Updates on our research, collaborations and exciting contributions from our scientists and experts.
Researchers at The James Hutton Institute are working with a community-owned woodland in Aberdeenshire to explore how people can take a greater role in deciding how solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises are used in their local environments.
The closure of one of Perthshire’s best-known berry growers was a devastating blow to the soft fruit industry in Scotland last week. Leadketty Farm has been home to the Corrigall family for 80 years and employed more than 100 people each summer during berry picking season.
Crofters from the Outer Hebrides keen to control livestock disease on their island, have visited Shetland to learn about a scheme targeting diseases including sheep scab.
Rivers in Scotland’s west and northwest could be the most sensitive to climate change and should be monitored more closely, according to a new study by scientists at The James Hutton Institute and the University of Aberdeen.
The South of Scotland has joined a national network of flux towers, with a unique project, involving the Hutton, allowing greenhouse gases to be measured as the land changes from commercial forestry crops to restored peatland.
Ideas around how Scotland can make sure people and industry can continue to access clean water, as supplies come under increasing pressure from climate change, will be one of the key topics at a major water sector event in Edinburgh next Friday (March 22).
Scientists have outlined the urgent actions needed to protect Scotland’s lochs from the impacts of climate change, estimating that harmful algal blooms cost the national economy at least £16.5 million a year.
We are absolutely delighted to announce that the 45th TB Macaulay lecture will be delivered by globally renowned environmental expert, Professor Gretchen C. Daily on 10th September.
The first study of toxic “forever chemicals” along the full length of Asia’s longest river, the Yangtze, has found 13 different types of PFAS, nearly half of them coming from textile treatments and food packaging.
A globally rare fungus found for the first time in Scotland by scientists assessing restoration work on a Scottish temperate rainforest created a conservation conundrum.
