Climate pollution from the burning of rubbish in Scotland has almost doubled in five years, according to new data, with some ...

Grassroots organisations say Scotland’s £500m ‘just transition’ fund has been “captured” by corporate interests – including oil billionaire Sir Ian Wood.

Lochs in Orkney, the Highlands and the Outer Hebrides are among waters containing high levels of toxic pollutants with health risks known as ‘forever chemicals’, The Ferret can reveal. More than a ...

It’s a quaint museum in a coastal town whose aim is to educate Scotland about its rich maritime heritage. Housed within an A-listed Victorian building in Irvine, the Scottish Maritime Museum is a ...

Scotland witnessed a number of violent incidents last month. In Falkirk, a brick was thrown through a window of the Cladhan Hotel, the focus of heated demos for weeks after an asylum seeker housed ...

A senior Scottish Conservative controversially elevated to the House of Lords by Boris Johnson is under fire for agreeing to appear at an event organised by the UK’s “main climate denial group”. Lord ...

The Scottish Government’s green watchdog has been urging the Royal Navy to remove potentially radioactive waste from the UK nuclear bomb base on the Clyde to reduce the risk of leaks and pollution, ...

Dr Fiona Work, a former nurse, remembers December 2012 vividly. “I had gone to my friends and had a call saying that my house had gone under,” she says. “I had lived there for 25 years and there had ...

On a fine summer morning in the Brig, the popular Bridgend bar in Brechin, Scott and Amanda McNeill recall the events of October 2023, when the river South Esk rose over 20 feet during Storm Babet.

The level of drug-related deaths in Scotland has been persistently high in recent years, with the Scottish Government facing criticism about its attempts to improve the situation. When the annual ...