Sustainability & Environment

From Patagonia to MicroScooter, these businesses are giving back

Why is a small Highland community which has reaped the financial benefit of five windfarms, now saying no to the eight more proposed?

Forest fires and industrial fires are happening a lot more often nowadays, causing many issues for people, companies and the environment. Forest fires and industrial fires are not rare anymore

It was the subject of one of Norman McCaig’s most famous poems that hints at the injustice the area experienced through oppression and depopulation.

Calls to hold an EGM at a troubled community buyout scheme in the Outer Hebrides will be reviewed, with an alternative proposal put forward to reform its governance

A new Scottish Government campaign will highlight installing heat pumps among the most impactful actions people can take to reduce carbon emissions.

How to bring the wealth from the rush of onshore wind to Highlands communities is one of Scotland’s biggest clean energy questions. Some answers here.

Campaigners are calling for the Scottish Government to increase the ability of communities to influence planning decisions for onshore wind.

A green entrepreneur has come up with a big idea, he calls “nature prosperity pump”, using woodland creation to drive a new wave of timber affordable houses

Where are the clean energy jobs in the Highlands? The boom might not yet have happened, but there are signs of promise at the freeport – just no rush

Landowners now face tighter controls on what can be shot

It’s understood that members of SnBM are to meet with the Health and Safety Executive on Monday

The sole shareholders of Fergusons, CMAL and Calmac are the ministers of the Scottish Government. As such they hold all the power and the responsibility to ensure these organisations are managed responsibly and efficiently

Oil major underlines profitability of operations off Scotland amid upheaval in industry

The eagle had been relocated from the Outer Hebrides to the Borders

The future of the Scotland’s offshore wind industry is facing turbulent and strong headwinds unless both the Scottish and UK Government take seriously their responsibilities to the sector and its workers, says Herald columnist Roz Foyer

Scotland’s decisions on Rosebank will shape not just our climate future, but the human rights consequences tied to the companies set to profit from new fossil fuel expansion, says MSP Mercedes Villalba

A cold February dawn, a crying newborn and the glow of the Snow Moon combine to create an unexpected moment of peace in the early hours of a Scottish island, says Elle Duffy

Now celebrating its 25th anniversary, All-Energy will once again unite global experts, academics and renewables innovators in Glasgow from May 13-14 to advance the aim of net-zero and a more sustainable future for all

The trail was made without the land managers knowing – or with any authorisation

One of the largest woodland creation schemes ever approved in Scotland has been given the go ahead in Perthshire.

The controversial Rosebank oil field project has won a fresh vote of confidence from leading North Sea oil firms

Shares in SSE surge as heavyweight wins praise for scale of investment in Scottish power lines

Edinburgh City Council has announced its parking charge rise initiative has missed its proposed target, with residents shifting to more sustainable transport options.

The planned AI data centre in the South Gyle area of Edinburgh has been rejected today at a meeting despite officers previously recommending its approval

At the Offshore Wind Conference in Glasgow, one hot topic stands out – the need for interim charging reform. But the UK Government isn’t budging.

Ronnie, Edinburgh Zoo’s much-loved Rothschild’s Nubian giraffe, has died aged eight after a short illness. Visitors and keepers mourn the conservation icon.

Edinburgh’s Voi e-bike hire scheme expands into new areas, growing to 700 bikes as demand surges past 185,000 trips since launch.

Edinburgh Leisure has won the 2026 Green Apple Environment Award for its food waste composting scheme, leading sustainability in Scotland’s sport and leisure sector.

New figures released by the local authority reveal that £1,050,780 was paid by motorists whose cars breached the emission regulations.

For children who have found attending school a daunting prospect, regular visits to Muirfield Riding Therapy have inspired newfound confidence and a sense of wellbeing, discovers Kim McAllister

Island leaders say Scotland’s renewable energy ambitions will stall unless investment catches up with the infrastructure deficit facing Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles.

Edinburgh becomes the UK’s first city to install hybrid solar lighting in parks in a bid to reach net-zero climate goals and make parks safer.

The Tarras Valley Nature Reserve said that woven grass nests, believed to have been made by tiny harvest mice, had been found.

Amid Rum’s wild beauty, it’s the simple view from home — three trees and a shifting sky — that grounds Elle Duffy through every season.

WATCHING your garden grow would be time-consuming and dull. But watching television shows about things growing in gardens is fascinating for legions of otherwise decent ratepayers.

It has survived for 175 years through Glasgow’s industrialisation, the Clydeside Blitz and Ash Dieback

New training initiatives and industry partnerships designed to help plug Scotland’s yawning skills gap in the wind farm sector are set come on stream within months.

Water bills in Scotland will be £107 cheaper than in England and Wales, despite a hike of 8.7% by Scottish Water.

The Scottish Government’s flagship Climate Change Plan “prizes ideology over science” and should be withdrawn and redrafted to include nuclear, industry bosses have said.

Tesco has suspended supply from a Skye salmon farm while it investigates footage showing live fish being left to suffocate.

Deciding to become a vegan is a good moral choice.

Humza Yousaf has urged the UK Government to reject a renewed application for North Sea drilling due to the owner of the field’s ties to illegal Israeli settlements

The UK Government expects to decide “soon” whether to approve a Chinese firm’s plans to build the UK’s largest wind turbine manufacturing facility in Scotland but has to consider security, the trade minister has said

Scotland’s previous deindustrialisation offers lessons on how to avoid repeating “past mistakes”, a Commons committee has concluded

Residents are being invited to help bring a splash of colour to their community by planting flowers.

A new project created by the University of Edinburgh, is giving more than one million pupils free access to geography materials.

Edinburgh’s Royal Botanic Garden has landed nearly £500k in major £5.2m drive to restore Scotland’s threatened nature

Whether it’s for my health or the planet’s, there’s no doubting that less meat is best. So, why is the Scottish Government making it clear?

Introducing Constance, Maude, and Alma who arrived from the Netherlands earlier this month.

Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is set to begin work at the site