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Tom Bawden

@BawdenTom

Tom Bawden is Energy and Resources Correspondent for The Independent and Evening Standard.

A new cruise focusing on environmental threats to the Arctic sails through iceberg-littered waters
Europe

Cruising through the melting icebergs that could flood the world

The Greenland Ice Sheet is melting at a rate of 250 gigatonnes a year
News

Global warming is making the Earth tilt on its axis

Certain protein molecules have been found to be responsible for the ageing process
Science

Pill that could see humans living a decade longer moves a step closer

Vials containing engineered DNA
Science

'DNA factory' opens at Imperial College London

Microbes lie behind countless ecosystem services in soil
News

Soil crisis caused by climate change ‘may hit global food production’

Typical white dwarfs, like this one, have an atmosphere dominated by hydrogen and helium, light gases that float to the top and block the star from view
Science

Rare white dwarf will reveal secrets of star evolution

Kinba was developed by students and faculty at King’s College in London and is able to recognise faces as well as some speech
Tech

Kinba the robot lands job on reception at King's College

Birds occupy a dilapidated pier in Church Creek, Maryland
News

Sea levels set to ‘rise by more than a metre over next century’

A honey bee collects pollen on a wild flower on a farm in the Jordan Valley
News

Honey bees 'can communicate danger better than any other insect'

The new headquarters, at RAF Croughton near Milton Keynes, is due to be finished in 2017
Home News

US military ‘chooses RAF base in UK as site of new intelligence hub’

The aftermath of a suspected sheep worrying in West Sussex
News

Rise in sheep worrying blamed on careless dog-owning city dwellers

A peacock shows off to the relatively dowdy peahen
News

Female animals less colourful 'to avoid sexual harassment'

The snapping noise made by shrimps is used by many marine creatures to find food and shelter
News

Rising CO2 levels in ocean 'will muffle sounds crucial to marine life'

News

Rising CO2 levels in ocean 'will muffle sounds crucial to marine life'

The snapping noise made by shrimps is used by many marine creatures to find food and shelter
The North Sea oil and gas industries will benefit from the scrapping of petroleum revenue tax, but the renewable energy sector will get less support
News

Osborne accused of ‘climate-wrecking’ Budget after £1bn tax breaks

Parts of York flooded in December when the rivers Ouse and Foss burst their banks
UK Politics

Areas hit by heavy rainfall boosted by £700m Budget pledge

Turning oddly shaped fruit into energy could help tackle waste issues
News

Tomatoes unfit for sale 'could be turned into source of green energy'

Researchers said they witnessed ‘entirely new behaviour’ among storks nesting in Spain and Portugal
News

Storks give up migrating to binge on junk food in landfill sites

Researchers said they witnessed ‘entirely new behaviour’ among storks nesting in Spain and Portugal
News

Storks give up migrating to binge on junk food in landfill sites

Huntsmen take part in the Belvoir Hunt
News

Violence against hunt monitors 'could result in someone's death'

Up to 53 billion nurdles – the building blocks of the plastic industry – are said to escape from Britain’s manufacturing plants each year
News

British marine wildlife threatened by toxic plastic pellets, study say

Ramar the gorilla, now 47, is on drugs for his arthritis at Brookfield Zoo in Chicago.
News

Zoos filling up with geriatric animals as medicine boosts life expecta

The Drax power station near Selby. A watchdog estimates households are overpaying on energy by £1.7bn a year
Home News

Spam overload feared under plan to improve energy market

If the Hinkley deal collapses, it would leave a big hole in Britain’s electricity supply from the second half of the 2020s
News

Could the £18bn Hinkley Point power station deal really collapse?

Wroughton Solar Park in Wiltshire has been funded by green bonds
News

Grow green bonds to fund renewables, says City financier

Some of the 13 climate change activists celebrate outside Willesden magistrates’ court
News

Heathrow 13 climate change protesters avoid jail term

The demonstration forced the cancellation of 25 flights
Home News

'Heathrow 13' protesters expecting to be grounded in jail

Wroughton Solar Park in Wiltshire has been funded by green bonds
News

Grow green bonds to fund renewables, says City financier

Some of the 13 climate change activists celebrate outside Willesden magistrates’ court
News

Heathrow 13 climate change protesters avoid jail term

The demonstration forced the cancellation of 25 flights
Home News

'Heathrow 13' protesters expecting to be grounded in jail

The surge in sea levels in the coming decades will continue a trend that began around 1950, when levels began to rise
News

Seas 'could rise by more than a metre if global warming isn't tackled'

News

Seas 'could rise by more than a metre if global warming isn't tackled'

The surge in sea levels in the coming decades will continue a trend that began around 1950, when levels began to rise
A bulldozer compacts freshly dumped rubbish at a landfill site in Gloucester
News

Landfill dumps across UK 'at risk of leaking hazardous chemicals'

The tiny plastic fragments are used to texturise products such as toothpaste and face scrubs
News

UK Government urged to follow US example and ban plastic 'microbeads'

Sun shines through the trees during the autumn season in the New Forest
News

British trees at risk from ‘phony peach’ disease

Druridge Bay Northumberland looking north from Cresswell.
News

Open-cast coal mine 'will blight pristine stretch of north east coast'

Druridge Bay Northumberland looking north from Cresswell.
News

Open-cast coal mine 'will blight pristine stretch of north east coast'

Activists chained themselves to the tarmac at Heathrow with arm locks
News

Jailing Heathrow 13 'will lead to more disruption', experts say

Several groups sceptical about Europe and climate change are based at 55 Tufton Street
UK Politics

The house where Eurosceptics and climate change sceptics rub shoulders

The Laggan and Tormore terminal at Sullom Voe, Shetland
Business News

Glow on the horizon as Shetland’s gas is turned on

The biggest cluster of offshore wind farms in Europe lies off Grimsby
News

Grimsby being reborn as the renewable energy capital of England

Ben van Beurden said that Shell would seek approval for the deal from shareholders
Business News

Shell to cut 10,000 jobs as profits plunge by 80 per cent

Pet behaviourists are blaming wet winters for an increase in pet depression
News

Global warming 'could be causing dogs to become depressed'

BP chief executive Bob Dudley insists that the North Sea fields have a viable future into the 2050s despite a lower oil price
Business News

BP to axe another 3,000 jobs as oil price condemns it to a record loss

Rob Basto, 68, is the oldest member of the ‘Heathrow 13’
News

Jailing Heathrow protesters 'would be unprecedented attack on dissent'

Flood waters surrounding farm buildings in Somerset in January 2014. The rains led to significant flooding in Somerset, Devon, Dorset, Cornwall and the Thames Valley
News

Climate change has made floods more likely, says study

Over two thousand booths and exhibits will vie for the attention of 25,000 hunters attending the annual Safari Club jamboree
News

Outrage over ‘pay to slay’ auction in Las Vegas

A late blooming sunflower; exotic fruit such as grapes, apricots and peaches are now being grown in this country
News

Global warming means exotic fruits now being grown in Britain

News

Global warming means exotic fruits now being grown in Britain

A late blooming sunflower; exotic fruit such as grapes, apricots and peaches are now being grown in this country
Shell’s chief executive, Ben van Beurden
Business News

Shell shareholders vote for £33bn takeover of BG despite opposition

The Facebook server hall in the city of Lulea, Sweden. Data centres now consume about 3 per cent of the global electricity supply
News

Data centres 'to consume three times as much energy in next decade'

Julia Elizabeth King, Baroness Brown of Cambridge, DBE, FREng
News

Line motorways with wind turbines, says green energy advisor

Shell, which abandoned exploring for oil in the Alaskan Arctic last year, said that the deal with BG would reduce costs
Business News

Shell pushes ahead with $47bn BG deal despite tumbling oil prices

Shell, which abandoned exploring for oil in the Alaskan Arctic last year, said that the deal with BG would reduce costs
Business News

Shell pushes ahead with $47bn BG deal despite tumbling oil prices

65,000 jobs have been lost in the last 18 months in Britain’s North Sea oil industry
News

How falling oil prices will affect the UK economy

The Government cut its support for household solar panels by 65 per cent
News

Britain's renewable energy industry is about to 'fall off a cliff'

A boat cruises past icebergs that broke off from the Jakobshavn Glacier in Ilulissat, Greenland. The warmer temperatures that have had an effect on the glaciers in Greenland also have altered the ways in which the local populace farm, fish, hunt and even travel across land
News

CO2 emissions 'will delay next ice age by 100,000 years'

The Adelaide man was exposed sexually to chickens as a child
Science

Free-range chickens carry more parasites, study says

'The hollow cheering of success at the end of the Paris Agreement proved yet again that people will hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest'
News

Paris climate deal 'too weak to prevent devastating global warming'

Found dead on the island of Tiree, Lulu is thought to have died an excruciating death after becoming entangled in fishing rope
News

Lulu the whale’s death may mean the end for British orcas

Sir Philip Dilley felt 'at home' in Barbados
News

Floods chief fails to apologise for being in Barbados during crisis

The Fitzwilliam Hunt Gather for the traditional New Years Day Hunt
Home News

Fitzwilliam Hunt faces possible £20,000 fine over dead fox

A climate change protest
News

Climate change targets 'have huge implications for UK pensioners'

Leaders from 195 countries have agreed the first universal, legally binding deal to cut carbon emission
News

Climate change deal ‘obscures problems’

News

Army drafted in to protect Cumbria from flooding as Storm Eva strikes

News

Army drafted in to protect Cumbria from flooding as Storm Eva strikes

Hunger, drought and disease could affect millions of people, especially in southern Africa
News

Global warming 'will cause food shortages and mass migration'

Greyhounds race after a hare at the last Waterloo Cup coursing event in February 2005 near Liverpool
News

Hare coursing gangs terrorising farmers with illegal competitions

The treaty commits all the countries of the world, for the first time ever, to cut their carbon emissions
News

Four things you need to know about the Paris climate change treaty

Climate change activists campaigning to limit emissions with a red banner to symbolise a ‘red line’ on Westminster Bridge on Saturday
News

Government criticised for scrapping project to limit CO2 emissions

Climate change activists campaigning to limit emissions with a red banner to symbolise a ‘red line’ on Westminster Bridge on Saturday
News

Government criticised for scrapping project to limit CO2 emissions

$16.5 trillion will have to be found by 2030 if countries are to meet their reduction targets
News

$16.5trn: the cost of hitting climate change targets agreed in Paris

Barack Obama makes a statement on the Paris climate agreement in the Cabinet Room of the White House on 12 December 2015
News

Governments ratify historic new climate change deal

Two women dressed as polar bear hold a peace flag with an inscription reading "Climat" as the gestures a victory sign in front of the "Lion of Belfort" statue, also dressed as a polar bear, on the Denfert-Rochereau place in Paris.
News

Is it already too late to limit global warming?

Aerial view of a Greenpeace protest at the Place de L'Etoile during the COP21 World Climate Change Conference 2015, in Paris, France
News

World leaders agree to dramatically cut official global warming target

An installation at COP21 called the "solutions tree", where people are invited to post ideas and solutions to problems posed by climate change
News

Fatigue takes its toll as officials race to secure climate change deal

GWPF financial backer Sir Michael Hintze abseils down the Gherkin during a charity event in September
News

The wealthy backers behind the climate change sceptics

A young boy from a remote tribe in northern Kenya stands on a dried up river bed
News

African campaigners demand compensation for effects of global warming

Amber Rudd, the Energy and Climate Change Secretary, will play a key role at the summit
News

Amber Rudd's delicate balancing act in Paris

An art installation made with parts of Greenland's ice cap, in front of the Pantheon in Paris
News

Support grows for limiting warming to 1.5C amid claims 2C is not safe

Recycled plastic bottles pictured at the Grand Palais during the Solutions COP21 in Paris, France. Global leaders have until Friday night to finalise a strong deal on combating climate change
News

UN conference hears calls for far-reaching agreement at COP21 talks

François Hollande of France welcomes Narendra Modi of India on Monday
News

What we've learnt so far at COP21 – and what still needs resolving

Bank of England governor Mark Carney (L) and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg attend a meeting during the World Climate Change Conference 2015
News

Michael Bloomberg to highlight companies at risk from global warming

Funafuti atoll, Tuvalu’s most populated; the country’s population has declined by 15 per cent
News

Thousands flee Pacific islands on front line of climate change

Puffins, along with curlews, nightingales, merlins and kittiwakes, now feature on the RSPB’s Red List
News

Puffins and curlews among 20 new species to join endangered Red List

The San Fernando Valley Generating Station in Sun Valley, California
News

Richest 10 per cent ‘produce half the world’s CO2 emissions’

President Obama has said that when it comes to climate change, there is such a thing as being too late
News

If we don’t strike climate deal in Paris it'll be too late, says Obama

Puffins, along with curlews, nightingales, merlins and kittiwakes, now feature on the RSPB’s Red List
News

Puffins and curlews among 20 new species to join endangered Red List

The San Fernando Valley Generating Station in Sun Valley, California
News

Richest 10 per cent ‘produce half the world’s CO2 emissions’

President Obama has said that when it comes to climate change, there is such a thing as being too late
News

If we don’t strike climate deal in Paris it'll be too late, says Obama

Financial institutions are threatened with climate-related losses
News

Banks 'face threat from global warming'

Policemen fight with climate change activists at the Place de la Republique in Paris
News

Worldwide day of protest as leaders arrive for Paris climate summit

A woman holds a banner at the Global Climate March in Geneva, Switzerland, 28 November 2015
News

Groups attending Paris climate talks on what they expect from meetings

Former policeman and Angling Trust investigator Kevin Pearson casts a line
News

UK rivers hotbed of crime as gangs steal fish on a huge scale

The Government’s revised forecast for green electricity generation is now forecast to reach 46GW in 10 year’s time, rather than the 58GW the Government anticipated just over a year ago
News

Many green power stations planned for the UK 'will not be built'

Countries' proposed cuts to their carbon emissions by 2030 still puts the world on course for 2.7C of global warming
News

Everything you need to know about the Paris climate conference

'Our environment is not safe in his hands,' say Friends of the Earth
News

Government slammed after scrapping £1bn project to cut carbon emission

The Kilnsey Agricultural Show in Yorkshire is a community event that has taken place for over a hundred years
News

Nature 'most important for social cohesion'

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