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)

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)

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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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

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)

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 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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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.

Nicola Sturgeon unveils her official Christmas card designed by school pupil

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)

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

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)

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

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)

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)

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.

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)

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)

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)

Every bit of global warming is making floods and droughts worse

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

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)

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)

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)

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.

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)

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

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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.

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

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

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