A wind farm in southern Scotland has been given the all clear to pass the 100-turbine mark. The Kilgallioch development straddles the border between Dumfries and Galloway and South Ayrshire. It currently has 96 turbines but the Scottish government has now approved the construction of a further 11. It said Read more…
Thirty years ago, Donnie and Evelyn Morrison built their home in the quiet Weisdale Valley of the Shetland Islands, on the same site where Donnie’s grandfather lived in the early 1900s. The original house on the site dated back to the 1750s, and had fallen into disrepair since his grandfather’s Read more…
Sleeping people respond to both wind farm noise and road traffic noise, but not usually enough to wake them up, according to new Flinders University research. Published in the Journal of Sleep Research, researchers used an electroencephalogram (EEG) to analyse the brainwaves of 23 young healthy people while they experienced Read more…