Enviornment Archive

  • Pollution threat from Glasgow subway
    Sunday 19 May 2013

    Environmentalists are demanding urgent investigations into air pollution on the Glasgow subway after a snapshot survey by the Sunday Herald's New Era magazine discovered passengers were breathing in tens of millions of tiny metallic particles that might damage their health.

  • Giant firm tells Scotland to pay up
    Sunday 19 May 2013

    The £40 billion engineering giant, Babcock, is demanding up to £500,000 from the Scottish Government's wildlife agency because it opposed the company's plans for a major new freight terminal in Fife.

  • Machair under threat from rise in level of seas
    Wednesday 15 May 2013

    SCOTLAND's sensitive machair meadows could be put at risk by flooding as scientists predict global warming could cause sea levels to rise more than previously expected over the next century.

  • Concern about rising levels of beach rubbish
    Tuesday 14 May 2013

    RUBBISH on Scotland's beaches increased by 20% in a year showing anti-litter campaigns are now falling on deaf ears, according to a leading marine charity.

  • Rare pearl mussel at risk due to illegal poaching
    Monday 13 May 2013

    CONSERVATIONISTS have called for urgent action to curb illegal fishing that is threatening to push the freshwater pearl mussel into extinction.

  • Climate change due to hit animals
    Monday 13 May 2013

    A third of common land animals could see dramatic losses this century due to climate change, scientists predict.

  • RBS slammed for backing 'obscene' mountaintop removal
    Sunday 12 May 2013

    Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is under fierce attack for investing hundreds of millions of pounds in US companies which remove the tops of mountains in order to scoop out coal inside.

  • Climate change threat to UK's trees
    Friday 10 May 2013

    New pests and diseases emerging as a result of climate change are having a major impact on the UK's trees, a report has warned.

  • Work begins on wind farm opposed by Donald Trump
    Thursday 9 May 2013

    Work on a contentious offshore wind turbine development opposed by Donald Trump is under way.

  • Scotland signs marine energy deal with South Korea
    Monday 6 May 2013

    A partnership has been formed between Scotland and South Korea to develop marine energy in both countries.

  • Revealed: World Heritage quarry firm fined millions
    Monday 6 May 2013

    THE firm behind a controversial quarry extension planned near a Scottish World Heritage Site has paid out millions of pounds in penalties for breaking environmental laws.

  • Pesticides from salmon farms poison Scotland's lochs
    Sunday 5 May 2013

    Pesticides from 12 salmon farms have contaminated lochs around Scotland's coast in breach of safety limits, according to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa).

  • Coming to a park near Glasgow soon: the environmental wonders of the world
    Monday 29 April 2013

    Ambitious proposals for an £85 million wildlife park on land that has been derelict for 40 years have been released.

  • Salmon farms that shoot seals to be identified
    Sunday 28 April 2013

    A last-ditch attempt by Scottish ministers to keep secret the identities of salmon farms that shoot seals has been rejected by Scotland's freedom of information watchdog, Rosemary Agnew.

  • MoD ends Scottish uranium shell tests
    Sunday 28 April 2013

    THE Ministry of Defence has been stopped from test-firing shells made of depleted uranium in Scotland by public opposition.

  • New help for Scots bee farmers
    Friday 26 April 2013

    Help for bee farmers who have been affected by the recent bad weather has been announced by the Scottish Government.

  • Field of green: Scotland's first solar meadow opens
    Thursday 25 April 2013

    The country's first "solar meadow" has been officially opened.

  • Imports push up carbon footprint
    Wednesday 24 April 2013

    The UK's overall carbon footprint has grown by one-tenth in the past two decades, the Government's climate advisers have said.

  • Seal killing quota labelled 'pointless'
    Sunday 21 April 2013

    The head of Scotland's biggest salmon-netting company has branded legal limits on the number of seals that fisheries are permitted to shoot as "pointless".

  • 'Misleading' Trump wind farm advert to be banned
    Sunday 21 April 2013

    AN advertising campaign by Donald Trump, the US property tycoon, attacking Alex Salmond's support for wind farms, will this week be condemned as "misleading" by the UK Government's advertising watchdog.

  • Carbon capture research is hailed
    Monday 15 April 2013

    SCOTTISH scientists have uncovered vital clues on how to develop safe carbon capture technology by studying an ancient underground reservoir of CO2.

  • Sepa probe at coal-bed methane wells
    Sunday 14 April 2013

    AN allegation that explosive and highly-polluting gas is leaking from boreholes in southwest Scotland are being probed by the Scottish Government's green watchdog.

  • Concerns over opencast mine scars
    Sunday 14 April 2013

    The giant wounds on the landscape left by dozens of opencast coal mines across Scotland may never be healed under plans being considered by Scottish ministers.

  • Concerns over impact of wind farms on wild lands
    Saturday 13 April 2013

    CONSERVATIONISTS have raised concerns wind farms are rapidly shrinking the countryside after it emerged that the custodian of Scotland’s natural environment has not published details of the extent of wild land for four years.

  • Revealed: secret Scots fracking plans
    Sunday 31 March 2013

    An Australian energy firm has been accused of hiding plans to use the controversial technique of fracking to exploit shale gas under central Scotland.

  • Fires rage in Highlands and Islands
    Sunday 31 March 2013

    FIRE crews have been called to tackle a spate of wildfires that broke out across the Scottish Highlands and Islands.

  • Politicians are big on voluntary measures, there must be a cut-off
    Monday 25 March 2013

    Lang Banks will never forget the winter of 1981, when his household of six became 16.

  • Surge in complaints about wind farms
    Sunday 24 March 2013

    COMPLAINTS to local authorities about wind farm proposals have risen 15-fold in the last five years, according to figures from the Scottish Conservatives.

  • £1.2m to make toxic loch safe for 2014
    Sunday 24 March 2013

    TAXPAYERS are facing a £1.2 million bill to clean up a toxic loch in order to stage a single event at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games in 2014.

  • Highland turbine plans abandoned
    Friday 22 March 2013

    The company behind a controversial wind farm in the Highlands has decided to abandon the project in the face of the considerable local opposition.