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

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

Campaigners warn that extending peat burning restrictions could heighten wildfire risk across UK uplands and harm rural communities.

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

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 ...

FIREFIGHTERS are urging the public to be aware of the risk of wildfires – as scientists warn the danger is increasing in Scotland. New figures show almost 80 per cent of large outdoor fires ...

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

Senior Scottish economist Jeremy Peat said yesterday: “The dramatic response of global stock markets to Donald Trump's madhat scheme to raise tariffs across the board was simply inevitable and wholly ...