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Tom Bawden

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

Cruising through the melting icebergs that could flood the world

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

Global warming is making the Earth tilt on its axis

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

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

Vials containing engineered DNA

'DNA factory' opens at Imperial College London