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Scotland’s climate is changing faster than scientists predicted, with increasing likelihood of more frequent and more extreme weather events, according to new analysis by The James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen.

A new study into a butterfly that only lives in Scottish peatlands hopes to unlock how it and other species are coping with the loss and fragmentation of their specialist habitats.

A flood of green investment into Scottish land holdings could deepen existing perceptions around what divides landowners and rural communities if new understanding, policies and regulation don’t keep up, a study by researchers at The James Hutton Institute has found.

Implementation and cooperation between the conservation and the agricultural sector will be crucial to a new Nature Restoration Law being voted on by the European Parliament early next year, according to a report by a group of scientists, including researchers from The James Hutton Institute.

Six complementary technologies planned for waste-to-value site in global first designed to decarbonise food production and maximise resource efficiency.

A Dundee-based community group is looking to raise £3 million to build a solar meadow on the edge of Dundee.

Researchers at The James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen have launched a project to test whether honey and bumble bees could be spreading diseases more widely than they would normally due to inadvertently picking up microplastics.

The James Hutton Institute, home to the UK’s leading potato research centre, has donated 932 bags of locally grown potatoes to Scotland’s leading food redistribution organisation, FareShare.

Pioneering scientific research by The James Hutton Institute into Scotland’s globally important peatlands has been recognised at the leading Scottish nature conservation awards.