NatureScot’s data shows that deer were pressuring 230 of Scotland’s 1,422 sites of special scientific interest (SSSIs), 52 of ...

Students working in Edinburgh University were “interrogated” by police at their desks over posters featuring Palestinians ...

Footage of farmed trout apparently suffocating, haemorrhaging, and being beaten with batons in a slaughterhouse has prompted an official complaint to a government regulator. The video – seen by The ...

Students working in Edinburgh University were “interrogated” by police at their desks over posters featuring Palestinians killed by… ...

Dozens of wild swimming spots where water quality is classed as “good” or “excellent” were contaminated with human or animal faeces this summer, analysis by The Ferret has found. Official testing ...

Ferret Fact Service looks at the festive claim that Santa Claus is dressed in red because of Coca-Cola advertising. This content is for Standard Monthly , Standard Annual, Gold Annual, and Lifetime ...

The diseases, damage and infestations suffered by hundreds of thousands of caged salmon in Scotland have been exposed by more than 300 photos released by the Scottish Government. This content is for ...

Scotland’s snow-covered peaks have formed an iconic part of our tourism industry, but are threatened by the impacts of the climate crisis. As part of our fact-checking series, Scotland and the Climate ...

More than 135,000 fish have died at a salmon farm in the northwest Highlands run by a Norwegian company in the last two years, The Ferret can reveal. A total of 135,016 lumpfish and wrasse – aka ...