will be revealed, and they’re likely to show that the cost of offshore wind power is now cheaper than ever before. The new generation of wind farms will be able to produce more…

New cars are facing tougher emissions tests from today. The “real-world” requirement is designed to stop manufacturers from cheating results after the Volkswagen Group fitted software to diesel models which manipulated emissions readings in America.

Heavy monsoon rains have deluged India, Bangladesh and Nepal in the region’s worst flooding in years. More than a thousand people have died and millions are homeless.

Just days before this massive storm slammed into Texas, President Trump scrapped a raft of federal flood protection standards which Barack Obama had introduced: measures which would legally have to take into account the impact of climate change.

Tom Clarke is in South Carolina for the totality of the solar eclipse.