MoD confirms potential Scottish bomb sites after Ferret revelations
Government names areas being assessed for new munitions plants after The Ferret uncovers hidden details in a botched FoI response.
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Campaigners call for COP26 delay to make it safe
Scottish climate campaigners have backed an international call for the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow to be postponed. A statement
Row erupts over ‘bat safe’ roofing membrane
A row has broken out over a bat-friendly roofing membrane which has been promoted as safe for the protected mammals
Foxes still chased by hounds and shot in public forests
Foxes are still being chased by hounds and shot in public forests, despite outrage about the practice when it was
Scottish Government attacked for COP26 ‘choreography’ with big oil
Climate campaigners have branded the Scottish Government “disgraceful” for consulting the oil and gas industry on “choreography around COP26” at
Environmental groups boycott events sponsored by fossil fuel firms
Scottish campaigners are backing a boycott of media events sponsored by “pariah” fossil fuel companies in the run-up to the
UK Government promoting climate programme alongside fossil fuel polluters
A UN climate programme the UK Government is using as a criteria to decide which companies can access COP26 is
Greens ‘sold out to the devil’ on fishing in pact with SNP
The Scottish Greens have “sold out to the devil” by failing to prevent fishing trawlers from damaging the seabed around
Strathclyde Pension Fund’s investments in fossil fuel increases ahead of COP26, claims study
Strathclyde Pension Fund’s (SPF) fossil fuel investment has increased by nearly £220 million in just one year, according to
‘We’re barred from COP26’: nuclear industry complains after rejected applications
The international nuclear energy industry has complained about being excluded from the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow — prompting environmentalists to
Cambo oil firm under fire over tax haven
The main developer behind the controversial Cambo oil field north west of Shetland is ultimately owned in an offshore tax
‘Persistent intimidation’: activists facing abuse from grouse shooting industry
Conservationists working to protect rare birds of prey claim they are being abused online and intimidated in the field by
Licences to kill: 115 Tayside beavers shot in 2020
The Scottish Government’s wildlife agency licensed the killing of 115 beavers in Tayside in 2020, sparking angry criticisms from