Environment

An entire class of sixth year pupils were sent home after a muck up day got out of hand - with rotten fish reportedly left around the school building.

A major wildfire in Scotland could be one of the largest seen in the UK for years, according to firefighters.

McDonald's newly rolled out initiative to replace plastic straws with paper ones is being met with frustration from customers

It’s essential that we change the habits of a lifetime because we must do more on climate change and do it faster, says Tommy Sheppard

After Greta Thurnberg, a 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, lambasted British politicians over their inaction on climate change, Kenny MacAskill – not usually a fan of precocious youngsters – finds himself impressed.

When plans for a tourist development come complete with pastel-coloured artist’s impressions, scepticism is aroused. Thus it is with proposals for a new £30 million tourist development at Loch Lomond.

Stone age remains at Skara Brae and the Ring of Brodgar in Orkney are to be the focus of a new international initiative aimed at predicting how badly climate change will hit iconic landmarks around the world.

Greta Thunberg, a 15-year-old Swedish girl, impresses Hayley Matthews with her impassioned speech to a United Nations meeting on climate change.

A flagship ban on sending waste to landfill sites in Scotland by 2021 looks unlikely to be met, according to new research.

Every year the Scottish SPCA rescues ­thousands of sick, injured and orphaned wild animals with the demand for our services increasing annually.

Wild salmon catches in Scotland have crashed to their lowest levels ever recorded.

In her speech to MPs in the Houses of Parliament, printed in full below, Swedish climate change campaigner Greta Thunberg lambasted the UK for its ‘very creative’ carbon accounting as well as the expansion of the North Sea fossil fuel industry and the Westminster Government’s support for fracking.

Scots firms have hit out at the loss of lucrative wind farm contracts in projects north of the Border being lost to overseas firms.

A father has spoken of his shock after his children found a 7ft boa constrictor at his home.

Climate change and loss of habitat are responsible for major declines in Scotland’s moth populations over the past 25 years.

This is the incredible moment two lucky kayakers got up close and personal with frolicking baby porpoises in the River forth near Edinburgh.

A maritime museum is to stop calling ships and boats ‘she’ - to make them gender neutral.

A leading criminologist has warned that a spate of attempts to poison dogs in Glasgow parks and hiding nails in dog biscuits could be the work of a psychopath.