The Eco Garden: Keep the garden pests at bay with beer and bird droppings
Don’t automatically reach for the chemical sprays, because there are plenty of ecological alternatives to ensure that you keep your garden safe for the family, pets and wildlife
Expat writer Chris Stewart slams Spain’s solar power regulation plans
If new government regulations are passed, tariffs will be 27% higher for those generating energy at home
Dead dolphins found off Spain’s southern coast ‘had Alzheimer’s’
The study reveals that dolphins were found to have the same protein clusters found in Alzheimer patients.
A scenic walking tour of Andalucia’s La Brena forest
Walking guide Guy Hunter-Watts suggests a great shady summer walk around Canos de Meca
EU provides record funding to build new power cable between France and Spain
The submarine cable, costing €578 million, will run for 230 miles across the Bay of Biscay to help ease one of Europe’s worst network bottlenecks.
Human waste photographed at natural park in Malaga
PHOTOS of human feces and fast food wrappers strewn across a protected natural park have been exclusively obtained by the Olive Press.
The images, taken at Sierra de...
A HUGE unprecedented snowfall has cut off many roads in the Ronda mountains
Many other inland areas also had snow while even Malaga, Mijas and Cartama saw the white stuff
Greenpeace protest boat in Huelva over toxic waste marshes
Following four years of no action taken, Greenpeace arrives to spread information on the danger of the radioactive waste produced by fertilizer company Feriberia
Oh, I do like to be beside the lakeside
Jon Clarke explains why the Andalucian lake district is a good alternative to the coast
Only 10% of Malaga dogs register on dog poo DNA database as Benalmadena and Estepona eye up initiative
ONLY 10% of Malaga's dogs have been registered on the new DNA database.
Just a few weeks after the voluntary deadline to register ended on...
Baby flamingos fly off-target from breeding area on Spain’s Costa Blanca
SOME of the 800 flamingos born last spring on Torrevieja's salt lake have found it tricky to get their sense of direction.
The UK joins the battle against the ‘olive ebola’ as it spreads through Europe
PRINCE Charles is pleading with the UK government to ban the import of plants that might have the ‘olive Ebola’ virus that has wreaked...
WATCH: ‘Snow’ falling on Costa del Sol beach
The amazing video shows snow falling and accumulating on the beach
Spain is second highest importer of lion hunting trophies, new report finds
Conservationists are calling for a blanket ban on all hunting trophies
Spain records warmest winter this century
SPAIN has recorded its warmest winter this century so far.
Whale of a time in the deepest part of the Straits of Gibraltar
WE are about between Spain and Morocco in the deepest part of the Straits of Gibraltar.
Flying fish, turtles and two types of whale...
Last year was the warmest year in Europe’s history
LAST year was the warmest year in Europe’s history, it has been announced.
Pigging out: Spain’s agrarian sector rose for second year in the row
Animal production continues to dominate compared to weaker vegetal data numbers, part of which was caused by an increase in wildfires and drought this year.
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 dependent
OPINION; UN involvement in Almeria olivos scandal is positive step
IT’S great to see that the United Nations are taking the environmental concerns of David Dene seriously.
In this day and age we need to...
The monkey with no name – Bioparc Fuengirola’s adorable new addition
Fuengirola Bioparc's new addition is the first golden-cheeked gibbon to be born in Spain, and the latest to be born on the continent
Ramblers fight back
Ronda ramblers association suing the town hall over series of blocked footpaths
13,000 flamingos born at Fuente de Piedra nature reserve
The new arrivals will be tagged and inspected in the coming weeks
Bison found poisoned and decapitated on a Spanish reserve
The herd was poisoned first so that their heads could be cut off and sold
More than 100 landslides recorded in Mijas and Fuengirola as rain continues to batter Costa del Sol
103 litres of rain fell on the area in just two hours
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