Environment

With food security and food miles increasingly on people's minds, and lengthy allotment waiting lists, the Edib

The Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh (RGBE) has announced that is launching a new foodie festival this Spring - Science on a Plate.

Friends of the Earth Scotland's popular, annual fundraising Ceilidh.

The Robert Fish Band will lead the dancing and there'll also be a local and organic bar and a fundraising raffle.

First Minister Alex Salmond has invited some of the world's top energy innovators at the World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi to come to Scot

The reports that the hugely unpopular Edinburgh trams project has caused the City Council to cut down some

The Royal Highland Show has been voted the top show in the UK by readers of a national farming magazine.

A special event at Edinburgh Bicycle Co-operative on Thursday marks the UN's International Year of Co-operatives in Scotland on Thursday.

It was a green christmas for most of the UK, with no snow falling in major cities.

This year's Christmas weather is shaping up to be very different from the heavy snowfall and icy conditions of last year.

What nicer way to burn off some Christmas calories than spending the morning at the beach?

The Winter Solstice, the point at which we are tilted furthest away from the Sun in Earth's Northern hemisphere, is at 5.40am on 22nd December in 2011.

The Pentland Hills Regional Park on the edge of Edinburgh is a great place for visiting throughout the year.

Edinburgh Zoo's celebrity guests, Tian Tian and Yang Guang, met their public today.  The breeding pair of giant pandas arrived in Edinburgh on 4th

The high winds in Edinburgh are now easing, with transport and schools expected to be back on a normal footing tomorrow. Bawbag is receding.

Edinburgh City Council has announced that Edinburgh schools will shut today at noon (Thursday 8 December 2011) due to the severe weather, with gale-force winds forecast later today.

Homemade delights and Christmas gifts to raise money for Scottish Seabird Centre.

Two giant pandas landed at Edinburgh Airport yesterday en route to their new home at Edinburgh zoo, with all the razzmatazz that you'd expect for a couple o

Scottish Natural Heritage’s Isle of May reported an increased numbers of visitors and a few unusual ones this passed season.

Edinburgh City Council voted to scrap plans to outsource rubbish collection in the Scottish capital.

Across the road from the Canongate Kirk is the Museum of Edinburgh and alongside it an A listed building that goes back to