Tom Clarke | Sky News

Information

Location
London
Email
[email protected]
Follow on X
@t0mclark3

Biography

Tom is Science and technology editor, covering a range of stories including COVID, climate and how tech is transforming our lives.

Before joining Sky, he was at ITN for over 17 years, where he was science editor of ITV News and Channel 4 News.

Tom was nominated for a Royal Television Society award for his investigative reporting on Tamiflu.

He also wrote for the prestigious science magazine Nature. Before working in journalism, Tom studied entomology.

Articles by Tom Clarke

iStock file pic

Why whole genome sequencing can improve child cancer treatments

14 July 2022, Bavaria, Munich: An employee prepares a syringe with Bavarian Nordic's vaccine (Imvanex / Jynneos) against monkeypox at Klinikum rechts der Isar. Photo by: Sven Hoppe/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images

New Mpox strain 'most dangerous so far' and 'could spread internationally'

Environmental campaigner Sarah Finch (centre) outside the Supreme Court in London after justices ruled that emissions generated from burning fuel should be considered when granting planning permission for oil sites. Ms Finch challenged Surrey County Council's decision to allow planning permission for an oil well in Horse Hill, near Horley. Picture date: Thursday June 20, 2024.

Future of new oil and gas projects in UK thrown into doubt after landmark Supreme Court decision

Matt Hancock said blood testing could be used to ascertain if someone has already had the illness

Hopes a simple blood test could detect Parkinson's seven years before symptoms after AI breakthrough

A pied hoverfly. Pic: Will Hawkes

'Truly remarkable': Insect migration superhighway discovered

There were 645 heat-related deaths in Phoenix's Maricopa County last year. File pic: AP

World has been breaching key 1.5C threshold for the last year, scientists warn

Pic: PA
Infected blood campaigners meeting in Parliament Square in London ahead of the publication of the final report into the scandal. They will hold a minute of silence in remembrance of the people who have lost their lives because of this scandal. Picture date: Sunday May 19, 2024.

Prosecutions will have to wait despite so many facing criticism in blood scandal report

Doctor who gave infected blood treatment speaks out.

Doctor in blood scandal says patients infected with HIV and Hepatitis C is 'worst thing you can imagine'

A photo wall of victims of the scandal

Blood service collected donations from UK prisons despite infection risk warnings - inquiry

A climate protest outside the Scottish Parliament in 2023. Pic: Reuters

'Net zero isn't woke, it's a serious thing,' says outgoing head of UK climate watchdog

Rotten potatoes on a Lincolnshire farm

Extreme weather to become 'more intense' after 'exceptional year'

Arctic temperatures are rising four times as fast compared to the global average, causing chaos for wildlife which depends on the rapidly-melting ice Pic: AP

Melting Arctic ice caps helps predict UK heatwaves - as scientist reveals this summer's forecast

Grangemouth, Scotland's last remaining oil refinery

What PM's North Sea drill plan might mean for jobs - and the transition to net zero

The Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) taken by LEV-2 on the moon
Pic: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency/Reuters

Japan may have fluffed spacecraft moon landing - but mission was far from a failure

Beryl Bravo oil / gas production platform in the North Sea

Oil and gas vote a boost for PM - but won't help our energy needs

H-IIA rocket carrying the national space agency's moon lander is launched at Tanegashima Space Center in September Pic: Kyodo/via REUTERS

Japan hopes 'moon sniper' will complete 'precision' lunar landing today

FILE - A pump jack extracts crude oil at an oil field near wind turbines in Emlichheim, Germany, March 18, 2022. Most major countries are finding it easier to promise to fight climate change than actually do it. Experts tracking action to reduce carbon emissions say of the major economies only the European Union is close to doing what's necessary to limit global warming to a few more tenths of a degree. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)

Climate deal is historic - but possibly for the wrong reasons

An activist attends a protest at the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 11, 2023. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Sudani

The COP28 draft agreement in Dubai feels different - speculation abounds as to why

United Arab Emirates Minister of Industry and Advanced Technology and COP28 President Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber speaks during the United Nations Climate Change Conference COP28, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December 2, 2023. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky

Outrage at COP28 head's comments on fossil fuels is misplaced - and could be counterproductive

'Loss and Damage Fund' is a landmark - but it's taken 32 years just to get here