Environment

'Ugly, unloved and an environmental drain, but Brutalist Argyle House is worth saving'

Award-winning architect Malcolm Fraser makes the case against ripping it up and starting again

Mar 10 • Ilona Amos

The city’s biggest grassroots football club versus a council depot

The fight to secure a permanent home for one of the Capital’s sporting success stories

Feb 28

What can we do about Edinburgh's ‘soulless’ canalside?

Edinburgh Quay should be one of the city’s crown jewels, but instead it is pretty vacant

Feb 24 • Jolene Campbell

Huge city data centre blocked as campaigners hail 'momentous' move

Plus your cultural highlights for the week ahead

Feb 4 • Edinburgh Inquirer

How Lothians' former coalmines could heat our homes again

Award-winning engineer Corey Boyle on the sustainable heating resource that lies below thousands of our homes

Feb 3

The fight to stop the Radical Road being closed for ever

The reopening of part of the famous path below Salisbury Crags could come with a sting in the tail

Jan 29 • Edinburgh Inquirer

A very human hill: how we shaped Arthur’s Seat and its surroundings over six millenia

Taking a walk through the history of our most famous natural landmark

Jan 17 • Sarah McArthur

It will kill 40,000 sea birds to help hit our Net Zero targets

Will the green energy from the giant Berwick Bank wind farm come at too high a price for the Forth’s wildlife?

Jan 13 • Joe Coroneo-Seaman

'The Cockburn has a reputation for saying no, but honestly it's not deserved'

Conservation charity's new director on a bad rap, supporting ambition, and the problem with Waverley Station

Jan 6 • Ilona Amos

The night runners of the Pentlands

"It feels like the closest thing I do as an adult to 'play'"

Dec 9, 2025 • Edinburgh Inquirer

We're one of the most congested cities in the UK. Here's how to tackle that.

Award-winning engineer Corey Boyle on breaking the Capital's over-reliance on the car

Nov 25, 2025

Are the Capital’s green spaces as green as they used to be?

As volunteers returf one city park, blaming the council for dragging its feet - how big a problem is erosion in Edinburgh?

Oct 16, 2025 • Sarah McArthur

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