Environment
July in Edinburgh, and residents are cleaning up after after torrential rain turned roads into rivers and…
Leave it to the wonks at DEFRA to come up with an answer to one of life's imponderables: what is the true…
A bit of good news from up North, after the pregnancy saga of Edinburgh Zoo's guest VIP (Very Important Panda…
He (or should that be "she") looks like someone who has had an unfortunate accident with a leaf-blower and a…
Edinburgh residents woke up this morning to find the city had reverted to winter snow conditions again.
With the crucial Council meeting tomorrow (Thursday 30th June) on Edinburgh's Trams the members of the…
Travel disruption is continuing across Scotland. Edinburgh was around -13C last night and the Met Office is…
Climate change will have a huge impact on health, via heat exposure and changes in distribution of vector-…
Theoretical physicist and broadcaster Prof Jim Al-Khalili is in conversation about his debut novel, Sunfall,…
When looking for signs of global warming, the melting of the world’s glaciers and ice sheets is often cited…
Glaciers lock up 10% of the world's freshwater. These great bodies of ice play an important part in the Earth…
Christiana Figueres last night received the prestigious Edinburgh Medal at the Signet Library in Edinburgh…
One of the events around climate change at the Edinburgh Science Festival (6-21 April) takes as its starting…
We all rely on the seas for their abundant food, mineral and energy resources and yet more than 90% of the…
As part of the IPCC week, the Royal Society of Edinburgh hosts a free interactive panel session on women in…
Malthus was right. There is not enough planet to sustain the growing human population, particularly given our…
This is a rare chance to hear from an array of global climate experts, who are here in Edinburgh for a…
A panel of experts will discuss ways in which the world might wean itself off fossil fuels in time to avert…
The oceans offer the potential for huge amounts of clean energy and Scotland and the UK are poised to be a…
Hosted at Edinburgh Centre For Carbon Innovation's low carbon hub hosts, the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas…