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ENVIRONMENTAL charities have warned that new levelling up legislation could effectively give UK Government ministers powers to “weaken…

Since the 1970s our global consumption of natural resources has tripled, taking a devastating toll on our planet.

Locals in Bo’ness are investigating whether 20-minute neighbourhoods help reduce our impact on the environment and get Scotland closer to net zero or not.

BBC News By Steffan Messenger image copyrightVaughn Matthews image captionThe marsh fritillary butterfly needs marshy grassland habitat and plenty of the devil's-bit scabious plant - its favourite food - to thrive in the wild Nature and wildlife in Wales is undergoing a "mass extinction event", environmental charities have said. Ahead of next week's election, they have urged politicians to take action, with measures such as new, legally binding targets on biodiversity. Campaigners want the issue to be given the same priority as plans to fight climate change. They have also called for a nation...

A red stag with a fancy hat by Stacy Woolhouse. HOW fickle is our human obsession. The red deer is one of Scotland’s most iconic animals, the glorious Monarch of the Glen, but the brouhaha around this species now centres on whether we are killing, or culling as it is often termed, enough of these animals – and if this Covid period is seeing a worrying increase in numbers. Deer has almost, in recent times, been talked of as if it were a kind of vermin. So, what's the problem? Part it's that we’re not eating enough of them. A side effect of the pandemic in the UK has been that, with t...