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How much are solar panels in Spain and are they worth it? All you need to know as figures...

THE number of homeowners installing solar panels on their properties in Spain fell by almost 50% last year as enthusiasm for solar energy begins...

Sahara dust and an anticyclone: The latest weather forecast for southern Spain this week with temperatures remaining higher than...

DUST from the Sahara Desert is set to hit southern Spain this week as temperatures continue to remain unseasonably high. Hazy conditions - known as...

‘Historic heat’: Temperatures surpass 29C in Spain with January records broken across the country, including in Valencia and Malaga

SPAIN experienced a day of historic heat on Thursday as unseasonably high temperatures saw records broken across the country for the fourth consecutive month. Chelva...

EXCLUSIVE: Remembering Spain’s horror drought of 1995: How the streets of the Costa del Sol ‘stank of sewage’ and...

WITH Andalucia currently in the midst of its longest drought in over 50 years, local authorities and residents are growing increasingly concerned about dwindling...

December temperatures in Spain break new record highs, putting ski season at risk

FOR THE THIRD time this year, Spain has seen a monthly temperature record smashed, after the mercury reached 29.9ºC on Tuesday in the southern...

Summer 2022 was the hottest in Spain for 700 years, data collected by TREE rings reveal

SPAIN experienced its hottest summer last year in 700 years, according to analysis of tree rings from north-east Spain which contain key insights about...

NASA confirms last July was the hottest month ever registered on the planet 

LAST July was the hottest month ever registered on Earth, according to NASA’s global temperature analysis.  The U.S government agency has confirmed last month was...

This July could be the hottest ever on Earth in the last 120,000 years 

THIS July could become the hottest ever on the planet in the last 120,000 years, according to a Leipzig University study.  The research confirms that...

Weather expert warns that climate change is turning Spain’s Sevilla into a desert

MIDWEEK forecasts of temperatures reaching 41 degrees in Sevilla have come as no surprise with the Andalucian city in recent years hitting those highs...

Greenpeace calls for faster action to save Spain from ravages of climate change

A NEW REPORT from Greenpeace has highlighted the effects of climate change on Spain and has called for tough action soon to counter its...

Alarming loss of insect species in Mediterranean forests caused by global warming says study in Spain’s Costa Blanca

AN Alicante University study says that global warming has caused an 'alarming' loss of insect species in Mediterranean forests. The report from the university's Ibero-American...

Summers in Spain’s Malaga are FIVE WEEKS longer than four decades ago study reveals

NEW climate change data has revealed that Malaga summers are now five weeks longer than they were in the 80s. According to Predictia, a spin-off...

Two climate activists swim naked in front of the Royal Palace in Madrid 

Two activists of climate group Futuro Vegetal swam naked in a fountain just outside the Royal Palace in Madrid on Thursday evening. The two women,...

The number of summer days in Spain has increased from 90 to 145 in the last 50 years study...

THE number of summer days in the main Spanish cities has increased from 90 to 145 in the last 50 years, according to a...

Winter drought reduces Spain’s reservoirs to national average water capacity of 50.7%

SPAIN'S reservoirs are at 50.7% capacity as the effects of the winter drought continue to bite. It means they are storing 28,400 cubic hectares of...

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez checks out fight against fierce Castellon forest fire

PRIME MINISTER Pedro Sanchez visited Castellon province on Monday to get a first-hand view on the fire that has ravaged 4,000 hectares and forced...

Artificial sand dunes to protect beaches as part of ‘Green Benidorm’ project in Spain

PLANS for new initiatives under the umbrella title of 'Green Benidorm' have been unveiled, including the construction of artificial sand dunes to protect the...

Spain most at risk of climate change effects according to alarming new report

Spain is one of the EU countries most at risk from the climate crisis, according to an alarming report from a Spanish think-tank.  Madrid-based Instituto...

Building for the future: Andalucian luxury villa to be ‘Spain’s first carbon-zero home’ powered by unique hydrogen system

A PROJECT for what is claimed to be the first zero-carbon luxury home utilising a hydrogen generating system in Spain has gone on sale. Running...

CLIMATE CHANGE: Spain’s Malaga to restrict traffic in the centre and soho from January 1, 2024

MALAGA will have a Low Emission Zone (LEZ) at the beginning of next year. Restricted access to road traffic is a requirement of the Climate...

Activists glue themselves to Spain’s Congress of Deputies in protest over climate emergency

CLIMATE activists from a Spanish organisation called Futuro Vegetal (Vegetable Future) glued themselves to the microphones at the lectern in the Congress of Deputies...

As COP27 climate conference starts in Egypt, Greenpeace calls on Spanish PM for better access to renewables 

ENVIRONMENTAL campaigning organisation Greenpeace staged a demonstration on Sunday in Madrid, to coincide with the start of the COP27 United Nations Climate Change Conference...

Environmental protestors glue hands to Goya paintings in Spain’s world-famous Prado Museum

TWO CLIMATE activists glued their hands to the frames of Goya’s Las Majas paintings in Madrid’s Prado Museum on Saturday, in the latest of...
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Areas of Spain that could be underwater by 2050 if sea levels keep rising

Thousands of homes and businesses in Andalucia and along the Costa Blanca could be completely submerged in water by 2050, new research shows.  According to...
Spain water shortages

Eye-watering figure needed to fix Andalucia drought crisis in Spain

WATER levels inside Andalucian dams are at record lows and the region’s government has a solution, but it won’t be cheap. Andalucia needs €5 billion...

Climate change: When will we deal with the elephant in the room?

Eyes Wide Shut. NO not the 1999 Stanley Kubrick film starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. I refer to the inactivity of the world’s leaders...

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