The only tree on an island, an elm that travelled the world and a willow from Napoleon Bonaparte’s grave are among the contenders to be named Scotland’s Tree of the Year. Six trees in all – the ...

Using old tree rings and archival documents, historians and climate scientists have detailed an extreme cold period in Scotland in the 1690s that caused immense suffering. It decimated agriculture, ...

Sarah Helen Watts receives funding from the University of Stirling, Woodland Trust, Corrour Estate, Forest Research, The Scottish Forestry Trust, The National Trust for Scotland, Future Woodlands ...

The Scots pines that are thought to have largely covered the country thousands of years ago are greatly reduced, but just how big the forest memorialized in Roman texts was is not clear. A view of ...