Ilona Amos Journalist
  • National World

Environment correspondent for The Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday.

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  • Environment

132 Articles
over 1 year ago
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Nicola Sturgeon says Scotland must move faster away from oil as new energy strategy due to be unv...

Nicola Sturgeon has said the country must move faster to cut dependence on oil and gas and switch to greener power to...

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over 1 year ago
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Scotland fly-tipping: Calls for tougher action to punish criminals and stamp out ‘blight’ of ille...

Fly-tippers who blight the landscape with illegally dumped waste should feel the full force of the law and be made to...

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over 1 year ago
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Young Scottish sea eagle flies across country to spend festive season with family

A celebrity sea eagle will spend Christmas with her great-great-grandparents after flying across land and sea from th...

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over 1 year ago
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COP15: Historic ‘30 by 30’ deal agreed at United Nations biodiversity summit, but lack of detail ...

A “historic” global deal to safeguard almost a third of the planet for nature by 2030 has been agreed at the United N...

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over 1 year ago
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How research at Scotland’s botanical gardens is helping worldwide understanding of the effects of...

The timing of when plants burst into flower and drop their leaves is being closely studied by experts in Scotland to ...

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over 1 year ago
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Giant new fish farm would be Scotland’s biggest and first to deploy semi-closed pens to lessen ec...

Plans to create a giant new fish farm that will be the largest in Scotland and the first to deploy pioneering technol...

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over 1 year ago
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Avian flu: Wild bird death toll mounts as dead geese and gulls pile up at Findhorn Bay in Moray

The world’s worst ever outbreak of avian flu is continuing to have a devastating impact on wild birds in Scotland, wi...

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over 1 year ago
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Doddie Weir death: Rugby legend’s legacy is work to find MND cure

Scottish rugby hero Doddie Weir’s energy and commitment to finding a cure for the devastating disease which claimed h...

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over 1 year ago
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Sustainable Scotland: Scots firm goes global with ‘weight-drop’ energy storage innovation

An entrepreneurial Scottish firm is set to go global with a pioneering gravity-fed energy storage invention that was ...

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over 1 year ago
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Countdown to UK’s first vertical rocket launch begins as Shetland spaceport construction blasts f...

The final frontier has come a step closer for Scotland as construction of a spaceport in Shetland speeds ahead of sch...

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over 1 year ago
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North Sea boom: £20bn to be spent dismantling and closing down oil and gas fields in next 10 years

There will be a surge of work as £20 billion of operations to dismantle and close down more than 2,000 empty oil and ...

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over 1 year ago
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Fake news: Could climate disinformation threaten global efforts to save the planet from environme...

False beliefs about climate change spread on social media could put United Nations climate goals at risk and hijack t...

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