Vicky Allan
Features Writer at The Herald (Scotland)
Creature from the deep. Herald environment journo and author. Books: Art of Wild Swimming, Still Hot, Trees, Stray. All about the planet & the wild.
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4 days ago |
heraldscotland.com | Vicky Allan
Firefighters have been tackling a wildfire in Galloway Forest Park (Galloway Mountain Rescue Team/PA) An economic report had laid out the devastating impact climate change could have on the Scottish economy if mitigation measures are not pursued. Not tackling climate change, it says, could leave Scotland between £30 billion and £140 billion poorer by 2035, and “bankrupt the Scottish economy”.
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Vicky Allan
Professor Johan Rockstrom has his eye on the life support monitor of planet Earth (Image: Derek McArthur) This article appears as part of the Winds of Change newsletter If there’s one scientist in the world who has the big brain overview on the health of planet Earth, it has to be Professor Johan Rockström, the man behind the planetary boundaries framework - the idea that the health of the Earth can be assessed through nine categories, with vital signs, and possible tipping points, that we...
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Vicky Allan
3 1/1 When, in 1901, Dr William Gallagher attended the death of Murray Hall at 145 Sixth Avenue, in Greenwich Village, New York, what he found was not what he expected. The bail bondsman, gambler, brawler and local party figure mired in the corruption-entangled world of Tammany Hall politics had died of breast cancer. Such was his shock that though the death was by natural causes, he felt the need to alert the coroner.
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1 week ago |
heraldscotland.com | Vicky Allan
An alert was issued by the European Commission over steroid found in UK salmon Steroids were found in a consignment of salmon arriving into France from the UK, according to a notification from the European Commission’s food and feed alert system. Used in some countries to boost salmon growth, steroids are, according to agriculture specialist Mark Borthwick, prohibited for use in fish farming in the UK, as they pose “significant risks to fish welfare and human health”.
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2 weeks ago |
heraldscotland.com | Vicky Allan
Winds of Change newsletter on wildfires (Image: Colin Mearns/Derek McArthur) This article is delivered as part of the Winds of Change newsletter. It’s shocking to see the images of any wildfire, the landscape lit by flames or shrouded in an orange mist, and then to hear the stories of the battle by firefighters to put it out, water-bombings, the rescuing of campers from a hill as the fire encroached.
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"A very enjoyable novel." Allan Massie rews Murray Hall, my collaborative novel with @MiloClenshaw about the queer life of a historical figure who rocked 1901 New York. Out 17th April, but we will also be talking at Waterstones Argyle St on 15th https://t.co/mdnuy5PugH
RT @ScotlandTBP: The Glencoe Riverwoods project seeks to restore the woodland corridors and wetlands that once defined Glencoe’s rivers, gi…
Loved listening to Fiona on the Arts Mix!
@EdinTradfest in MAY but first .... I can not wait, @FionaSoePaing Playing at Glad Cafe Glasgow, 20th April, book #doricQueen please RT @vicky_allan coooomsie... https://t.co/b1V60URDKs
