climate change
Our digital heritage research covers key periods of environmental change.
FLOW COUNTRY
The Flow Country is an area of deep peat, dotted with bog pools, that forms the heart of the Caithness and Sutherland peatlands.
The serial property, located in the Highland Region of Scotland, is considered the most outstanding example of an actively accumulating blanket bog landscape. This peatland ecosystem, which has been accumulating for the past 9,000 years, provides a diversity of habitats home to a distinct combination of bird species and displays a remarkable diversity of features not found anywhere else on Earth. Peatlands play an important role in storing carbon and the property’s ongoing peat-forming ecological processes continue to sequester carbon on a very large scale, representing a significant research and educational resource. – UNESCO
JURASSIC COAST
The Jurassic coastline at Helmsdale has many interesting geological features and is well worth a visit to explore the rocky foreshore.
The Jurassic land and seascape looked quite different from today, with tropical ferns and ginkgo trees growing on the cliff tops and colonies of coral growing along a great barrier reef. There was a great variety of sea life, including molluscs and large predatory marine reptiles.
Beatrice Offshore Windfarm
It is one of Scotland’s largest operational offshore wind farms and can provide enough wind-powered electricity for up to 450,000 homes.
Located around 13.5km from the Caithness coastline, Beatrice Offshore Windfarm comprises 84 Siemens Gamesa 7MW wind turbines and is operated and maintained by a team of up to 90 people from the wind farm’s operations and maintenance base at Wick Harbour.
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