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Climate change

The Culduthel Woods Group is a charity, run entirely by volunteers, which works to protect and improve the woodland (Picture: The Culduthel Woods Group)

Want to help Scotland prepare for its new climate? Here's what to do

The late Professor Stephen Hawking made clear that climate change could become an existential threat (Picture: Jemal Countess/Getty Images)
The late Professor Stephen Hawking made clear that climate change could become an existential threat (Picture: Jemal Countess/Getty Images)

All political parties need a serious plan on climate change – Scotsman comment

Heavy rain and flooding has caused serious damage to roads and other vital infrastructure in Malawi (Picture: Amos Gumulira/AFP via Getty Images)
Heavy rain and flooding has caused serious damage to roads and other vital infrastructure in Malawi (Picture: Amos Gumulira/AFP via Getty Images)

Deadly cyclone sees Malawi pay high price for our fossil fuel habit

The Thames Path 2040, by artist Alex Fefegha, is one of a series of AI-generated images looking at the urban landscape in a future where heavy rainfall will lead to flooding on -- part of a project with the New Real Observatory, a creative platform combining raw satellite data and climate modelling with AI processing engines which is run in a partnership between the University of Edinburgh, Alan Turing Institute and Edinburgh’s festivals
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The Thames Path 2040, by artist Alex Fefegha, is one of a series of AI-generated images looking at the urban landscape in a future where heavy rainfall will lead to flooding on -- part of a project with the New Real Observatory, a creative platform combining raw satellite data and climate modelling with AI processing engines which is run in a partnership between the University of Edinburgh, Alan Turing Institute and Edinburgh’s festivals
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Is AI a danger to human life or are ‘thinking’ machines man’s best friend?

Emergency services rescued a driver left stranded on the road leading into California's Death Valley National Park as the west coast of the US is hit with unprecedented levels of snowfall. Picture: AP
Emergency services rescued a driver left stranded on the road leading into California's Death Valley National Park as the west coast of the US is hit with unprecedented levels of snowfall. Picture: AP

All white now: Why America’s ‘golden state’ is shivering under a blanket of snow

When is International Women’s Day 2023?

Daria Khelsengreen relaxes during a summer heat wave on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, which has seen record-breaking temperatures in recent years (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
Daria Khelsengreen relaxes during a summer heat wave on the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, which has seen record-breaking temperatures in recent years (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Climate change is one reason why Scotland is drawing closer to Arctic nations

King Charles and The Queen Consort’s announce first State visit of their reign
King Charles and The Queen Consort’s announce first State visit of their reign

King Charles and Queen Consort announce first State visit

Kate Forbes, and the other SNP leadership candidates, should commit to drawing up a comprehensive plan to achieve Scotland's climate change targets (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)
Kate Forbes, and the other SNP leadership candidates, should commit to drawing up a comprehensive plan to achieve Scotland's climate change targets (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)

SNP leadership contest is an opportunity to get serious about climate change

Street artists Ciaran Globel and Conzo Throb paint a mural designed by Colin Li, 14, on a wall opposite the COP26 climate summit venue in Glasgow in 2021 (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)
Street artists Ciaran Globel and Conzo Throb paint a mural designed by Colin Li, 14, on a wall opposite the COP26 climate summit venue in Glasgow in 2021 (Picture: Andy Buchanan/AFP via Getty Images)

Scotland's cultural sector can help people connect with climate change

The vast expanse of wetland and peatland in Caithness and Sutherland is the largest of its kind in Europe (Picture: Getty Images)
The vast expanse of wetland and peatland in Caithness and Sutherland is the largest of its kind in Europe (Picture: Getty Images)

How Scotland's peatlands can soak up even more carbon from atmosphere

Climate change activists are taking to the courts as well as the streets (Picture: Omer Messinger/Getty Images)
Climate change activists are taking to the courts as well as the streets (Picture: Omer Messinger/Getty Images)

How legal action is being used to spur action on climate change

Empty tomato trays at a Tesco Express store (Picture: Zoe Linkson/PA)
Empty tomato trays at a Tesco Express store (Picture: Zoe Linkson/PA)

Food shortages are a warning of what life could be like in the near future

Viewed from afar, humanity's efforts to address climate change appear to be a sign of collective insanity (Picture: Nasa/Newsmakers via Getty Images)
Viewed from afar, humanity's efforts to address climate change appear to be a sign of collective insanity (Picture: Nasa/Newsmakers via Getty Images)

Intelligent aliens would be aghast at humans' stupidity over climate change

Rishi Sunak pictured on a tour of a combined-heat-and-power plant in London yesterday (Picture: Jamie Lorriman/WPA pool/Getty Images)
Rishi Sunak pictured on a tour of a combined-heat-and-power plant in London yesterday (Picture: Jamie Lorriman/WPA pool/Getty Images)

As BP counts its record profits, Sunak must mean what he says about Net Zero

Oil giant Exxon's own research into climate change dating back to the 1970s was highly accurate (Picture: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
Oil giant Exxon's own research into climate change dating back to the 1970s was highly accurate (Picture: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

Fossil fuel companies still knowingly putting humanity at risk – Joyce McMillan

Grandson of original Mr Cadbury to open luxury chocolate shops in UK

A new tax on electricity generators will not apply to those using coal, oil, and gas to produce energy (Picture: William Edwards/AFP via Getty Images)
A new tax on electricity generators will not apply to those using coal, oil, and gas to produce energy (Picture: William Edwards/AFP via Getty Images)

UK tax raid on renewables is damaging fight against climate change – Rod Wood

A devastating drought in northern Kenya was followed by flash floods early last year (Picture: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images)
A devastating drought in northern Kenya was followed by flash floods early last year (Picture: Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images)

World may be just 15 years away from 'dangerous' global warming

United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres has announced he will convene a new Climate Ambition Summit in September 2023, calling on world leaders to step up “with new, tangible and credible climate action to accelerate the pace of change” in the battle to tackle global warming
United Nations secretary-general Antonio Guterres has announced he will convene a new Climate Ambition Summit in September 2023, calling on world leaders to step up “with new, tangible and credible climate action to accelerate the pace of change” in the battle to tackle global warming

Was 2022 the last year of climate crisis denial?

A man and a youth use a satellite dish to move children across a flooded area after heavy monsoon rains caused widespread flooding in Jaffarabad district and much of Pakistan (Picture: Fida Hussain/AFP via Getty Images)
A man and a youth use a satellite dish to move children across a flooded area after heavy monsoon rains caused widespread flooding in Jaffarabad district and much of Pakistan (Picture: Fida Hussain/AFP via Getty Images)

A big step forward for nature in 2022, but fossil fuels remain a problem

In July, a wildfire destroyed several houses in Wennington, Greater London (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)
In July, a wildfire destroyed several houses in Wennington, Greater London (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

UK's warmest year on record is another warning we must not miss – Scotsman

Met Office says 2022 will be UK’s warmest year on record

Extreme weather events across the UK this year, such as heatwaves, floods and fires, have made three-fifths of people in Scotland more concerned about climate change.
Extreme weather events across the UK this year, such as heatwaves, floods and fires, have made three-fifths of people in Scotland more concerned about climate change.

Royal London partners with social enterprise amid climate change concerns

Peatland restoration work, like this on the Invercauld estate, often requires heavy machinery
Peatland restoration work, like this on the Invercauld estate, often requires heavy machinery

SNP's land reform plans may wreck its net-zero ambitions – Drew McFarlane-Slack

HSBC has announced it will no longer provide finance for new oil and gas fields (Picture: Scott Barbour/Getty Images)
HSBC has announced it will no longer provide finance for new oil and gas fields (Picture: Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

As bankers turn away from fossil fuels, politicians need to pay attention

While Nicola Sturgeon was happy to pose with climate activists Vanessa Nakate, right, and Greta Thunberg at last year's COP26 summit in Glasgow, her government's actions on reducing carbon emissions have been lacking (Picture: Andy Buchanan/pool/Getty Images)
While Nicola Sturgeon was happy to pose with climate activists Vanessa Nakate, right, and Greta Thunberg at last year's COP26 summit in Glasgow, her government's actions on reducing carbon emissions have been lacking (Picture: Andy Buchanan/pool/Getty Images)

Swinney must recognise economic case for tackling climate change – Lang Banks

First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon alongside Evita Ye(9) who won a competition to design the First Ministers 2022 Christmas card after it was unveiled during her visit to Sunnyside Primary School in Glasgow where children at the school were involved in a competition to create the design.
First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon alongside Evita Ye(9) who won a competition to design the First Ministers 2022 Christmas card after it was unveiled during her visit to Sunnyside Primary School in Glasgow where children at the school were involved in a competition to create the design.

Nicola Sturgeon unveils her official Christmas card designed by school pupil

Detailed fragments of Scotland and the UK, as taken by Nasa
Detailed fragments of Scotland and the UK, as taken by Nasa

Climate change: Scotland's 'trend of failure' on emissions targets will continue

The current rate of species loss has been compared to the extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs (Picture: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
The current rate of species loss has been compared to the extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs (Picture: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

Plants behaving strangely is something to keep an eye on – Scotsman comment

Council leader Mark Findlater was branded ‘a village fool’ at the meeting.
Council leader Mark Findlater was branded ‘a village fool’ at the meeting.

Aberdeenshire Council leader branded 'village fool' at meetng

Wildfires, like this one in Madera County, California, are just one of an array of threats that are getting worse because of climate change (Picture: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)
Wildfires, like this one in Madera County, California, are just one of an array of threats that are getting worse because of climate change (Picture: Josh Edelson/AFP via Getty Images)

World may be sleepwalking to climate disaster but armed forces are wide awake

Award-winning author and academic David Farrier, professor of literature and the environment at the University of Edinburgh, will be discussing Scottish works which help understanding of the climate crisis as co-host of the Figures of Speech: Big Ideas event. Picture: Anneleen Lindsay
Award-winning author and academic David Farrier, professor of literature and the environment at the University of Edinburgh, will be discussing Scottish works which help understanding of the climate crisis as co-host of the Figures of Speech: Big Ideas event. Picture: Anneleen Lindsay

Front lines: How Scottish literature can help fight the climate crisis

Planting trees can be a good thing but they need to be the right trees in the right places (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
Planting trees can be a good thing but they need to be the right trees in the right places (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

COP27's nature-based solutions are not as nice as they sound – Dr Richard Dixon

Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party no longer considers democracy in Scotland important, says reader (Picture: David Price/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
Sir Keir Starmer's Labour Party no longer considers democracy in Scotland important, says reader (Picture: David Price/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Scotland needs an independent Labour Party

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President of France, Emmanuel Macron, ahead of a bilateral meeting during the Cop27 summit at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Picture date: Monday November 7, 2022.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President of France, Emmanuel Macron, ahead of a bilateral meeting during the Cop27 summit at Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. Picture date: Monday November 7, 2022.

World on ‘highway to climate hell with foot on the accelerator’, UN head warns

Hurricane Florence gains strength in the Atlantic Ocean in 2018, in a picture taken from the International Space Station by astronaut Ricky Arnold (Picture: Nasa via Getty Images)
Hurricane Florence gains strength in the Atlantic Ocean in 2018, in a picture taken from the International Space Station by astronaut Ricky Arnold (Picture: Nasa via Getty Images)

Climate change is a growing storm on the horizon – Professor Len Shaffrey

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

Women carrying firewood walk past a carcass of a cow in Loiyangalani, Kenya, amid this year's prolonged drought (Picture: Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images)
Women carrying firewood walk past a carcass of a cow in Loiyangalani, Kenya, amid this year's prolonged drought (Picture: Simon Maina/AFP via Getty Images)

Every bit of global warming is making floods and droughts worse

Researchers monitoring water temperatures in Sermilik Fjord, southeast Greenland.
Researchers monitoring water temperatures in Sermilik Fjord, southeast Greenland.

Greenland ice sheet may be more vulnerable to climate change, study finds

Oil and gas industry subsidies of more than £10 billion a year must end

Sea level rise is causing increased coastal erosion in places like Quiberville, north-western France (Picture: Damien Meyer/AFP via Getty Images)
Sea level rise is causing increased coastal erosion in places like Quiberville, north-western France (Picture: Damien Meyer/AFP via Getty Images)

Potentially catastrophic sea level rise can still be avoided

The UK exported nearly as much oil as it imported in 2021 (Picture: Reg Lancaster/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
The UK exported nearly as much oil as it imported in 2021 (Picture: Reg Lancaster/Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

UK needs to reduce production of fossil fuels, not increase it – Scotsman

Climate-sceptic Jacob Rees-Mogg now runs the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, which is responsible for the UK's action on global warming (Picture: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images)
Climate-sceptic Jacob Rees-Mogg now runs the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, which is responsible for the UK's action on global warming (Picture: Oli Scarff/AFP via Getty Images)

World just missed a deadline for more action on climate change agreed at COP26

Lorna Slater is the minister for green skills, circular economy and biodiversity. Picture: PA
Lorna Slater is the minister for green skills, circular economy and biodiversity. Picture: PA

Why climate change is facing an 'attention crisis'

Asian hornet alert as insects spotted in UK

Carbon emissions come with a price and it must be paid (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)
Carbon emissions come with a price and it must be paid (Picture: Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Why progress towards net-zero emissions is painfully slow – Dr Richard Dixon

Giant container ships transport goods all over the world (Picture: David McNew/Getty Images)
Giant container ships transport goods all over the world (Picture: David McNew/Getty Images)

Shipping's lack of action on carbon emissions will lead to a global crisis

This year has seen record numbers of wildfires break out across Europe, with an area more than twice the size of Luxembourg left burned. Picture: Philippe Lopez/Getty Images
This year has seen record numbers of wildfires break out across Europe, with an area more than twice the size of Luxembourg left burned. Picture: Philippe Lopez/Getty Images

Hot trends: Heatwaves, droughts and floods bring grim taster of climate future

King Charles should try to use his platform to encourage action on climate change (Picture: Victoria Jones/WPA pool/Getty Images)
King Charles should try to use his platform to encourage action on climate change (Picture: Victoria Jones/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Why King Charles should keep working on climate change – Scotsman comment

While serving as the Prince of Wales, King Charles III made a stirring speech at last year's COP26 climate change summit (Picture: Yves Herman/WPA pool/Getty Images)
While serving as the Prince of Wales, King Charles III made a stirring speech at last year's COP26 climate change summit (Picture: Yves Herman/WPA pool/Getty Images)

Climate change can be defining issue of King Charles’s reign – Martyn McLaughlin

Smoke from wildfires, like this one in Sheffield, is just one way that climate change can make air pollution worse (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
Smoke from wildfires, like this one in Sheffield, is just one way that climate change can make air pollution worse (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Climate change is making potentially deadly air pollution worse – Joseph Carter

A local man trying to fight a forest fire on the Greek island of Evia in August last year asks for help as no water comes through the hose (Picture: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images)
A local man trying to fight a forest fire on the Greek island of Evia in August last year asks for help as no water comes through the hose (Picture: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images)

We've known about climate change since 1856. It's time to get to work

Those who make Scotch whisky have to take a long-term view (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)
Those who make Scotch whisky have to take a long-term view (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Scotch whisky plans to hit net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 – Ivan Menezes

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (centre) meets climate activists Greta Thunberg (left) and Vanessa Nakate (right) during the Cop26 summit at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow.
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon (centre) meets climate activists Greta Thunberg (left) and Vanessa Nakate (right) during the Cop26 summit at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow.

Poll shows half of Scots don't think enough done to hit net zero targets

Children shelter from the rain under a plastic sheet near their collapsed house in Jaffarabad district, Balochistan province, after heavy monsoon rainfalls caused major flooding across much of Pakistan (Picture: Fida Hussain/AFP via Getty Images)
Children shelter from the rain under a plastic sheet near their collapsed house in Jaffarabad district, Balochistan province, after heavy monsoon rainfalls caused major flooding across much of Pakistan (Picture: Fida Hussain/AFP via Getty Images)

Antonio Guterres: As climate catastrophe hits Pakistan, your country may be next

The Scotsman Top Stories

Minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol has been linked to a 13% drop in deaths from alcohol consumption, according to a study. Jane Barlow/PA Wire.
Minimum unit pricing (MUP) for alcohol has been linked to a 13% drop in deaths from alcohol consumption, according to a study. Jane Barlow/PA Wire.

MUP led to 150 fewer alcohol deaths a year, researchers claim

The sale of Kinloch Castle on the Isle of Rum has fallen through after a multi-millionaire businessman withdrew his interest. PIC: Creative Commons.
The sale of Kinloch Castle on the Isle of Rum has fallen through after a multi-millionaire businessman withdrew his interest. PIC: Creative Commons.

Millionaire pulls out of buying island castle - and blames government minister

SNP candidate Ash Regan. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
SNP candidate Ash Regan. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

SNP rejects call to allow members to change their vote in leadership race

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