A huge wildfire in southern Spain has been brought under control after it raged for seven days, killing a firefighter and forcing 2,600 people from their homes, regional officials said Tuesday.
Light rain gave some breathing room to crews struggling Monday to battle a "monster" wildfire in southern Spain which killed a firefighter and forced the evacuation of around 2,600 people.
A firefighter was killed on Thursday battling a wind-fuelled wildfire in southern Spain which forced the evacuation of hundreds of people and closed a key highway, local officials said.
Tens of thousands of people formed a human chain around Spain's crisis-hit Mar Menor lagoon on Saturday in a show of mourning after tonnes of dead fish washed ashore, organisers and officials said.
Thousands of dead fish have washed up on the coast of Spain’s Murcia region for the past week. What’s behind this environmental catastrophe that keeps getting worse year after year?
In the next 80 years, rising sea levels of up to 81 cm along the Spanish coastline will see beaches submerged underwater and coastal urban areas and ports threatened. Here are the cities in Spain that NASA and the IPCC reveal will be the hardest hit.
Firefighters gained ground Monday against a wildfire in central Spain that forced hundreds from their homes, as their colleagues across the border battled a blaze in southern Portugal.
Spain saw its highest temperature on record on Saturday as a heatwave on the Iberian peninsula drove the mercury to 47.4°C (117.3°F), according to provisional data from the state meteorological agency.
July 2021 marks the month with the highest temperatures since records began 142 years ago, according to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Here's how the rising temperatures are affecting countries covered by The Local.
Firefighters battled three wildfires in Spain on Thursday as a heatwave that has enveloped southeastern Europe in recent days shifted west towards the Iberian peninsula.
Consumer Affairs Minister Alberto Garzón has reignited the debate about Spain's love of meat by asking Spaniards to consume less 'carne' to protect their personal health as well as the future of the planet.
The European Union's top court warned Spain on June 24th that it needs to do more to protect Doñana National Park, home to one of Europe's largest wetlands, which is threatened by intensive farming.
Once on the verge of extinction, the Iberian lynx population in Spain and Portugal has risen more than 10-fold over the past 18 years, the Spanish government said Friday.
Spain will spend €1.5 billion ($1.8 billion) from a European Union recovery fund to develop green hydrogen production over the next three years, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Monday.
Spain's parliament approved Thursday a clean energy bill aimed at achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 in line with EU targets, while also banning the sale of fossil fuel vehicles by 2040.
Environmental authorities in the Spanish region of Valencia want to limit hiking and ban rockclimbing and canyoning in popular retreats in Alicante, Valencia and Castellón provinces to preserve these natural habitats and their local species.
From July 1st, Spain's General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) will readjust the criteria for its environmental badge emission stickers of vehicles in the country. Here's what you need to know if you're a driver in Spain.
In the EU, 13 percent of deaths are linked to pollution, said a new report published on Tuesday by the European Environment Agency (EEA), which stressed the current pandemic put environmental health factors in the spotlight.
Madrid City Council has launched a tender for a 74km-long forest belt to be developed around the city’s perimeters, with hundreds of thousands of new trees that will be planted to help improve the Spanish capital’s poor air quality.
The Spanish government on Tuesday proposed new legislation on rubbish that seeks to dramatically reduce single-use plastic packaging, notably by taxing it.
We all want to believe it to be true: That while we are all confined in our homes, creatures are taking back environments too long encroached upon by mankind.
One in five Europeans suffers from noise pollution considered harmful to their health, the European Environment Agency (EEA) said in a report on Thursday, deploring the EU's failure to meet its own commitments.
