A 13-year-old East Lothian girl is travelling to Geneva to speak at a United Nations event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
Scotland and the UK should not yet be boasting about their “world-leading” action to save the planet after Glasgow was selected as the venue for next year’s prestigious United Nations climate change conference, environmentalists are warning.
An Extinction Rebellion co-founder has been arrested for the second time in three days after trying to fly a drone near Heathrow Airport during an environmental protest, the group said.
The policing bill for a major climate change summit to be held in Glasgow next year could amount to "many tens of millions of pounds", Police Scotland has warned.
Fishing can become Scotland’s fastest growing economic sector within ten years if the UK leaves the EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) on schedule, the incoming head of the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation has said.
Edinburgh’s SNP-Labour council coalition has embraced a radical plan that would effectively eliminate all cars from the city centre, apart from those belonging to residents, writes John McLellan.
Earlier this year, the intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) published the most comprehensive assessment ever conducted on the global state of nature.
One of the biggest breakthroughs for fisheries in recent times is the increasing collaboration between fishermen and scientists in collating data on fish stocks.
