Richard Dixon

Nicola Sturgeon, seen with Ugandan activist Vanessa Nakate during the COP26 summit in Glasgow, put significant energy into climate change issues (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA)

Why is climate change the forgotten issue in SNP leadership contest?

The Hinkley Point C nuclear power station is being built in Bridgwater, Somerset (Picture: Finnbarr Webster/PA)

Why Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is dead wrong about nuclear power – Dr Richard Dixon

A northern bottlenose whale leaps from the waters of Gare Loch near the Faslane naval base (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

High Seas Treaty is vital, but Scotland must act quickly to protect its waters

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

Biffa has been convicted multiple times of exporting poorly sorted and contaminated waste

Anger over ‘big climate polluter’ role in flagship recycling scheme

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

Plastic bottles are a major source of litter in Scotland (Picture: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Deposit Return Scheme is vital to tackle plastic pollution – Dr Richard Dixon

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

As wildfires and other symptoms of global warming become an increasing problem, the next international summit on the issue, COP28, will be run by an oil industry executive (Picture: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP via Getty Images)

Oil chief's appointment as COP28 president is worrying sign – Dr Richard Dixon

Air pollution targets are set to be reduced because of the damage it causes to health (Picture: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Despite good news on air pollution, it's still not clean – Dr Richard Dixon

Oil rigs stacked up in the Cromarty Firth during a previous price slump (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Is Scottish Government set to end oil and gas industry? – Dr Richard Dixon

The Insulate Britain campaign group, seen delivering a letter to 10 Downing Street, has helped to highlight the need to improve home insulation (Picture: Leon Neal/Getty Images)

A 'war effort' on boosting home insulation is now vital – Dr Richard Dixon

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

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)

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

Prime Minister Liz Truss, expected to reveal details of the support package this week, speaks in the House of Commons alongside Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng

Readers' letters: Truss’s voodoo economics will not work

Liz Truss has put fracking back on the political agenda (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Dear Liz Truss, fracking is a pointless gamble – Dr Richard Dixon

Dr Richard Dixon: Expert is not convinced by Scottish Govt's new energy strategies

Energy scenarios almost point the way - but not quite

Bathing water may not always be as free from sewage as we would like (Picture: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Beaches can be swimming in sewage without this showing up in official results

The Sizewell B nuclear power station in Suffolk is set to be joined by Sizewell C (Picture: Fiona Hanson/PA)

Building nuclear power stations as cost-of-living crisis grows is a bad joke

Even the mighty Danube River, seen at Szentendre, Hungary, has been much reduced by drought (Picture: Ferenc Isza/AFP via Getty Images)

Why saving water even when it's not scarce is a good idea – Dr Richard Dixon

Conservative leadership contender Liz Truss plans 'a red tape bonfire' (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Brexit fundamentalism threatens swathe of environmental gains

The European Union regulates chemicals in a range of products, including cosmetics (Picture: Mireya Acierto/Getty Images)

Hard Brexit is putting people at risk from toxic chemicals – Dr Richard Dixon

Using green electricity to make hydrogen may not be as efficient as using the electricity directly (Picture: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images)

Scotland needs to focus on green electricity, not hydrogen – Dr Richard Dixon

Plastic pollution is a growing problem with tiny fragments getting into the food chain (Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)

Scotland consumes about twice as much as we need for a good life – Richard Dixon

Creating a commercially viable system for capturing carbon emissions has proved difficult (Picture: Lukas Schulze/Getty Images)

If Scotland is to be net-zero by 2045, how can it allow new gas power plants?

In an exclusive interview for Scotland on Sunday, Bermuda premier David Burt discusses common problems facing the two nations and what each can learn from the other. “We share with Scotland a wish to innovate in renewables, in our case using the sun and tides, to become carbon-neutral over time, and radically to reduce our carbon footprint over the next decade," he said.

Car ban footprint: Should Scotland follow Bermuda's lead to save the planet?

Electric arc furnaces melt steel by heating it to more than 1,500 degrees Celsius (Picture: David McNew/Getty Images)

How Scotland can rebuild its steel industry and cut carbon emissions

Barcelona council has created car-free zones in parts of the city (Picture: Josep Lago/AFP via Getty Images)

When voting in the council elections, please think about climate change

Reducing meat consumption can help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions associated with farming (Picture: Guillaume Souvant/AFP via Getty Images)

The effective way to tackle climate change that governments don't talk about

Hundreds of people died after heavy rainfall swept away homes in Durban and in KwaZulu-Natal province (Picture: Marco Longari/AFP via Getty Images)

Africa's floods and droughts are just a taste of coming storm – Dr Richard Dixon

Construction work continues at the over-budget and delayed Hinkley Point C nuclear power station site (Picture: Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)

Scottish and UK governments are on collision course over nuclear energy and oil

The messages in the latest UN report on climate change don't address the urgent need to cut production and use of fossil fuels, writes Dr Richard Dixon. PIC: CC/Gerry Machen.

Trickery and technology won't solve climate change crisis - Dr Richard Dixon

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