Large Highland wildfire site that devastated RSPB nature reserve sees 'green shoots' (www.scotsman.com)
An RSPB nature reserve devastated by a wildfire that ripped through the Scottish Highlands is showing promising signs of recovery....
Wet and wild: How climate change is threatening wildlife and historical remains at St Kilda World Heritage Site (www.scotsman.com)
Wilder and more frequent storms, changing ocean currents and warming temperatures are taking an increasingly heavy toll on one of Scotland’s most remote and spectacular scenic outposts, posing a growing danger to both nature and culturally important buildings....
Beltane Fire Festival: Raving the night away in celebration of May Day and the start of summer (www.scotsman.com)
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Beltane Fire Festival: Raving the night away in celebration of May Day and the start of summer (www.scotsman.com)
Bonfires, blazing torches, body-painted dancers, drummers, jugglers, musicians, fire-eaters, ancient Celtic rituals and a spectacular backdrop....
Beltane Fire Festival: Raving the night away in celebration of May Day and the start of summer (www.scotsman.com)
cross-posted from: feddit.uk/post/11120995...
Sea eagle damage fund sees applications rise as calls ramp up for better Scotland long-term plan (www.scotsman.com)
Scotland’s sea eagle population increase has seen applications for a fund to support farmers and crofters with damage and predation costs rise by more than 10 per cent amid calls for a better long-term plan....
Campaigner push to take Sitka spruce forest proposals to court (www.scotsman.com)
A 700-hectare conifer forest being planted around a countryside walkway named after one of Scotland’s most celebrated writers could be challenged in court as fundraising for a judicial review is underway....
BrewDog's million tree Lost Forest sees half of planted saplings now dead (www.scotsman.com)
BrewDog has admitted half of the saplings planted for their million tree Lost Forest died in the first year....
Play that funky music: Lemurs grooving with personal sound system at Scottish safari park (www.scotsman.com)
Leonardo DiCaprio urges Scottish Government ministers to declare Scotland a rewilding nation (www.scotsman.com)
Leonardo DiCaprio has joined Scottish environmentalists in urging ministers to declare the country a rewilding nation....
10 species of Scottish butterflies that have thrived since 2014 (www.scotsman.com)
The latest results from the annual UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) were published last week and the red admiral stole the headlines north of the border - with the butterly having its best ever year in Scotland....
Tory MSP writes to Police Scotland chief over ‘non-crime hate incident’ row (www.scotsman.com)
We might be living in topsy-turvy world when Murdo Fraser has a point. Honestly, the whole idea of the police keeping “hate” notes on you when you haven’t committed a crime is pretty dystopian.
Taskmaster Champion of Champions 3 is on tonight! (www.scotsman.com)
Spoilers for previous seasons, I guess:...
Witch-hunting in 17th-century Scotland was so well paid that it attracted some blatant fakers – Susan Morrison (www.scotsman.com)
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Witch-hunting in 17th-century Scotland was so well paid that it attracted some blatant fakers – Susan Morrison (www.scotsman.com)
cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/12865151...
Why Scotland's renewable energy schemes are being delayed for years (www.scotsman.com)
if we’re to stand any chance of making that net-zero deadline, we need to be able to do all of this faster. Quite simply, green energy projects are taking far too long to clear the planning process. It takes two years to build an offshore wind farm, but ten years to get it from the drawing board and through planning; and half...
Oped: 1,000 days in a Hong Kong jail: When will Rishi Sunak stand up for British citizen Jimmy Lai and democracy? (www.scotsman.com)
Why Rishi Sunak is wrong to claim that boosting UK oil and gas production will help fight climate change (www.scotsman.com)
Celtic end Kyogo Furuhashi transfer speculation with new long-term deal (www.scotsman.com)
‘Offshore wind farms are vital to Scotland’s journey to net zero but must be sited in the right places for nature’ (www.scotsman.com)
The proposed wind farm, in the outer Firth of Forth, will have more than 300 giant turbines stretched across an area four times larger than Edinburgh....
