A team from BioSS played an important role in understanding the spread of COVID-19 in Scotland by developing a system capable of rapidly analysing data tracking the presence of the virus in wastewater samples.
Skiers keen for slick runs are leaving toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” behind on ski slopes, research by The James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen and the University of Graz in Austria has revealed.
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.
In the context of the climate and biodiversity emergencies, there is a need not only to mitigate against these changes, but also adapt to current and future water-related environmental pressures.
Climate change poses a substantial threat to Scotland’s air, water, soils, geology and all living things – our natural capital. There is therefore an urgent need to research the impacts of climate change on Scotland’s assets.
This project aims to assess the potential of existing farmer groups across England to support Green Finance markets and other landscape scale environmental management initiatives.
The largest survey of island life in Scotland has been launched to help review the Scottish Government’s National Islands Plan.
I completed my PhD in Microbiology at the University of Pretoria (UP, South Africa); my research focus is the legume-rhizobium
The James Hutton Institute in Aberdeen is supporting research that suggests 12 years of warfare in Northwest Syria is contaminating soils, posing risks to agriculture and food security in a region already under critical stress.
The lecture was held on Thursday evening (18th October 2023) in Edinburgh, where we were honoured to host Johan Rockström,
