Friends of the Earth Scotland has published league tables which they claimed identify Scotland's most polluted streets. Hope Stre...

More than two million deaths occur globally each year as a direct result of air pollution from human activity, scientists have said.    2...

The number of Edinburgh streets affected by transport pollution has increased. There are now an additional six miles of streets that hav...

EU legislation to protect the marine environment which bans the dumping of waste at sea. Minutes from an internal Ministry of Defence commi...

25 million people use Edinburgh Waverley station annually. Hundreds work there eachday and thousands pass though it daily Exhaust fumes f...

Oil companies operating in the North Sea have been fined for oil spills on just seven occasions since 2000, even though 4,123 separate spil...

Around 60% of Glaswegians live within 500m of derelict land, according to a new survey – the highest percentage of any local authority in S...

It all began like a good disaster film. The gas alarm sounded and the emergency evacuation started. Only a small contingent stayed behind, ...

Pollution in several residential areas of Glasgow has reached potentially deadly levels. All the air quality monitors in the city a...

One third to one half of all food produced in the world goes to waste uneaten, according to data recently collected by the Natural Resources...

he Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) has warned that revised targets to reduce air pollution – already postponed for up to a d...

People living and working in Scotland’s major cities are being exposed to “dangerous” levels of air pollution, figures have revealed. Analy...

Air pollution is risking the lives of thousands of Scots, the Scottish Government has been warned . A lethal pollutant, nitrogen dioxide,...

Hotels and restaurants send 130,000 tonnes of waste to landfill in Scotland every year. More than three-quarters is recyclable. 53,500 ton...

It sounds mad: shipping UK-caught langoustine thousands of miles to be processed, then back again to be turned into breaded scampi and put o...