GAMEKEEPERS are calling on Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) to introduce licences to kill pine martens, or face losing the endangered capercaillie – the largest bird of the grouse family – from Scotland for a second time.
Protected whales and dolphins are abundant in waters around Orkney and the Pentland Firth proposed for renewable energy developments, according to a new report.
The Clyde bases that host Britain's nuclear bombs and submarines are plagued by widespread safety flaws, according to an internal Ministry of Defence (MoD) report obtained by the Sunday Herald.
The US oil multinational ExxonMobil has been fined £2.7 million for failing to report over 30,000 tonnes of climate pollution from a plastics plant in Fife.
A DEVELOPER behind a multi-million-pound golf course in St Andrews has claimed six wind turbines proposed for the fringes of the town would be the source of "immense and regrettable embarrassment".
A WILDLIFE charity is calling on ministers to introduce "a zero kill" policy for seals and afford them the same level of protection awarded to birds of prey.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has again missed hundreds of radioactive particles contaminating the beach at Dalgety Bay on the Firth of Forth, prompting accusations that it cannot be trusted to carry on monitoring.
A multi-million pound project that would have led to radioactive waste being buried along the North Ayrshire coastline has been abandoned in the face of protests by local residents and environmentalists.
19 February 2012
5 February 2012
5 February 2012
