Barbecues forbidden as fire ban comes into effect across Andalucia
The ban is an attempt to reduce the risk of forest fires
Groundbreaking eco Lego style plastic house factory to open in Malaga
Lego-style houses are becoming a reality, thanks to savvy Ronda-based estate agent Thorwald Bodensiek who is building one of Europe’s first recycled plastic brick factories
SUMMER IS COMING: Andalucia braces for the heat as temperatures reach 36C
Spain's weather agency AEMET has warned of high UV levels from today
Junta commit to green energy in Andalucia
Officials want to reduce the region’s energy consumption by 25%
Number of Andalucia drowning deaths in 2017 already equal to last year
Every year, more than 400 people drown in Spain
Mallorca campaigners and MP rage at ‘illegal’ 35,000-tonne shipment of Sahara Desert sand
Ship's cargo must not be unloaded in Palma, insist local protestors
Andalucian firms lead green revolution in Americas
Forward-thinking businesses in Malaga, Sevilla and Granada are among those developing the renewable energy sector in countries including Mexico, Panama and Chile
Spain Government forced to deny ‘unfairly’ slashing funds for Donana National Park
It comes after Andalucia’s PSOE slammed PP leaders for massively reducing Doñana’s state funding from €428,000 in 2016 to just €142,000 this year
€75 million to be pumped into sustainable building projects across Andalucia
The Junta is financing environmentally-sound and long-lasting projects that will come to fruition before 2020
Green group urges investigation into potential unlawful water extraction in superintensive olive grove in Almeria
Ecologistas en Accion has urged the Spanish Prosecution Service to investigate the unnamed business, which is currently carrying out suspicious activity in a super intensive
Spain has the most Blue-Flag beaches in the world
Spain has been at the top of the list of countries with the most Blue Flag beaches for the past three decades
Plastic cups and plates to be banned on Mallorca
The law has been a year in the making and contains 62 articles
New ‘community police force’ and segways for cops announced by Calvia town hall for the summer
Some 40 lifeguards will watch the waves
15 injured in Chemical factory explosions in Spain
Three people have been seriously injured
Walking trails hailed as key to sustainable tourism in Andalucia
Teresa Rodriguez, General Secretary of Podemos Andalucia, said that the Junta should do more to showcase the region’s 10,000km of trails as a green, responsible
Marivent Palace’s royal gardens in Mallorca open to public for first time after €217,000 makeover
Marivent Palace is the official summer residence of former King Juan Carlos and Queen Sofia
Seabin project partners with Port Adriano in fight aganist plastic pollution
Port agrees to give lessons to local schools
Brits caught having sex in public in Mallorca to be slapped with HUGE fine under new laws
They have been described as 'very necessary' by the council
Building sand castles among new ‘offences’ Brits in Magaluf can be fined €100 for
Boxing and arm wrestling machines have also been outlawed
Magaluf numbers ‘flat’ while bookings to party hotspots in Greece and Bulgaria soar by 400%
MAGALUF is slipping down the ranks among young Brits looking for a partying holiday. Although still a popular choice, according to head of Party Hard
Hunting licence renewals drop in Spain and Andalucia
A total of 2,936 permisos in the region lapsed without renewal in 2016, much higher than in Madrid (1,803) and Cataluña (1,423), the other top
Fuengirola Beavers and Cubs take part in bike maintenance session
They celebrated receiving their cycling skills badges with a bike ride along the town’s riverside park to a nearby park.
Oasis of hope: Oro del Desierto olive grove’s ethos could be sustainable solution to Almeria’s superintensive olive farms crisis
Tabernas’s Oro del Desierto olive grove is a different world to the vast super-intensive farms it neighbours, which are sapping the region of its life
‘Ecocide’: Super-intensive olive farms fingered for water shortages in Almeria
Now 400 times more water is being taken from an important Almeria aquifer than enters, an alarming situation that is being blamed on a surge
Three hundred illegal wells shut down in Donana in bid to stop landowners draining wetlands
Junta officials swooped on the sites which unscrupulous parties had been using to tap an aquifer on which the Sevilla and Huelva-based national park is
Costa del Sol beaches suffer battering again by winds causing ‘worst damage in 22 years’
Torremolinos that suffered the worst hit, with sand swept onto the promenade and flooding.