Environment

A first of its kind Scottish apprenticeship for rural land use and management will equip farm workers with high-level core skills.

Highlands Rewilding which owns land near Huntly and Inverness has joined forces with the Tayvallich Initiative in Argyll in a third land deal.

Huge profits recorded by fertiliser manufacturers in 2022 at a time when farmgate costs saw an unprecedented spike need to be addressed says Union.

Scottish Water’s network of Top-Up Taps could be expanded to include Huntly in the next round of installations in the north-east.

In what could be a world first, the Erebus has sent back an image over the ARGOS satellite network, the first small autonomous tracker to do so.

Crop rotations have proved critical to improving soil structure and reducing weed burden for five memebrs of the Soil Regenerative Agriculture Group.

SSEN Transmission has announced it has selected Hitachi Energy and NKT as preferred bidder for elements of the Spittal-Peterhead subsea link.

Businesses abstracting water are being urged not to get complacent as river and ground water levels return to normal across much of Scotland.

The James Hutton Institute research noted that even with 100 per cent renewable energy, vertical farming has still yet to achieve carbon neutrality.

Four projects in Aberdeenshire will receive a boost in funding thanks to the Clashindarroch Wind Farm Community Fund.

Aden Country Park received its14 consecutive award alongside, Haddo Country Park, which has won for the second time and new winner Ury Riverside Park.

SRUC scientists’ research into reducing cattle methane emissions using a chemical from daffodils is part of a project awarded £2.8 million by DEFRA.

SRUC scientists’ research into reducing cattle methane emissions using a chemical from daffodils is part of a project awarded £2.8 million by DEFRA.

TURNING farmland outside Rhynie into a 500-acre forestry plantation would be "exploitation" and "greenwashing", said a village activist.

A total of four asymptomatic human detections of influenza A (H5N1) have been picked up through a surveillance programme since March.

Inspired by the Ross scientific expedition of 1839-43 two Aberdeenshire built replica ships have taken to Antarctic waters on a scientific mission.

The Avian Flu Task Force is on high alert following an increase in dead seabirds and infections at domestic and commercial premises in the north-east

Consultation with north-east communities over planned major transmission projects fall short of required standards, according to a property expert.

SEPA's latest rainfall report shows there has been some recovery of water levels across Scotland leading to lifting of restrictions.

SEPA's latest rainfall report shows there has been some recovery of water levels across Scotland leading to lifting of restrictions.