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With COP 26 Pushed to Late 2021 Due to Pandemic, World Leaders Urged Not to Delay Climate Action

An activist from Fridays for Future in a face mask with the inscription "Fight every crisis" takes part in the alternative climate strike on the Reichstag meadow in Berlin.

Delaying #COP26 Over Coronavirus, Say Green Groups, 'Is Not an Excuse to Postpone Climate Ambition!'

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

Sir David Attenborough and United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson

Activists urged world leaders to learn from the pandemic "about the importance of listening to science and the need for urgent collective global action."

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Scottish Government Decries "Devastating" Effect Post-Brexit Border Policy Will Have on Economy

Julia Conley, staff writer

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon issued a call for a Scottish visa, which...

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After Scotland Decisively Rejects Brexit and the Tories in General Election, SNP's Sturgeon Calls for Second Independence Referendum

Julia Conley, staff writer

"Given what I fear the Tory government now has in store for Scotland, that...

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US President Donald Trump drives a golf buggy on his golf course at the Trump Turnberry resort in June 2019.

Trump's Use of Pentagon Cash to Prop Up Scottish Resort Latest Example of Why He 'Must Be Impeached': AOC

Greenpeace Campaigners Stop BP Rig Bound for North Sea, Stalling Fossil Fuel Giant's Plan to Extract 30 Million Barrels of Oil

Activists inflated a huge warming earth globe outside Scottish government headquarters at St Andrew's House in Edinburgh in 2017 to highlight the emergency of climate change.

Citing Recent Protests, Wales Declares Climate Emergency

Scottish Protesters Greet 'Tiny-Fingered, Cheeto-Faced, Ferret-Wearing Shitgibbon' Trump with Even Better Signs Than English

'Well Below Par': Paraglider Fly-By Swipes Trump at President's Scottish Golf Resort

After Overwhelming Public Opposition, Scotland Announces Fracking Ban

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As Scotland Vows 100% Transition to Electric Cars, US Caves to Auto Industry's Dirty Demands

Pennsylvanians Beg Scotland to Reject First Shipment of US Fracked Gas

Grounded 17,000-Ton Oil Rig Leaking Diesel Near Rare North Sea Habitat

Theresa May Says "Yes," She's Prepared to Kill Hundreds of Thousands in Nuke Attack

Passing Ban, Scottish Parliament Declares: 'No Ifs, No Buts, No Fracking'

People Demand 'Banks for the Common Good' to Overthrow Multinational Behemoths

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Friends of the Earth Scotland

Campaigners Welcome New Public Bank to Finance Action on Climate Crisis

Friends of the Earth Scotland

1,000 Organisations End Investment in Fossil Fuel Companies

Friends of the Earth Scotland

Fury at SNP Climate Hypocrisy

Friends of the Earth

Business 2020 Climate Group To Wind Up

Friends of the Earth

Ineos Legal Challenge To Scottish Fracking Ban Reeks Of Desperation

Friends of the Earth

Scottish Government Urged To Act On Climate Emergency

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Juan Cole

75% of Scotland's Electricity Now Green; All Cars Electric by 2032

Richard Leonard

'You Shall Not Pass': Why Scotland Stands Against Trump

Juan Cole

Three Countries Show How Near a 100% Green Grid Is

Juan Cole

Wind Powered All of Scotland in October and Other Renewable Success Stories

Juan Cole

As Trump & Pruitt Unleash Climate Demons, Scientists Dream of Atlantic Wind Farm

Shaun Burnie

Five Years on and the Fukushima Crisis Is Far From Over

Kezia Dugdale

People My Age Have Had Their Aspirations Crushed by Austerity - It's Time to Change That

David Morris

Scotland and Catalonia: Fraternal But Not Twins

John Hopkins

How the UK’s Establishment Stamped on Scottish Independence

Rupert Read

Scotland Stays, But UK Needs a Constitutional Convention Now