Environment

SSEN Transmission is beginning ground investigation activity across the north of Scotland.

Aberdeenshire Council’s recycling and waste service has won a Silver Striving for Excellence Award from the Association for Public Service Excellence.

New Met Office figures show a warmer and wetter spring in the north and north-east, but with less overall sunshine.

The search is on for nominations to the Good Farming Practice Awards 2024, supported by Aberdeenshire Council and the RNAS.

An investigation by SEPA has found no link between illness in dogs in the Kemnay area and the water quality of the River Don.

Visitors looking for a well-earned rest after a trek up Bennachie could soon kick back and relax in their own nearby glamping pod and hot tub.

Oxfam Scotland, Fuel Poverty Action and Friends of the Earth say a new gas power site would maintain the domination of fossil fuel companies.

A flock of 22 hungry sheep have just arrived at the Ury Riverside Park to help tackle the invasive hogweed problem.

Students from Banff Academy have become the latest to receive their Junior Ranger Award.

Clerkhill School pupils got the chance to be offshore wind engineers for the day thanks to a special STEM education session.

Pupils from Findochty Primary School have taken part in an innovative workshop to help develop STEM skills.

Lower 48 Energy are proposing to develop a 375MW battery compound close to the proposed ‘Greens’ SSE Substation.

Robert Gordon University fnal year Master of Architecture student Rachel Gray has won the HIAA award for a project called ‘Homegrown’

An autonomous robot which is helping check electrical equipment at a convertor station near Keith has a new name thanks to local schoolchildren.

The North East Scotland Climate Action Network will receive £468,000 in funding for the coming year.

Aberdeenshire East MSP Gillian Martin is calling on residents to put forward their views on a new flooding resilience consultation.

The number of disposable vapes being thrown away in the UK has grown across a single year from 1.3 to five million per week.

A pioneering net cleaning pump, designed and manufactured by north-east firm Brimmond has successfully completed its first live site trial.

Aberdeen will be the main host of the World Agritourism Conference 2026 it was announcement in Bolzano, Italy at a meeting of world leaders..

Further public engagement sessions for the new power line and associated substation proposals will take place starting next week.