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Mallorca in Spain’s Balearic Islands runs out of Honey
BEEKEEPERS in Mallorca have lost the entire summer honey harvest due to the high temperatures.
The heat caused a decrease in the production of Honeydew...
WATCH: Call for ban on tourist carriages after horse collapses in heat during Malaga feria on Spain’s Costa del...
CALLS to ban tourist carriages have reignited after yet another horse collapsed in the extreme heat, this time during Malaga’s feria.
The animal rights party...
New heatwave to scorch Spain from Friday—with country on track for the hottest summer in recorded history
SPAIN'S national Met Office, AEMET, has set a date for the return of scorchio heat in Spain and the arrival of temperatures more typical—and...
Week one of Spain’s energy saving measures produces 3.7% fall in consumption
ELECTRICITY usage in Spain fell by 3.7% in the first week of measures introduced by the government to reduce demand on gas generated energy.
The...
Olive farmers in Spain’s Costa Blanca and Valencia areas set to forget harvest as production costs soar
OLIVE farmers in the Valencian Community may forget this year's harvest as the costs of olive-picking and making olive oil are too high.
Extreme weather...
Worries about heatwave fires forces natural park closures across Costa Blanca and Valencia areas of Spain
FEARS of forest fires with temperatures tipped to easily exceed 40 degrees has forced most of the natural parks in the Valencian Community to...
Spain’s winemakers battle to save harvest as heatwaves and drought takes toll
THE effects of successive heatwaves and drought are threatening this year’s wine harvest across Spain.
An exceptionally hot and dry summer has left grapes withering...
Spain suffers ice shortage
THE soaring cost of electricity is being blamed for an ice shortage across Spain as it suffers in the grip of the third heatwave...
Official guide to keeping cool as Spain suffers in third heatwave of the summer
SPAIN is been in the grip of yet another heatwave with temperatures predicted to hit over 40ºC once again.
But while the 'ola de calor'...
Spain sizzles in third heatwave of the summer
IT has only been the briefest of respites, but Spain is set to sizzle once again as the third heatwave of the summer reaches...
Scorchio! These are officially the hottest towns in Spain
SPAIN is sizzling in what is the first official heatwave of the year, sending the mercury soaring across much of the peninsula, to temperatures...
Spain’s Andalucia set to sizzle in hottest day of year predicted for August 6
AUGUST will see highs above 40ºC and tropical nights scorch Andalucia with a new heatwave on its way.
According to weather portal eltiempo.es Summer will...
Pedro Sanchez unveils surprising new energy saving tip for workers in Spain
PRIME Minister Pedro Sanchez claims that workers can save energy by not wearing ties after appearing tieless at a Madrid news conference on Friday.
He...
Temperature records smashed as southern Costa Blanca sizzled in Spain
TEMPERATURE records were smashed on Monday as southern parts of Alicante Province sizzled in a heatwave.
Alicante-Elche airport logged its highest temperature since opening in...
MAP: Images from space show in real time where wildfires raging in Spain
WILDFIRES are raging across Spain in what is already the worst year for blaze devastation in at least a decade.
A map produced by Nasa...
Two dead, 60,000 hectares charred in wildfires across Spain
SPANISH authorities have confirmed that at least 60,000 hectares of forest and agricultural land in Spain have gone up in flames in the last...
Spain counts the toll of week long heatwave with at least 360 dead
AS the heatwave in Spain finally begins to ease as temperatures drop for the first time in more than eight days, the true cost...
WEATHER: Brief respite before possible new heatwave hits Spain’s Andalucia
ANDALUCIA, which sizzled last week to a deadly heatwave that placed the entire country at ‘extreme fire risk’, may be hit by a new...
Wildfire claims second life as Spain’s heatwave enters eighth day and almost entire country at ‘extreme fire risk’
A SECOND person has died in a forest fire raging across the Zamora countryside in Castilla y Leon as Spain’s eight wave entered its...
Spain registered 43 deaths in the first two days of the heatwave
HIGH temperatures caused 43 deaths in Spain during the first two days of the current heat wave, Sunday, July 10 and Monday, July 11,...
Scorching temperatures in Spain claims 43 lives in first two days of heatwave
THE ongoing blistering heatwave in Spain—with mercury rising above 45ºC in some areas—has already claimed 43 lives.
The Carlos III Health Institute, which reports to...
Heatwave: 10 essential tips from Spain’s Ministry of Health
IN the face of the current heatwave, the Spanish Government has activated a prevention plan with essential tips on how best to get through...
Ice lolly treats for zoo animals in Spain
AS temperatures soar to well above 30 degrees, a Spanish zoo has decided to treat its animals to cooling ice creams.
But these frozen treats...
Spain’s Sevilla to classify heatwaves and give them names to warn public of danger
TROPICAL storms and hurricanes have been named for years, but now Sevilla will become the first city in the world to classify and christen...
ANALYSIS: Why is Spain getting hotter every year?
This year, summer has only just begun and 2022 has already experienced record-breaking temperatures with Spain’s warmest May in 58 years, writes Livia Cockerell
Heatwave: How unseasonably high temperatures are taking a toll on Spain’s nesting birds
BABY birds are crawling out of their nests and plummeting to their deaths as they try to escape soaring temperatures one of the earliest...
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