Enviornment Archive

A GROUND-BREAKING genetic test has been developed for Scottish wildcats that could help arrest its decline in the wild.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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).

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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