Named: the salmon farms rapped over animal welfare
In the past the UK Animal and Plant Health Agency kept secret the salmon farms it censured on animal welfare grounds. Now it has changed its mind.
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Climate pollution from wind farms on peat ‘underestimated’
Wind farms on Scotland’s peatland could be doing much more damage to the climate than previously thought. The volume
Councils failing to tackle climate crisis, says report
Plans by Scottish local authorities to cut carbon pollution are “deeply insufficient” and will cause Scotland to keep missing climate
The FFS Show Episode 18: How Green is Scotland, and a scary quiz
The official FFS Show Halloween celebration podcast is finally here. Just four days before All Hallows Eve, we are looking
Revealed: the 43 peers entangled in big oil
As many as 43 members of the House of Lords have investments totalling millions of pounds and senior roles in
COP26 sponsors cause 350m tonnes of climate pollution
The 11 companies selected as “principal partners” of the COP26 climate summit caused more greenhouse gas pollution globally in 2020
Oil industry lobbied senior EU officials 568 times
Top-level officials from the European Commission have held 568 meetings with big oil lobbyists since 2015, according to a new
26 Voices: visions from across Scotland on our climate future
Over the last five days The Herald and The Ferret have published a series of in-depth reports ahead of COP26,
‘Radical action’ needed for Scottish Government to achieve Just Transition targets
The Scottish Government must take “radical action” on green job creation and ending fuel poverty if it is to achieve
Scottish Government missed climate targets in five of seven sectors
The Scottish Government has missed its targets on reducing climate emissions in five of the seven sectors set out in
Water ecosystems worst on record in latest green watchdog surveys
Scotland’s rivers, lochs, canals and burns are in the worst state on record, with more than 400 damaged by
Nearly 50 Scottish Water sites ‘unsatisfactory’, finds green watchdog
Nearly 50 sites run by Scottish Water including sewage and wastewater treatment are “poor”, “very poor” or “at risk”, according
Toxic particle air pollution tops pre-pandemic levels in a third of Scottish streets
Almost a third of Scotland’s streets have higher levels of toxic particle air pollution than they did before the
