Spain’s €1.4 billion plan to help protect Doñana National Park from drying up
National and regional authorities in Spain signed an agreement on Monday to invest €1.4 billion in areas around the Doñana National Park in a bid to...
Climate Change
Winds from Storm Ciarán stoke a wildfire in Valencia, with 850 evacuated
A wildfire stoked by storm winds in the Valencia region has burned some 2,000 hectares of land and forced the evacuation of over 850 people from...
Heatwave shatters Spain’s temperature records for early October
The start of October in Spain this year has been the warmest since records began, the country’s meteorological agency AEMET said on Monday, with nearly...
Five dead, three missing as ‘storm Dana’ brings torrential rain across Spain
#UPDATED on 6 Sept 2023 at 9am The death toll from the heavy rains that lashed Spain on Sunday have increased to five as emergency...
Residents in Madrid told to stay at home as torrential rain hits parts of Spain
The mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, advised all residents to stay at home on Sunday, as the capital braced itself for torrential rain and...
Firefighters and military personnel battle ‘out of control’ wildfire in Tenerife
Around 250 firefighters and personnel from Spain’s special military emergency unit (UME) are battling a wildfire raging ‘out of control’ on the island of Tenerife...
Spain on wildfire alert as another heatwave begins, with forecast up to 47C
Although three wildfires that scorched more than 1,000 hectares in Spain over the weekend are now under control, the country remains on high alert for...
Catalonia declares drought emergency in 24 towns that will see water cuts
Catalonia declared a drought emergency in a total of 24 municipalities on Wednesday, which follows a severe lack of rain during the past 30 months....
A third heatwave hits Spain, as wildfire continues to burn in La Palma
Spain’s AEMET weather agency has said a third heatwave of the year ‘will affect a large part of the countries bordering the Mediterranean’ this week,...
Sánchez and Feijóo clash in unruly and chaotic TV election debate
Spain’s socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Alberto Núñez Feijóo, leader of the main opposition party, the right-wing People’s Party (PP), took part in a...
