Spain's economic crisis and successive corruption scandals have led to looser environmental regulations which have taken a huge toll on the environment, Greenpeace said in a report published on Wednesday.
Some of Spain’s most famous crops could be at risk as temperatures are set to rise by as much as 5 degrees if nothing is done to tackle climate change, a new report warns.
The Spanish government has pledged over €10 million to protect the country’s coastline from climate change, the first of such measures Spain has taken to reduce environmental damage in the country.
A Spanish environmental activist was arrested in Cambodia Monday and will shortly be deported, officials said, a move described by a rights group as the government's latest attempt to stifle dissent
A brown bear cub that was part of an effort to reintroduce the species to the Pyrenees mountains has been found dead on the Spanish side of the mountain range, local officials said on Monday.
Spain is home to more than 550 at-risk species, by far the highest number in Europe, the latest Red List from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature reveals.
Environmentalists have accused Spain's ruling Popular Party (PP) of being in the pocket of big business after the government on Wednesday voted to postpone an end to shooting in areas where wildlife is protected.
Drillers say have found oil in Moroccan waters just 200 kilometres (125 miles) from Spain's Canary Islands, a possible game changer as Canarians prepare to vote on whether Spanish energy giant Repsol should be allowed to search for oil in the waters off the archipelago.
Spain will be able to boast of having a record 681 high quality 'Blue Flag' beaches this summer, 34 more than in 2014 and the highest number in the world.
Albino California king snakes, originally brought to the island as pets decades ago, could take over 70 percent of the Spanish island of Gran Canaria, experts are warning.
Chemical pollutants found in rivers in Spain's Basque Country are acting like oestrogens on the local male fish stock and allowing them to form eggs in their testicles, a new report shows.
Madrid zoo has a new resident after Gorka the gorilla gave birth on Saturday. New photographs from Monday show mother and child enjoying bright spring sunshine.
Campaigners warned on Thursday of environmental threats from new oil-prospecting projects off Spain's Balearic and Canary Islands, two major tourist destinations.
Authorities have raised an air pollution alert for the Spanish city of Barcelona, a major tourist draw which has lain for days under a toxic grey mist, an official said on Tuesday.
The European Parliament has narrowly rejected a ban on bottom trawling, blamed by environmentalists for massive deep-sea destruction but defended by Spain and France.
The health risks of long-term exposure to air pollution are more serious than previously thought, a high-profile new study shows. The Local spoke to one of the researchers to find out what this means for Spain.
Spanish energy giant Repsol is one of only 90 firms responsible for two thirds of all man-made global warming since the beginning of the industrial revolution, new research reveals.
Spain will appeal for damages over the Prestige tanker disaster which choked its northwest coast in oil, the government said on Monday, after a court acquitted all defendants of causing the spill.
A leading German newspaper has labelled Madrid "the capital of rubbish" as the city's street cleaners' strike enters its second week with no end in sight.
The latest nail in the coffin for Spain’s solar energy producers is an Energy Law amendment which allows inspectors to enter private properties without a court order. It's a move lawyers believe could set a worrying precedent.
A giant squid washed ashore in northern Spain recently, with the odd-looking 9-metre (30 foot) long creature causing both amazement and disgust among locals.
