Water

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

For more than 60 years, it has been accepted that radiation, that is, nuclear radiation, is quite exceptionally dangerous.  In this lecture this question is re-examined and the answer is sho

Leave it to the wonks at DEFRA to come up with an answer to one of life's imponderables: what is the true value of nature? The short answer, outlined in a new report entitled the UK National Ecosystem Assessment, is that "nature is worth billions of pounds to the UK economy."

What nicer way to spend a summer morning than at the beach? The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) will be holding a beach clean at Cramond on Saturday 11th June from 10am-12noon, and all are welcome.

All hands on deck for this community clean-up of the popular, sandy Belhaven Beach. This volunteer event is being run by Surfers Against Sewage, with support from Barefoot wines, as part of a UK beach cleaning tour of 14 beaches between May and September.

Bathing season may have arrived late this year, but with hotter weeks expected, now is the time to consider what beaches to head for.

The programme for 2012 has still to be announced but expect over 200 educational and interactive activities for the wee ones, and lectures and talks for older heads in 40 or so venues across town.

Mention oil pollution and BP's disastrous oil gusher will be uppermost in most people's minds right now, but the energy-intensive - and hugely lucrative - tar sands operations in Western Canada hav

Talk by Patrick Holden, a part-time farmer, who has been involved in the organic movement since 1973.

Following on from the Marine Conservancy Society's recommendations for clean local beaches in its annual Good Beach Guide, Scottish ch

The Marine Conservation Society (MCS) has recommended 41 Scottish bathing beaches for excellent water quality in its annual Good Beach Guide. This is just over one third of the 109 tested and 3 less than it recommended last year.

Dr David King was until 2007 H. M. Gov's spokesperson on climate change, and is the author of The Hot Topic, the subject of Thursday's Edinburgh International Science Festival event. Would he be a bearer of better, or at least more encouraging news on the international frying and freezing front?