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The James Hutton Institute has received a £3 million investment from Scottish Enterprise for its new high throughput phenotyping facility, part of the Advanced Plant Growth Centre (APGC) housed in our Crop Innovation Centre (CIC).
Scotland’s Hydro Nation International Centre has been working with experts, researchers and decision-makers in Malawi and Scotland to tackle the Malawian water challenges and better understand the potential impacts of climate change in Scotland.
Land managers across the UK are being asked to share their experience of bracken treatment methods, following the removal of Asulox as the main available herbicide.
Professor Colin Campbell, Chief Executive at The James Hutton Institute, spoke about the importance of soil health at NFU Scotland’s National Conference on Thursday 6th February 2025.
Our scientists have warned that initiatives that promote self-establishing trees might not always lead to carbon capture at the decadal timescales relevant to achieving net zero and mitigating climate change.
World-renowned environmental scientist Professor Gretchen C. Daily laid out her vision for a world at one with nature at the 45th annual TB Macaulay lecture held in Edinburgh on Tuesday night (10th September 2024).
Climate change, driven by human activities producing more greenhouse gases and reducing carbon sink capacity (such as deforestation), is now increasing the level of variability in our weather nationally and globally.
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.
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.
A first of its kind consortium of 34 leading research and stakeholder organisations set up to help all four UK administrations address land use and agriculture..
