Philippa Gerrard is Joint Head of Environment & Transport for The Press and Journal and Evening Express. She is interested in everything from electric vehicles to sustainable fashion and produces articles covering a wide variety of environmental and transport issues.
Will Aberdeen’s low emission zone be good for our health?
August 30, 2021
Are supermarkets doing enough to reduce plastic packaging?
August 18, 2021
How to cut half a million car journeys and 32k tonnes of carbon in a year? A new regional railway is the answer
August 16, 2021
Prediction impossible: Why is it so hard to get the north-east’s weather forecast right?
August 14, 2021
The River Spey is slowly suffocating, but why?
August 1, 2021
The River Spey is slowly suffocating, but why?
August 1, 2021
Bog breath: New tech uses satellites to measure how Scotland’s peatlands ‘breathe’
July 25, 2021
Do north-east cycle paths have an accessibility problem?
July 21, 2021
Do north-east cycle paths have an accessibility problem?
July 21, 2021
Beach Clean Champions: Why nurdles are the biggest pollution disaster you’ve never heard of
July 17, 2021
Stamp of approval: Orcadian photographer’s image selected for new Royal Mail stamp
July 16, 2021
Anglers on alert after invasive pink salmon caught in Rivers Dee and Don
July 15, 2021
A route to recovery: First Bus scrap enforced social distancing on buses
July 14, 2021
A route to recovery: First Bus scrap enforced social distancing on buses
July 14, 2021
Beach Clean Champions: Four tonnes of litter removed in one day from the ‘north-east’s worst beach’
July 10, 2021
Beach Clean Champions: Four tonnes of litter removed in one day from the ‘north-east’s worst beach’
July 9, 2021
What a waste: Reader’s anger at online retail’s big packaging problem
July 5, 2021
‘Rubbish from start to finish’: Disposable barbecues banned at Cairngorms Co-op stores
July 1, 2021
‘Rubbish from start to finish’: Disposable barbecues banned at Cairngorms Co-op stores
July 1, 2021
Community clean up challenge collects 1.2 tonnes of marine litter in just two weeks
June 29, 2021
Could sea-skimming ‘flying ferries’ revolutionise links to Scottish islands?
June 28, 2021
Beach Clean Champions: Dirty nappies and wet wipes show the other side of St Cyrus
June 26, 2021
Excessive packaging slammed after Amazon sends single vinegar bottle in huge box
June 17, 2021
Learner drivers in Aberdeen face ‘soul-destroying’ four-month wait for tests
June 8, 2021