Scotland's environment blog
Keep up to date with the latest developments and data you can find on Scotland’s environment web and find out more about what our partners are doing to address environmental issues.
Transboundary air pollution continues despite Covid-19 lockdown
- July 22, 2020
Transboundary air pollution does not stop at national borders. Air pollutants not only impact the country they originate from, but can circulate across hundreds and thousands of kilometres.
How can Scotland become a resilient Hydro Nation? Stakeholder perspectives
- January 24, 2020
As part of his first year PhD studies with the Hydro Nation Scholars programme, Kerr Adams interviewed 28 stakeholders associated with freshwater environments in Scotland. The following blog is a round-up of his findings of stakeholder perspectives on knowledge gaps that need to be addressed to help Scotland's freshwater environments become resilient to future change.
Improving access to spatial data from Scottish Government funded research
- October 04, 2019
To improve sharing and reuse of spatial data from the Scottish Government’s funded research on natural assets (that is not available anywhere else), partners created a web app (Natural Asset Register- Data Portal, NAR-DP) and established a steering group to aid continuous improvement of the NAR-DP, gradually adding datasets related to Scotland’s soils, land, biodiversity, water and cultural heritage. Kit Macleod and David Donnelly from The James Hutton Institute, tell us more.
The web team helping keep the SEWEB cogs turning
- June 27, 2019
Our web team have been updating software behind the scenes and keeping Scotland's environment website up-to-date and getting us match-fit for the summer of 2019
All things Invasive with the Scottish Invasive Species Initiative
- May 13, 2019
This week is national Invasive Species Week, 13-17 May, which aims to raise awareness across Great Britain about invasive species and their impacts. Vicky Hilton from the Scottish Invasive Species Initiative explains more in this latest blog.
European Waste Shipment Regulation
- April 04, 2019
Waste shipments enable resources to be transported for use in industries across the world, creating a valuable commodity from discarded materials. In a modern world where natural resources are increasingly scarce, waste shipments offer an alternative to the over-use of our planet’s resources.