Environment

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 •

The Capital has adopted the UK’s toughest ban on fossil fuel ads

When will it bite and how might it affect life in the Capital?

Oct 9 •

Joe Coroneo-Seaman

Helsinki just had a year with no road deaths

What can Scotland’s second most deadly city learn from the Finnish capital?

Sep 30 •

'We can't just build our way out of this crisis. It needs more.'

Charity leader Ewan Aitken on what it will take to tackle the Capital's housing emergency

Sep 17

Was ‘traffic-free’ Cowgate the pedestrian paradise we dreamed of?

Bars and music venues were bursting at the seams but the traffic closure experiment was not without its issues

Sep 4 •

Battery-powered trams, cycling squeezed and a cash conundrum

The Capital tries to plot a route to a bigger tram network

Aug 28 •

First e-bikes, next e-scooters? Edinburgh to consider testing more electric transport

Paris dumped its mass e-scooter scheme, but Edinburgh may be ready to (tentatively) embrace one

Aug 21 •

Are wildfires the new normal for Edinburgh and the Lothians?

Blazes are on the rise and our assumptions about 'soggy Scotland' are not helping

Aug 16 •

The home improvement scheme making some people homeless

Residents struggling to pay £20,000-plus bills for forced retrofits of their homes are finally to get more help

Jul 22

The £2 billion potential of district heating systems for the Lothians

New study maps benefits of 30 local ‘heat zones’ from Leith to Longniddry

Jun 26

Finding hope among Edinburgh's vanishing bowling greens

Bittersweet times for sport as city food growing project brings new use to declining lawns

Jun 19

How data will reshape George Street for the 21st century

City's transport convener sets out his vision for the heart of the New Town

Jun 18 •

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