Scotland's national tree, the Scots pine, is under threat despite surviving since the last Ice Age. Trees for Life has now launched a new campaign, reports BRENDAN MONTAGUE
… Appeal to save ice age heritage of Scotland's national tree Brendan Montague | 20th September 2017 News Trees Scotland Pine Campaign 405303.jpg Scotland's national tree, the Scots pine, is …
Aspen trees are one of the most important in Scotland, yet due to deforestation and deer its population is falling. ALAN WATSON FEATHERSTONE reports on how Trees for Life are working to help the Aspen tree.
… breakthrough for threatened aspen trees in Scotland Alan Watson Featherstone | 13th November 2017 News Aspen Scotland Trees For Life Deforestation … Aspen trees are one of the most important in Scotland, yet due to deforestation and deer …
A Greenpeace investigation has exposed the massive efforts of global food and drink giant Coca Cola to defeat popular proposals to require deposits on single-use plastic bottles, writes Maeve McClenaghan. In fact, deposit schemes are working fine in many countries in which the company operates - it's a simple case of corporate profit before environment, oceans and wildlife.
… Waste Pollution Corporations Politics UK EU Scotland Oceans coca-cola-beach-cut.jpg A … plans for a new bottle collection scheme in Scotland designed to reduce plastic waste, … being considered by other countries including Scotland. But major drinks companies, …
In 2020 the fate of Devon's River Otter wild beavers will be decided. With Chris Packham backing the campaign to save the species and the protection of beavers into Scotland recently getting the go-ahead, the outlook is bright for the species.LAURA BRIGGS reports
… species and the protection of beavers into Scotland recently getting the go-ahead, the … After an absence of 400 years, beavers in Scotland have been formally recognised as a … carefully. "Legal protection of beavers in Scotland will allow populations to expand and …
The new Index of Sustainable Economic Growth shows there is a shift to strike a healthier balance between support for the economy, and care for essential social and environmental systems. But can it ever replace GDP as a measure of progress? JAMES CURRAN explores the idea
… - it's certainly time to go beyond GDP. In Scotland, the Government has adopted as its … country, with opportunities for all of Scotland to flourish, through increasing … a better way than GDP to measure and monitor Scotland's progress, but that's when things …
For over 40 years, Sea Watch Foundation scientists as well as volunteer observers all around the UK’s coast have been reporting on whales, dolphins and porpoises –collectively known as cetaceans – to inform Sea Watch’s huge database of records.
… Your chance to whale-watch in Scotland! Brendan Montague | 18th July 2017 News Whale Watch Nature Sea Scotland Holiday strathy point.jpg For over 40 … dolphins. They are calling on people across Scotland to get involved with this year’s …
Trees for Life is reintroducing red squirrels back to their former forest homes in Scotland - with great success. JACK ALEXANDER reports on the benefits of the project and plans for the future.
… | 7th November 2017 News Red Squirrel Scotland Trees For Life Highlands 405656.jpg … back to their former forest homes in Scotland - with great success. JACK ALEXANDER … to their old forest homes in northwest Scotland has been boosted by evidence of …
British firms lie deep at the heart of the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy, writes Amy Hall. Barclays, HSBC and the Royal Bank of Scotland have lent $800m to Energy Transfer Partners and its subsidaries, London-based Commercial Bank of China has loaned $120m, and RBS $250m, while HSBC and Barclays own over $110m worth of shares in project partner Phillips 66.
… Hall. Barclays, HSBC and the Royal Bank of Scotland have lent $800m to Energy Transfer … Barclays, HSBC and the Royal Bank of Scotland have lent $800 million to Energy … a DAPL project level loan. The Royal Bank of Scotland, which lent over $250 million to …
Will the UK keep Theresa May's promise to 'leave the environment in a better state than it found it' in the Brexit negotitions? Or is the government bent on the 'bonfire of red tape', including environmental protections, demanded by right-wing former and serving ministers? Viviane Gravey sets out four 'green lines' by which to judge the Brexiteers' true colours.
… in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Common rules limit regulatory … for example, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland have banned their farmers from …
Information from Colombia's National Hydrocarbons Agency shows that at least 43 new fracking concessions have been handed out to multinational companies including Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips and Drummond. These concessions affect over three hundred municipalities, in the departments of Cesar, Santander, Boyacá, Cundinamarca and Tolima. SEBASTIAN ORDOñEZ and DANIEL MACMILLEN VOSKOBOYNIK report.
… has already been banned in countries such as Scotland and Germany , and dozens of …
The whole idea of North Sea oil was to make Britain rich, writes Simon Evans. At least that's how it all began. But now ... it cost UK taxpayers a massive £396 million a year in tax breaks and subsidies to keep the industry alive last year. And there's no reason to think that's going to turn around any time soon.
… News Energy Oil Climate Change Finance UK Scotland graph-1.png The whole idea of North …
As the Brexit negotiations begin, a coalition of grassroots food and farming organisations today launch ‘A People's Food Policy' calling for England to develop a more progressive food policy in advance of leaving the EU. Scotland is already in the process of adopting national food policies and is currently developing a ‘Good Food Nation Bill', while England has yet to make any progress
… food policy in advance of leaving the EU. Scotland is already in the process of adopting …
Animal campaigners who have returned from investigating the torture of street dogs in Romania are calling for new legislation that will prosecute those responsible
… Leask 46, animal rescuer and author from Scotland. Known for the famous "Miracle" the …
We’re 55 million years too late for hydraulic fracturing to work in the UK, claims Professor John Underhill, the chief scientist at Heriot-Watt University. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
… Lancashire and the West Lothian Oil Shale in Scotland. The Weald basin of southern England … in Lancashire and West Lothian Oil Shale in Scotland, went through an additional period of …
A vicious cycle of climate change, cattle diet and rising methane has been revealed in a new scientific study: as temperatures rise, forage plants get tougher and harder to digest, and cause more methane to be produced in bovine stomachs. And with cattle numbers rising and methane 85 times more powerful a greenhouse gas over 20 years, that spells trouble.
… scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) and the …
The RSPB's annual Birdcrime report details the shocking levels of crime against birds of prey in the UK with many being deliberately and illegally killed. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports on what might be a bleak future for the UK's birds of prey.
… confirmed case in Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, where there is growing concern over …
Just imagine: gas for your cooking and heating made by composting home-grown British grass, writes Almuth Ernsting. What's not to like? Well, it would need almost all the UK's grassland to match our gas demand, leaving cows and sheep to starve or forcing them into sheds to eat foreign-grown feeds. And methane leakage could easily wipe out any climate benefit.
… on them. With 97% of England's and 90% of Scotland's species-rich grassland having been …
After years of pro-nuclear bombast from the Conservative Party, its 2017 manifesto hasn't got a single word to say about nuclear power, write Oliver Tickell & Ian Fairlie. Instead it announces a renewed focus on cutting energy costs, and a big boost for increasingly low-cost wind power; while both Labour and Libdems offer only weak, highly qualified support for new nuclear build. And so the great British 'nuclear renaissance' reaches its timely end.
… it wants no new nuclear power stations in Scotland; and Plaid Cymu leader Leanne Wood is … of wind projects in the remote islands of Scotland, where they will directly benefit …
A huge raft of environmental reforms is promised in the Labour Party's draft manifesto, writes Oliver Tickell. Among the highlights: a ban on fracking; a clean energy policy based on renewables and efficiency; no commitment to new nuclear power; to meet our Paris Agreement obligations on climate; to give companies a legal obligation to protect the environment; to retain all EU environment laws post-Brexit; and multilateral nuclear disarmament.
… to Leeds and Manchester, and then into Scotland, consulting with communities affected … for London authority. We will invest in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, too, … UK, with England as much as a priority as Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The …
Are the shortcoming of existing cattle TB tests soon to be exposed by a simple, clever blood test that has been waiting in the wings? The development may shine light on practical compromises in the extended, failing fight against TB in England - at huge tax-payers expense. Biologist TOM LANGTON looks at a growing dilemma in the world of bovine TB cattle testing
… creeps more slowly across England and into Scotland and Wales or the countries still … system releases bTB into Cumbria and Scotland . Blaming badgers The main political …
The scientific case for Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is now overwhelming. The bigger question is how can they be managed more effectively? HORATIO MORPURGO reports
… of a No Take Zone in Lamlash Bay, Scotland, just as they did off Lundy, England. …
Many eco-minded Brits are rightly worried about the prospect of a ‘hard Brexit'. But what if another ‘alternative' Brexit that delivered a Greener economy were possible? VICTOR ANDERSON and RUPERT READ of Green House have just delivered a new report on Brexit and trade from an ecological perspective. Here, they share their key findings with the Ecologist...
… England and Wales go ahead with Brexit but Scotland breaks away and Northern Ireland …
What do Mr Blobby, Spiderman and Dumbledore have in common? And Bez from 80s rock band Happy Mondays, local residents, farmers, students and solidarity groups from around the UK? These characters assembled for a climate carnival in Lancashire, reports LYDIA NOON
… aim was to transform an old gate-house in Scotland into an eco-living community. Those …