Environment

Sainsbury’s says white eggs have a lower carbon footprint than brown eggs and is moving its own brand egg range away from brown shells as part of its net zero strategy. Modern Scot asks whether a supermarket should be allowed to rank living creatures

A conservation project is asking people along Scotland’s east coast to help find wood sage and the bordered brown lacewing, one of the UK’s rarest insects, before it disappears from view. People along Scotland’s east coast are being asked to help search more than