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Expertise in marine engineering built up in the North Sea oil and gas industry could help create a world-leading marine renewables industry (Picture: Andy Buchanan)

SNP warned oil and gas slump driving wind investment out of Scotland

Picture: Lisa Ferguson

Exclusive Fewer bus passengers since SNP took power amid public ownership call

UK Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh is reportedly poised to reject the Rosebank oil project

Labour urged to approve Rosebank 'by Christmas' amid climate concerns

People protest outside the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero in London over the UK government's decision to approve the Jackdaw gas field. Picture: Brook Mitchell

Why Labour's Jackdaw gas field decision is not climate vandalism Scotsman comment

The Jackdaw gas project has been approved by the UK government

Jackdaw bosses' Tornado gas hopes as more North Sea projects planned

The Jackdaw gas project has been approved by the UK government

Explainer Jackdaw: what does it mean for business, you and energy prices

Andy Burnham and Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh

Analysis Jackdaw approval cannot be distraction from crisis facing North Sea

The Jackdaw gas field has been given the go ahead

Jackdaw gas field set to be approved by UK Labour government

Exclusive Minister under pressure after failing to commit to new drilling

Buildings deluged in sludge in Devighat in Nepal's Nuwakot district after flash floods hit the area in August. More than 1,400 bodies have been found and thousands more are still missing. Picture: Prabin Ranabhat

How we can beat climate change despite rogue states blocking progress Professor Frank Biermann

SNP 'put to bed' presumption against oil after energy tax split

The disruption caused by the arrival of Covid in 2020 resulted in empty supermarket shelves in many places. Picture: Dan Kitwood

Why UK's 'woefully inadequate' food production should worry us all Philip Lymbery

SNP leader John Swinney as his party braces to debate its position on North Sea oil and gas

Exclusive SNP told to give 'full-throated support' to drilling amid oil split

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has spoken about Russian interference (Christopher Furlong/PA)

Analysis Burnham faces crucial test that will define leadership in Scotland

Exclusive The five North Sea projects waiting in pipeline if Jackdaw approved

Floating wind farms make use of the huge blades fitted to towers hundreds of feet in height.

Exclusive GB Energy to continue investment in Scotland's floating wind projects

Exclusive Stalled wind projects risk leaving Scottish ports as 'stranded assets'

First Minister John Swinney could face more ScotWind developers relinquishing their contracts

Analysis SNP needs ScotWind reality check to restore investor confidence

Equinor, which owns and operates the pioneering Hywind scheme, is bidding to build new floating wind turbines off the Scottish coast as part of the Scottish Government's plans to increase the amount of wind energy generated offshore. Picture: Michal Wachucik

Exclusive £50bn floating wind industry in crisis talks as contracts cull awaited

Floating wind farms make use of the huge blades fitted to towers hundreds of feet in height.

Exclusive 'Window closing' for Scotland to lead world on floating offshore wind

The UK Labour government has been warned this month's Budget is 'pivotal' for the North Sea oil and gas sector

Exclusive Call for UK Budget to hand North Sea oil and gas an investment future

A wildfire rages on a hillside in Castaic, a north-western neighbourhood of Los Angeles, California, last year (Picture: Frederic J Brown)

Why Tories' net zero denial is not true Conservatism Ian Johnston

New plug-in solar panels are opening up the technology to far more people.

Could plug-in options mean now is the time to go solar?

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The future's bright - just try not to get burned Gareth Edwards

Sphagnum moss is a primary building block of northern peatlands and is unusual in that it has no roots or stomata - the tiny openings that help most plants regulate water loss.

The tiny moss that could help save peatlands from drought

Canadian premier Mark Carney is taking a stand against US President Donald Trump and the democratic world needs to back him (Picture: Chip Somodevilla)

UK must join Carney's new coalition or face domination by US and China Henry McLeish

People at work unearthing the lost hamlet under Burdiehouse Burn Valley Park

Search for 'lost' hamlet of Edinburgh underneath city park

Torness nuclear power station is due to close in 2030 (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell)

How SNP's anti-nuclear obsession is damaging efforts to reach net zero Scotsman comment

Torness Nuclear Power Station.

Exclusive UK minister calls for SNP nuclear power talks amid new reactor hopes

MSPs have backed calls to pause AI data centre decisions until planning guidance has been published by the Scottish government

MSPs back AI data centre planning decision pause ahead of new guidance

James Crawford

The Vanishing Earth by James Crawford review: 'challenging'

Andy Burnham is under pressure to unlock the North Sea oil and gas sector for investment

Andy Burnham told to unlock 111 North Sea projects with Budget pivot

Professor John Underhill

Professor calls UK 'minnow culprit' in climate change

The tell-tale mushroom cloud of a nuclear explosion rises over Mururoa atoll in 1971

Fearing AI, climate or nuclear Armageddon? Why we might just live John McLellan

An Aedes cantans mosquito caught by the Mosquito Scotland team in a forest in Scotland

Exclusive Why Scotland should prepare for more tropical, mosquito-borne diseases

Expertise in marine engineering built up in the North Sea oil and gas industry could help create a world-leading marine renewables industry (Picture: Andy Buchanan)

SNP call for UK oil funds to bankroll Scotland's renewables sector

A wildfire burns near Nethy Bridge in the Cairngorms National Park in July (Picture: Jane Barlow)

As bad weather cost hits £1.2bn, expect huge disputes over insurance Jacqui Bickerton

About 25 million homes in the UK rely on gas boilers for heating and hot water (Picture: Christopher Furlong)

Why North Sea oil exodus will not help fight against global warming Scotsman comment

First Minister John Swinney has fired the starting gun on reshaping Scotland's public services

Scotland's environment quangos: Merger will require 'upfront costs'

SFRS share images of the scene of the ongoing wildfire in the Cairngorms National Park

Cairngorms wildfire: Warning another blaze could happen this year

A visualisation of the Ravenscraig AI data centre proposed by Apatura. The developers has sought to correct misinformation about the demands on water by the new breed of data centres planned for Scotland.

Data centres: 'When it comes to water use, let's stick to the facts' Michael Hunter

Construction work taking place on the sister Moray West offshore wind project.

Exclusive Warning over reliance on China for crucial wind turbine magnets
A Dundee University study has warned about the difficulties in moving manufacturing of crucial magnets away from China amid an uncertain geopolitical landscape.

Many in rural Scotland feel like they are getting a raw deal from local windfarm developments (Picture: Andrew Harnik)

Denying communities voice over windfarms may kill progress on net zero Alistair Carmichael

Last year's devastating wildfire in Los Angeles resulted in billions of pounds of damage, affecting insurance premiums (Picture: Josh Edelson)

Action on climate change is vital but must not fall hardest on poorest Satwat Rehman and Dave Reay

Buchanan Street in Glasgow's city centre. PIC: John Linton/PA Wire

Exclusive Half of Scots cut back on spending and leisure activities

Mingulay in the Outer Hebrides is owned by NTS property PIC: Julian Paren/geograph.org.

Mapping the future of uninhabited islands in the Outer Hebrides

Floating wind farms make use of the huge blades fitted to towers hundreds of feet in height.

Exclusive Warning as SNP's flagship North Sea floating wind projects stall

Michael Shanks and Stephen Gethins on top of the Cruachan Dam

Exclusive 'No deadline' on Rosebank and Jackdaw, says UK energy minister

Our politicians lack the courage to start confronting climate issue Joyce McMillan

A marsh harrier is seen in flight

When marsh harriers disappeared: This summer has taken more than rain Philip Lymbery

Sturgeon: I was not even considered for prosecution in police probe

A helicopter water bombs the Cairngorm wildfire that has burned for weeks after breaking out last month (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Readers' Letters: Outdoor blazes aren't always caused by climate changed

Electricity bills do not reflect the relatively cheap cost of energy produced by windfarms like Whitelees, near Eaglesham (Picture: Andrew Milligan)

SNP 'keeping communities in the dark' over onshore wind future

Opponents of the data centres fear they could have a ‘disastrous’ impact on both local communities and the environment (Yui Mok/PA)

SNP 'falling short' of AI data centre pause as plans to be monitored

Environmental activists fear the impact that extracting fossil fuels from the UK's largest remaining untapped oil field - which lies about 80 miles west of Shetland - would have on climate change.

Musicians including Bobbie Gillespie urge Burnham to reject Rosebank

Campaigners from Fossil Free London, Christian Climate Action and the Climate Choir take part in a protest against plans for drilling in the Rosebank oil field, outside the Department For Energy Security And Net Zero (DESNZ) in Westminster, central London

Andy Burnham urged to resist calls to block new North Sea fields

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