Environment

A Dundee farming pilot and an Ullapool woodland creation project are among the carbon capture projects playing a key role as Heathrow Airport becomes carbon neutral.

Revellers' tents transformed into catwalk clobber

An exotic new food is being prepared by scientists in Scotland – seaweed, writes Bill Jamieson.

CILT promotes excellence in professionalism, driving a transport and logistics ­sector that is fit for the 21st century. However, sometimes we have to take our hats off to the volunteers who ­lobby for the retention and development of our transport infrastructure – and the 25th anniversary of the ­foundation of the Friends of the Far North Line has allowed us to take stock of the group’s achievements, recorded in a recent commemorative booklet.

The new National Transport Strategy (NTS) for Scotland published earlier this month was greeted as a disappointment and a wasted opportunity by organisations with particular ­concerns about the all-encompassing climate emergency.

We need action on global warming, but Glasgow Cop26 climate change summit looks set to be expensive and absurd circus, says Bill Jamieson.

Plans that would see a remote island in the far north of Scotland become home to the UK’s first spaceport have come a step closer to fruition after a major funding boost.

A pigeon fancier who shot a sparrowhawk that swooped on one of his prize racers was spared jail yesterday after a sheriff said he had taken into account a defence submission that he had acted out of “affection” for the bird that was being attacked.

A new kind of gin made from peas has a negative carbon footprint.

Motorists need more incentives to leave their cars behind and take a greener form of transport like electric buses, writes Andrew Jarvis.

Plans to build a rocket-launching space port beside a vast tract of protected peatland in the Highlands have been condemned as “reckless” by environmentalists.

Despite a target for the public sector to stop buying fossil-fuel vehicles by 2025, some organisations seem to lack ambition, writes Dr Richard Dixon.

Christine Jardine MP is taking to the streets of Edinburgh this week to help monitor air pollution amid growing concern about its effects on our health.