Environment

Parts of Scotland are getting 4G mobile phone network coverage for the first time as new masts are erected in some the country’s most remote places.

Sea ice can capture huge amounts of microscopic plastic pollution, transport it across the Arctic and dump it into the ocean as climate change causes melting, according to a new study.

Investors are being sought for a long-awaited renewables scheme on North Uist which will raise revenue for the island for the next 22 years.

Social media was abuzz over the weekend when a group of killer whales was spotted breaching in the Clyde. Numerous videos were posted online after thrilled passengers sighted the pod while travelling on a ferry between Gourock and Dunoon.

Millions of UK children worry over air pollution near their school, according to a survey.

Enthusiastic whale spotters have camped out along the Clyde coast, hopeful a pod of killer whales will make a reappearance.

Rare and unique seabirds are flocking to one of the UK’s most remote overseas territories now Scottish conservationists have concluded the world’s biggest ever rat extermination project.

Hundreds of dead sea birds have been found along the east coast with overfishing and the Beast from the East among the reasons behind their rapid demise, according to experts.

The name of the first polar bear cub to be born in the UK for 25 years will be chosen by the public.

Scotland’s population has risen for the eighth year in a row and now stands at its highest ever level, official figures have revealed.

According to an old biblical saying, a prophet is ­never honoured in his own country. Not so long ago, these words could have applied to John Muir, who was born 180 years ago tomorrow and rose to become a national hero in the United States after emigrating there with his family at the age of ten.

A “magic” mushroom mixture is being used in an innovative new plan to speed up revival of the ancient Caledonian Forest in the Scottish Highlands.

From the Forth bridges and Queensferry to the beaches of Portobello and ­Joppa, Edinburgh’s coastline communities have a proud heritage of distinct social and cultural traditions where a sense of community has endured.

The UK Government has been urged to revisit its decision to remove onshore wind projects from a key renewables scheme.

Scotland’s population has risen for the eighth year running with migration driving the increase, latest figures show.

As the RSPB Scotland points out, the disappearance of a fourth satellite-tracked eagle in a part of Perthshire that’s home to several shooting estates over four years is “highly suspicious”.

The risk of seabirds colliding with offshore wind turbines is less than half what was previously thought, according to a landmark new report.

Rescuers arrived to transport the marine mammal from the Grangemouth burn to deeper water at Blackness.