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Edinburgh Airport: Verdict as new Gatwick runway approval signalled

Police officers remove a climate activist protesting against the Rosebank oil field project in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland, outside the InterContinental London Park Lane in London in October. Picture: Daniel Leal/AFP via Getty Images

Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas permissions scrapped by courts

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A local community in the Highlands has agreed to explore the purchase of some or all of the 513-acre Bunloit estate by Loch Ness.

Loch Ness community bid to save 513-acre Highlands estate

North Sea oil and gas projects are facing legal challenge (Picture: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire)

Greenpeace wins court challenge right against two oil and gas fields

Where the parties stand on the issue they’re not talking about: climate change Richard Dixon

The UK was among 67 countries to sign the UN's new high seas treaty on its first day (Mario Tama/Getty Images)

UK signs new ocean treaty but net zero u-turn 'already undermining it'

Exclusive Major pension fund condemned over 'destructive' fossil fuel investments

Climate activist Greta Thunberg is carried away by police officers after taking part in a protest in Malmo, Sweden, on July 24 (Picture: Andreas Hillergren/TT News Agency/AFP via Getty Images)

Greta Thunberg's decision to cancel Book Festival event was a mistake

Greenpeace activists on the roof of Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's manor house in Kirby Sigston

Greenpeace activists scale Sunak’s manor house in protest at oil drilling

SNP MSP and Minister for Independence Jamie Hepburn

Readers' Letters: Independence Minister wrong about Brown and Vow

A minke whale, as the loud noise made by deep sea mining could pose a grave danger to whales and other sea creatures that use sound to communicate, scientists have said. Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Deep sea mining could threaten whales and dolphins, scientists warn

Duncan Ferguson and Darren Ferguson patrol the touchline during Forest Green Rovers v Peterborough. Pic: Laurence Martin

Duncan Ferguson: Inside ex-Everton striker's first Forest Green home game

Eco-entrepreneur Dr Jeremy Leggett is the founder of Highlands Rewilding, a for-profit company aiming for 'nature restoration and community prosperity through rewilding' and ethical profits for it mass-ownership shareholders

Rewilding firm could take on derelict city sites for restoration

The Tayvallich Estate is on the market for just over £10m with green entrepreneur Dr Jeremy Leggett now given until February 28 to raise the funds. PIC: Strutt & Parker.

Green entrepreneur aims to raise £21m to help buy third Scottish estate

A 'historic' global deal to safeguard nature has been agreed at the United Nations biodiversity summit Cop15, with countries pledging to protect 30 per cent of the world's lands, seas, coasts and inland waters by 2030 as part of a new plan to halt loss of species and reverse declines. Picture: Ilona Amos

Cop15: Warning that historic '30 by 30' deal could fail to stop mass extinctions

The management of grouse shooting estates must change because of climate change (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Why management of shooting estates must change radically – Dr Richard Dixon

Liz Truss keeps a firm hold of her glass during her speech

Like her glass, Truss needs to take a firm grip of the books - and her party

Protestors heckle Prime Minister Liz Truss during her keynote speech at the Conservative Party Conference 2022 in Birmingham.

Greenpeace protestors heckle Liz Truss during keynote speech

Prime Minister Liz Truss delivers her keynote speech at the Conservative Party annual conference

Liz Truss vows she will 'get through the tempest' as protesters disrupt speech

Liz Truss during a hustings event at the Holiday Inn, in Norwich North, Norfolk. Picture: Joe Giddens/PA Wire

Greenpeace vows legal action to delay Liz Truss North Sea oil plans

The scheme will reduce waste and plastic pollution, preserve marine life and support local communities.

Revolutionary 'fishing net' recycling project to help reduce plastic-SCOT

Despite operations like this most plastic waste ends up in landfill or being burned (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Recycling is being used to greenwash the damage plastics are causing to planet

Boris Johnson may have lost the faith of farmers (Picture: Paul Ellis/Getty)

Farmers need help, not a ‘foustie neep’ - Andrew Arbuckle

Protesters outside the Queen Elizabeth building in Edinburgh for the Stop Jackdaw rally. Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Campaigners threaten legal action after gas field approved in Scottish waters

Dr Andy Steiger, Author of Reclaimed

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Shell has revealed record first-quarter profits thanks to soaring oil and gas prices in an update set to further fuel demands for a windfall tax on the sector.

Shell reveals record first quarter profits as calls for windfall tax grow

Pic: Kirsty Brown

Dundee's The Little Green Larder asks customers not to forget eco-friendly shops

Gentoo penguins have been found on Andersson Island in Antarctica for the first time - an area that would once have been too cold and icy for the species to thrive. Picture: Tomás Munita/Greenpeace

Watch: Penguins set up home in new Antarctic regions as climate change melts ice

The COP26 declaration aims to stop the same of fossil fuel powered vehicles by 2040, but leading nations and car manufacturers have failed to sign up. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty

COP26 vehicles deal stuck in first gear as US and China steer clear

Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said he has done more for the environment than the Scottish Greens.

'I've done more for the environment than Scottish Greens ever have', says Davey

Patrick Harvie speaking at a COP26 event in Glasgow.

'Greens don't have same position as SNP' on drilling oil and gas

Rainbow Warrior moored at King George V Dock in Glasgow earlier on Tuesday. Picture: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire

COP26: Anger at second Erskine Bridge closure as Rainbow Warrior leaves Clyde

The instantly recognisable Rainbow Warrior is heading for the River Clyde.

COP26: Rainbow Warrior plots a course for Glasgow summit venue

Police officers remove an oil-splattered statue of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made by artist Hugo Farmer and installed by Greenpeace activists at Downing Street

Oil-splattered statue of Boris Johnson in Greenpace Downing St protest

The days of North Sea oil and gas are numbered (Picture: Andy Buchanan/WPA pool/Getty Images)

North Sea oil industry needs to start contemplating its demise – Scotsman says

Beldorney Estate near Huntly will be the first piece of land owned by the new company, which is being set up by climate change pioneer Jeremy Leggett.

'Insane inequalities' in land ownership tackled with £10 shares in rewilding

Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk. Picture: Oli Scarff/Getty

New generation of nuclear reactors would be ‘backwards step’

Work is underway to prepare the site of the COP26 climate summit at Glasgow's SEC campus. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Revealed: COP26 ‘sustainability’ advisor’s ties to fossil fuel firms

SEC Armadillo. Venue for COP26. Picture: John Devlin/JPIMedia

Revealed: 'Shocking' carbon footprint of COP26 venues

A Greenpeace boat alongside the BP-chartered Transocean 'The Paul B Loyd Jr' rig en route to the Vorlich field in the North Sea. Picture: Greenpeace

Greenpeace challenge over North Sea oil drilling 'opportunistic', court told

The North Sea oil industry could expand into the Cambo field off the west coast of Shetland. Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto

Development work at proposed Cambo oil field site delayed until next year
Development work at the site of the proposed Cambo oil field has been delayed until next year, it has been confirmed.

Food tsar Henry Dimbleby

Tough choices in Dimbleby’s food strategy for nation

Beldorney Castle and Estate near Huntly, Aberdeenshire, which has now been bought by social entrepreneur and climate change pioneer Jeremy Leggett. PIC: Contributed.

Second Scottish estate bought up by climate change pioneer

UEFA has said that “law authorities will take the necessary action” for what it called a “reckless and dangerous” act (Photo: Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images)

‘Several people’ injured after Greenpeace protester parachutes into stadium at F...

A Greenpeace protester flew into the stadium ahead of France vs Germany at Euro 2020. Photo: Getty Images

Watch 'reckless' Greenpeace Euros parachute stunt

Solar power pioneer Jeremy Leggett at home on the Bunloit Estate near Loch Ness. PIC: Contributed.

Solar power pioneer to sink £4m into rewilding Scotland after company sale

Oil rigs in the Cromarty Firth in 2016 after price falls saw workers lose their jobs as production slowed (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Oil workers need a plan for a 'just transition' to other jobs– Dr Richard Dixon

A Geman-registered supertrawler was forced to move on after being targeted by Greenpeace activists while fishing in a marine protected area off the east coast of Scotland

Activists board supertrawler in protest against against damaging fishing

The Eurostar Ski Train ferries 24,000 holidaymakers to the Alps every winter

The campaign to save the Ski Train - and what it could mean for Scotland's snows...

The Bunloit Estate near Drumnadrochit will be rewilided under the ownership of solar energy entrepreneur Jeremy Leggett who aims to work with local people to promote biodiversity and lock-up carbon on his new property. PIC: Jeremy Leggett.

Highland estate bought by green entrepreneur to fight climate change and create ...

Air France-KLM has sought more than £5 billion in state help. Picture: KLM.

European airlines serving Scotland seek total £9bn bailout

Greenpeace activists have blocked the entrance.

Barclays on Edinburgh's Princes Street blocked by climate activists

Greenpeace of activists at the headquarters of BP in St James' Square, London. Picture: Greenpeace.

Greenpeace members block BP's UK HQ as new chief starts work

The UK Government is considering measures to help struggling airline Flybe (Picture: Pete Byrne/PA Wire

UK Government’s Flybe rescue package better be worth it – leader comment

The report warns of the dangers posed to marine life by 'ghost' fishing gear. Picture: Thinkstock

‘Ghost’ fishing gear worst plastic threat to marine creatures

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Scotland has failed to meet its latest target for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the latest official figures show. Picture: John Giles/PA Wire

Fail: Scotland misses climate target

Pro-independence protesters with Scottish Saltire flags (top) march for Scottish independence. Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images

Yousaf: Growing popular support for Yes the only way to Scottish independence

Nadine Dorries. Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

SNP MP cleared of bullying Nadine Dorries