Recent developments in battery technology promise to make the transition to net zero faster and less difficult. What is happening?

The image above appeared on the front cover of the Sunday National on 16 August 2026. The story highlighted the ongoing charges faced by the Isle of Skye Ferry CIC, the community company that operates...

What a variety of folk you get at Corrour Bothy! Halfway through the Lairig Ghru and an ideal base for numerous spectacular Munros, it has to be one of Scotland’s busiest bothies, and even midweek …

Rewilding is not the cause of Britain's worsening upland wildfires. Increasingly, it looks like one of the most promising solutions.

Podcast Episode · The Rest Is Politics · 30 July · 16min

While efforts to contain the Glen More wildfire continue (see here) and have had some impact, it now appears likely only rain will extinguish it.   In the last year the Cairngorms National Park Author...

Emerging research suggests datacentres create a heat island effect, pushing up temperatures in the immediate vicinity by as much as 9C The community living next to the largest datacentre park in Europe say the scorching summer heat has grown unbearable. On days like Wednesday, said Nabeel Nawaz, the store manager of a Chaiiwala franchise in the centre of Slough, the heat is like something “pinching your body and burning your skin”. Continue reading...

This year Scotland signed off on the Natural Environment Act, setting up a framework to create nature recovery targets. Now, it’s up to the new government to create targets that will lead to the resto...

Gay, fearless and utterly unique, Thornton had a hit with Hound Dog before Elvis – but was then fleeced and forgotten. One hundred years after her birth, a new documentary sets the record straight

Easter Sunday in the Cairngorms: bitter wind and heavy snow. I’ve always loved the mountains in winter, from early experience of climbing hills in the snow as a teenager to later years of more tech…

At first it was subtle, barely enough to suggest anything was amiss - a long, flat-topped plateau in the distance, somewhere over towards Drumochter, and I was struggling to identify it. We do of c...