Environment

Motorists in India could soon be driving about in vehicles powered by waste left over from whisky distilling after a pioneering Scottish biofuel company signed up for a joint venture with one of the country’s renewables firms.

Attempts to save wildcats raise complex and morally tricky questions, writes Jonny Hughes.

We all know the importance of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst effects of climate change – that has been clear for a while now. What is becoming increasingly apparent is the extent to which this offers an economic opportunity for Scotland.

The company behind a major green energy scheme that will use water from Loch Ness to create a giant “rechargeable battery” is planning to develop two new similar projects at Loch Awe and Loch Tay.

We have 12 years to save the world. And no, this isn’t a job for ­Jason Bourne, Jack Bauer, Lara Croft or Ethan Hunt. It’s not yet mission impossible but it has fast become mission critical for us all. And right now, the Scottish Parliament has the chance to play a starring role.

An investigation has been launched by Marine Scotland after reports of suspected illegal scallop dredging in the protected waters of the Firth of Lorn.

Scotland – once dubbed the only country to discover oil and become poorer – may have to leave some valuable reserves under the sea bed because of the need to stop climate change that is threatening the extinction of species, eventually including humans, writes Kenny MacAskill.

Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels and industry have risen by more than 2 per cent in 2018 to reach new record highs, scientists have said.

A call has gone out for blood donations as hospitals build up life-saving stocks in the run-up to the festive season.

The world’s most northerly population of bottlenose dolphins have been saved from potential oil pollution - after a campaign from a remote Highland village.

Our climate is rapidly changing with more frequent and more intense extreme weather events along with increases in global temperatures.

In Scotland, the average temperature has already risen by 1C since 1961.

Scotland may be small, but our natural environment is mighty and of global ­importance.

The sizzling summer temperatures sparked a surge in claims by households to deal with the impact of subsidence, figures from insurers show.

The dangerous-looking sawfish, a shark that uses its whiplike tail to stun prey and a giant ray that leaps out of the water have been named on a new danger list of strange and unique species facing imminent extinction.

EDINBURGH City Council will not set up  a seventh Air Quality Management Area (AQMA) in the Capital after an increase in harmful particle matter was blamed on the construction of a care home.

Almost one year after the end of the Great War, on 1 September 1919, an act of parliament established the Forestry Commission.

A SELF-EMPLOYED courier has admitted he is “concerned” about providing for his family in the run-up to Christmas after being forced to take time off work due to an injury suffered when he rolled his ankle on a pothole.