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Government advisers call for radical changes, including turning farmland into forests. Tree planting must double by 2020 as part of radical changes to land use in the UK, according to the government’s advisers on climate change. New forests would lock up carbon but...

Conservationists say money is step in the right direction in tackling climate change. More than 10m trees will be planted across England with the injection of £60m of new funding over five years, as part of what the government billed as its “drive to preserve the...

An Edinburgh woman has made the discovery of a lifetime after finding a “one-in-twenty-million” white truffle in her back garden. The woman, who has asked to remain anonymous, discovered the rare delicacy while tending to her vegetable patch in her garden in...

Ben van Beurden says ‘another Brazil in terms of rainforest’ will help achieve UN target. The boss of Shell has said a huge tree-planting project the size of the Amazon rainforest would be needed to meet a tougher global warming target, as he argued more renewable...

England is running out of oak. The last of the trees planted by the Victorians are now being harvested, and in the intervening century so few have been grown – and fewer still grown in the right conditions for making timber – that imports, mostly from the US and...

Britain is set to become the truffle capital of the world within 30 years, scientists have said, as they are developing new genetic approaches to create varieties that grow twice as fast. It comes as a shift in climate means truffle farmers in the Mediterranean are...

A company offering a unique alternative investment opportunity to investors worldwide is the latest to take up office space in The Charlotte Square Collection, in the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town. Truffle Farms Europe Limited (TFE) has moved into the lower ground...