Award-winning novelist celebrates late partner’s love of birds with gift to establish the Graeme Gibson chair in avian biology

Forskere i Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities ved Universitetet i Stavanger får nær 40 millioner kroner fra Forskningsrådet til å løfte fram levende dyr og planter som en viktig del av vår felles historie.

Primary school pupils in Scotland have become archaeologists for their town, uncovering stories of the past and building a powerful sense of belonging through a groundbreaking UofG led archaeology pro...

The archaeologists were overjoyed when the grave and thus the church were finally confirmed on the second-to-last day of the excavation. In the middle is Christian Edelfelt Koch Madsen. Photo: Ellen…

Archaeologists say the discovery suggests possible trading links between Viking and Anglo-Saxons.

An environmental advocate warns permitting reform could favor data centers and fossil fuels over public lands.

A new page has been added to our "Structures" section, detailing what we now know about Structure Forty-Four - the circular building excavated in July.

"Profound concern" over the fate of the Academy and its internationally significant collection.

Cultural Heritage Partners is a private law firm committed to the principle that cultural heritage is a human right.

But their habitat is threatened by bottom trawling in the region and Trump’s plan to expand seafloor mining

PhD student Sophie Durbin looks back on her summer research trip to Orkney.

Scientists searched for the inclusion of the Gaelic and Scots words for oyster or oysters in place-names around Scotland's coast.

Long-standing Irish place names hark back to a world alive with cranes, wolves and eagles. Now these old names are piquing the interest of nature-lovers and ecologists.

A secret archaeological dig inside a Dutch church has led to drama worthy of Alexandre Dumas. Did Wim Dijkman really find the bones of the fourth musketeer? We may never know.

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In the towns and cities of western seaboard of Ireland, it rains more than 250 days a year, a notable wetness of the air which shifts from swirling moisture to pounding rain as weather systems roll in...

Twenty-five years later, fleeting memories and indelible images still haunt those who lived through the attacks and their aftermath.

BirdLife International’s report on the state of the world's birds — trends, pressures, and conservation responses.

In the first project of its kind, scientists are trying to answer if the future of Alaska’s streams and tundra may depend not on survival of the fittest but on how species adapt together