Scotland

No cervical cancer cases in HPV-vaccinated women in Scotland

January 22, 2024 | By Peter Schulte | -, Change Milestones

A new study from Public Health Scotland has found that no cases of cervical cancer have been detected in young women who have been fully-vaccinated as part of the HPV immunization program, concluding that the vaccine was “highly effective” in preventing the development of the cancer. Scotland’s HPV vaccination program started in 2008 with girls offered the vaccine in their first year at secondary school.

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In Scotland, renewable power has outstripped demand

January 1, 2024 | By Peter Schulte | -, Change Milestones

For the first time, in 2022, Scottish renewables generated more power than the country used, new government figures show. The growth of wind power, coupled with a small drop in electricity consumption, meant that the volume of electricity produced by renewables in Scotland was equal to 113 percent of demand.

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National Museum of Scotland returns stolen totem pole to Nisga’a people after 100 years

October 2, 2023 | By Peter Schulte | -, Change Milestones

It was a historic “rematriation” for the Indigenous nation of around 600 people in what is now known to many as Canada’s British Columbia. The return of the Ni’isjoohl pole could also set a precedent in a broader repatriation movement gaining steam around the world.

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Scottish government plans trial of four-day week in civil service

September 4, 2023 | By Peter Schulte | -, Change Milestones

Adopting a four-day week has won significant political support, including from Scottish Labour and the Welsh government, but so far only South Cambridgeshire district council has introduced pilot projects to test it in practice, with some success.

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The world’s first rewilding center opens in Scotland

April 18, 2023 | By Peter Schulte | -, Change Milestones

The Dundreggan Rewilding Centre in Glenmoriston offers a gateway to the U.K.’s largest nature recovery site. The 10,000-acre landscape is being nursed back to health by the charity Trees for Life, which bought the site in 2008.

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Scotland becomes world’s first country to ban environmentally harmful anesthetic

March 3, 2023 | By Peter Schulte | -, Change Milestones

NHS data suggests the gas, used to keep people unconscious during surgery, has a global warming potential 2,500 times greater than carbon dioxide.

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Giant, megawatt-scale wave energy generator to be tested in Scotland

October 18, 2022 | By Peter Schulte | -, Change Milestones

Irish company OceanEnergy has signed on to a four-year project to test, validate and commercialize he OE35, billed as the world’s largest capacity floating wave energy device, off the coast of Orkney, Scotland.

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Scotland’s forests are the largest they have been for 900 years

April 11, 2022 | By Peter Schulte | -, Change Milestones

The share of Scotland that is forested has increased from 6 percent a century ago to around 18 percent today.

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Scotland to plan millions of trees next to rivers in bid to protect wild salmon

February 4, 2022 | By Peter Schulte | -, Change Milestones

Fisheries scientists have found rivers and burns in the Highlands and uplands are already too warm in summer for wild Atlantic salmon as they head upstream to spawn, increasing the threat to the species’ survival.

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Scotland ends all coal power

December 10, 2021 | By Peter Schulte | Change Milestones

Scotland has marked the end of its coal-powered history by demolishing the huge chimney at its last remaining coal plant at Longannet in Fife.

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