Flooding costs the Scottish Government tens of millions of pounds and destroys lives and livelihoods each year, and according to scientists, it's only getting worse. So what can we do?
Traditionally the answer was to build ...
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Spawn-Again Salmon
I have been working with Cromarty Firth Fisheries Board for 2 months now and am getting a good idea of what the staff Cromarty Firth do on a day to day basis, and have learnt lots of valuable skills in fisheries ...
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Saving the Peatlands
The science of climate change can make for gloomy reading. For many it conjures up images of a morass of drab data all of which points to steadily worsening news. Hope, however, comes in the form of the ambitious work being ...
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Being a Brownfield Tourist
Its hard to believe that I have now been doing my apprenticeship for over two months, although looking back I’ve already learned a lot.
I was lucky to get the chance to visit the Scottish Museums entomology collection. A ...
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