More people have been into space or climbed Mount Everest than have rowed across the Atlantic. But three Scots brothers began a yesterday mission to join this select group.
The targets set for Scotland’s deposit return scheme have been branded “utterly unambitious” by the environmental campaigners who pushed for recycling initiative to be introduced.
US president Donald Trump lashed out at 16-year-old climate activist Greta Thunberg, a day after she was named by Time as its Person of the Year, calling her selection "ridiculous."
Online retail giant Amazon supplies so much stuff to Bill Jamieson that his stockpile of cardboard boxes has taken over the garage and the garden shed, prompting him to consider taking radical action.
Scotland has a proud history of pioneering innovations that have changed the world. From television to anaesthetics, our everyday lives would be unrecognisable without a whole host of Scottish inventions and discoveries.
It is believed that mankind first emerged from the Olduvai Gorge in Kenya about 180,000 years ago. It took us about 175,000 years to discover the wheel and the written word (possibly two of our greatest inventions) in ancient Mesopotamia. It took another 4,750 years to harness steam which powered the Industrial Revolution.
A pre-Christmas promise to a disabled Kirkintilloch council house tenant and her family living in “appalling conditions” have been dashed by East Dunbartonshire Council.
At the time of writing, Venice is suffering its worst floods in 50 years, forcing the Italian Government to declare a state of emergency in the UNESCO world heritage site.
A rare mountain-top forest being planted in the Highlands will be the largest of its kind in Scotland and could provide new homes for iconic species such as the golden eagle, ring ouzel and mountain hare, according to conservationists.
When the use of steam power on Britain’s railways ended in 1968, the notion of heritage rail was unknown. No one foresaw the huge role that heritage railways would come to play in Britain’s railway scene today.
The climate emergency requires real political bravery and radical action to transform our economy, but it barely got a mention in the election campaign, writes Scottish Green Party co-leader Lorna Slater.
