The James Hutton Institute is opening the site of its Climate-Positive Farming Initiative to the public later this month (March 21-22) as part of Climate Week North East.
Visitors to the Initiative, at the Hutton’s Glensaugh research farm, will be taken on a free, 90-minute, 3 km-long...
Hutton scientists and researchers will be on stage as part of an Aberdeen entertainment night mixing research and comedy for an evening of laughs, music and new ideas later this week.
Bright Club, which began in Aberdeen in 2012, will be held at Spin on Littlejohn Street at 7pm on Thursday,...
By Dr Orla Shortall, agricultural sociologist
Around this time of year, on a very rainy winter’s day a couple of years ago, I was visiting a dairy farm in east Scotland. Grazing was important to the farmers’ system for keeping his costs down, but he told me that, in recent years,...
The winter months, December to February 2024, were the second warmest winter on our records at Invergowrie, with a daily mean air temperature of 5.3°C.
This beats only 1998, which saw a daily air mean of 5.8°C, according to our records, which date back to 1954. It was also a relatively...
By Dr Umar Farooq
Green finance has become a new buzz phrase; an economic lever to help drive environmental solutions that address the climate and ecological crises.
Trees are a great way to soak up carbon emissions, improve nature and biodiversity. Right? Well, not always. We take a dive into why where you plant trees can have hidden, perhaps surprising, implications.
Dr Mike Rivington and Dr Mohamed Jabloun
A changing climate – past trends and future projections and what they could mean for Scotland.
Scotland is well known for its weather. We’re used to rain and snow as well as dry spells. But these weather patterns are changing. What could...
Farmers in North East Scotland are being invited to an online event to discuss future water scarcity predictions in the region and what they could mean for their sector.
The event, being run by The James Hutton Institute at 7pm on February 20, aims to get a better perspective on what future...
By Dr Jonathan Hopkins and Dr Ruth Wilson, The James Hutton Institute
Population decline in Scotland’s sparsely populated and rural areas, as highlighted in the Herald’s special investigation last week, is a perennial challenge.
It’s a topic that we and colleagues have...
How wet was 2023 for you? In Invergowrie, it was very wet, according to our full year weather data.
We recorded a total of 995.4 mm of rainfall, the most we have ever recorded since records began in 1954.
The next wettest year we have on record was 2002, during which we recorded 979.8 mm of...
The James Hutton Research Institute is the result of the merger in April 2011 of MLURI and SCRI.
This merger formed a new powerhouse for research into food, land use, and climate change.