A river in Spain was littered with dead fish on Thursday, a day after a huge blaze engulfed a nearby industrial waste
disposal plant near Barcelona, local officials said.
"I am in love with this sea. I live for it and I live off it. If they took it away from me, I would die," says
Pedro Martinez-Banos, gazing out across the sparkling waters of Spain's Mar Menor.
Spain wanted to make a splash on the international scene by agreeing to host next month's COP25 climate summit at the last minute after Chile pulled out.
Spain's environment minister has promised that the government will help Greta Thunberg cross the Atlantic in time to attend the upcoming UN climate talks after a last minute change in venue left the 16-year-old stranded on the wrong side of the world.
Their comeback from the brink of extinction has been hailed as one of Europe’s greatest wildlife success stories, but that has been tainted by the news that at least four Iberian lynx have been killed this year through illegal hunting.
Daylight is only just breaking over Spain's Cantabrian Mountains and already a dozen enthusiasts are up and about in the hope of spotting a brown bear.
Hundreds of Spanish livestock farmers staged a protest Thursday in the Pyrenees town of Ainsa against the re-introduction of brown bears to the mountain region saying the predators are a menace to their flocks.
A man who joked that he was “recycling” while he filmed himself tipping an old fridge off a cliff to tumble down into the ravine below, won’t be laughing now.
"They work for me night and day," smiles Antonio Zamora, standing in his greenhouse. His minuscule employees are bugs that feed on the parasites threatening his peppers.
An invasive flatworm that has been accidentally imported from South America is posing a new threat to soil health and wildlife in one of Spain’s most fragile ecosystems.
Ann Jenkins, a Canadian living in La Herradura on Andalusia's Costa Tropical, is the woman behind Playa Patrol, a beach clean-up initiative. She speaks to The Local about her mission to clean up Spain’s Costas, one beach at a time.
Spain has great beaches, in fact Spain has the most blue-flagged beaches of any country in the world, awarded to 590 bathing spots across its vast coastline for reaching high standards of cleanliness.
In 2002, the Iberian lynx was identified as the world’s most endangered cat, with just 94 left in the wild and looked all set to become the first species of cat to die out since the sabre-toothed tiger 10,000 years ago.
The first brown bear sighting in Portugal in more than a century was confirmed by wildlife experts on Thursday, after reports of an animal in the northeast of the country.
Spain is home to some of the most varied wildlife in Europe. From the brown bears of the Pyrenees to the cave-dwelling bearded vulture, Spain’s range of topographies allows for a vast assortment of indigenous animals.
Scientists have long known that some beaked whales beach themselves and die in agony after exposure to naval sonar, and now they know why: the giant sea mammals suffer decompression sickness, just like scuba divers.
With wing-shaped shells lined with iridescent mother-of-pearl and producing the fibres of rare and delicate sea silk, the noble pen shell clam is one of the most emblematic species in the Mediterranean and a bellwether for marine environmental health.
