Healthy peat is the country's biggest carbon store but when damaged it releases planet-warming greenhouse gases back into the ...

Peat is an unusual kind of soil that forms in rainy areas with poor drainage, so the earth becomes waterlogged. In the UK, ...

The hat is believed to be Scotland’s oldest recognisable garment.

Scottish Water is restoring 400 hectares of degraded peat around Loch Katrine which feeds the city's drinking water.

SCOTLAND is an “extreme” alert for wildfires after four terrifying blazes ravaged parts of the country in the space of two weeks. The sunny, dry weather this week has prompted a ...

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A Scottish distillery has launched a new limited-edition whisky ahead of the return of a famous malts festival this spring.

Loch Katrine, in the heart of Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park, supplies water to 1.3 million homes in and around Scotland's largest city. But the peat in the hills surrounding the loch ...

19 projects are moving to the initiative’s second round, with grants ranging from £25,000 to £1m set to be allocated ...