Environment

Online woodland database VisitWoods is holding a Photography Competition. VisitWoods (which I've posted about…
Edinburgh and Glasgow councils today launched a campaign to have the UK High Speed Rail project extended to…
Edinburgh awoke today (Sunday 5th December) to another cold , wintry day - but thank goodness there has been…
Edinburgh Airport is warning passengers to check ahead with their airline to see if their flight has been…
The famed wit, Samuel Johnson, once said in his travels in Scotland with friend James Boswell in the 1770s,…
The full programme for the 21st Edinburgh Mela launched today, offering its usual enticing mix of world music…
The Historic Scotland Rangers Service has put out a call for volunteers to leap into action and assist with…
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…
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…
The Edinburgh Medal is a prestigious award given each year to men and women of science and technology who are…
This is a rare chance to hear from an array of global climate experts, who are here in Edinburgh for a…