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Global Briefing: Spain advances plans for short haul flight ban
2024-03-08 in Business GreenSpain to follow France in banning flights where rail offers viable alternative, Italy confirms coal phase out date, and Azerbaijan joins global methane pledge
Tagged under: Coal | Legislation | Methane | Italy | Spain | Aviation | Trains | France
Spanish Power Is Almost Free with Renewables Set for Record - Bloomberg
2024-02-29 in BloombergElectricity prices in Spain slumped to almost nothing as the nation’s wind and solar parks are churning out more power than ever.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Spain | Wind Power
Catalonia's farmers demand more help over drought
2024-02-28 in The BBCAs Spain continues to be blighted by a lack of rain, farmers want more government assistance.
What will Spain look like when it runs out of water? Barcelona is giving us a glimpse | María Ramírez
2024-02-15 in The GuardianAngry farmers, worried tourism workers and unprepared politicians – Catalonia is on the frontline of a drought-stricken future, says Spanish journalist María Ramírez
Tagged under: Spain | Drought | Farming
Barcelona imposes severe water restrictions during worst drought ever
2024-02-01 (or before) in EuronewsCitizens could be fined for washing cars or watering gardens.
Tagged under: Spain | Drought | Cars
Drought reveals sunken church in Spanish reservoir
2024-01-17 (or before) in Euronews'Drought tourists’ are visiting to see the 11th-century church which was submerged 60 years ago.
'This Is Terrible': Eco Emergency in Spain as Plastic Pellets Invade Coast
2024-01-10 in Common DreamsThe countless beads of plastic, which experts fear are toxic and harmful to marine life and people, are believed to have spilled from a cargo ship.
Tagged under: Marine Life | Pollution | Plastic | Spain
Spanish minister hails deal to save Andalucía wetlands as a model for green transition
2023-12-27 in The Guardian€1.4bn deal to protect Doñana national park will diversify local economy and stop farmers using aquifers to irrigate fruit crops
Tagged under: Spain | Wetlands
Torrential rain in Spain causes major flooding - BBC News
2023-09-03 (or before) in The BBCA football match between Atletico Madrid and Sevilla was called off as a red alert was issued in the capital.
Tagged under: Spain
Barcelona gives hats to homeless people as heatwave sweeps southern Europe
2023-08-24 in The GuardianGreek firefighters continue to battle wildfires and 17 areas of southern France remain on red alert
Tagged under: Spain | Wildfires | Greece
‘Like a blowtorch’: Mediterranean on fire as blazes spread across nine countries
2023-07-26 in The Guardian‘There is no magical defence mechanism,’ says Greek prime minister as fires burn in northern Africa and southern Europe
Tagged under: Spain | Africa | Heatwaves | Greece
Olive oil industry in crisis as Europe’s heatwave threatens another harvest
2023-07-17 in The GuardianWorld’s biggest olive producer, Spain, on course for second bad harvest in a row, raising fears of gaps on shelves and even higher prices
Southern Europe braces for second heat storm in a week
2023-07-16 in The GuardianNew system pushing into region from north Africa could lead to temperatures above record 48.8C
Tagged under: Spain | Africa | Greece
Spanish olive growers feel pain from early drought – DW – 05/09/2023
2023-07-15 (or before) in Deutsche WelleEuropean heatwave - latest updates as red alerts and record temperatures continue | The Independent
2023-07-13 (or before) in The IndependentEurope heatwave 2023
Tagged under: Spain | Wildfires
Hail batters Spain creating icy urban scenes
2023-07-08 (or before) in The BBCStorms in the country are battering areas in the north and south, with hail days after a heatwave.
Tagged under: Spain
Weekly Climate News Headlines
2023-07-03 (or before) in YouTubeWeekly climate news headlines from around the world. #bangladesh #India #USA #Canada #wildfires #mexico #pakistan #heatwaves #Spain #Romania #Chile
Tagged under: Spain | Wildfires | Flooding | Canada | India | Chile | Mexico | Heatwaves
Spain on track to pass 50 pct renewable energy generation in 2023
2023-06-08 in Renew Economy | News and analysis for the clean energy economySpain expected to surpass 50% average renewables mark on its grid this year, beating neighbouring EU powerhouses to the milestone.
Tagged under: Spain | Renewable Energy | Electricity Grid
'Murderers' and 'criminals': Meteorologists face unprecedented harassment from conspiracy theorists | CNN
2023-05-27 by in CNN InternationalNational weather services, meteorologists and climate communicators in countries from the US to Australia say they’re experiencing an increase in threats and abuse, often around accusations they are overstating, lying about or even controlling the weather.
Tagged under: Spain | Climate Change | Health | Finance
Spanish regions demand EU support to tackle drought crisis - EFE Noticias
2023-05-25 in efe.comBrussels, May 25 (EFE).- Spanish regional authorities on Thursday called for a “European response” to the prolonged drought that is severely affecting the country’s agricultural sector. Rainfall has dropped by 26% between October 2022 and early May 2023, according to the State Meteorological Agen
'Without water, we are nothing!': Spain's crippling drought reignites tensions over Tagus river
2023-05-13 (or before) in InklAn early scorching heatwave across Spain has worsened the impact of the country's long-term drought, causing unprecedented damage to the country's crops. As farmers grow desperate for irrigation, the government's plan to limit the rerouting of water from the nation's longest river – the Tagus – for agricultural purposes lies…
Tagged under: Spain | Drought | Farming | Rivers
Spain to ban some outdoor working during extreme heat conditions | Reuters
2023-05-11 (or before) in ReutersSpain will ban some outdoor working during extreme heat conditions, Labour Minister Yolanda Diaz said on Wednesday, as the country faces high temperatures more frequently as a result of climate change.
Tagged under: Spain | Climate Change
Spain records hottest and driest April on record
2023-05-08 in Associated Press NewsDrought-stricken Spain says last month was the hottest and driest April since records began in 1961. The State Meteorological Agency says the average daily temperature was 14.9 degrees Celsius (58.8 Fahrenheit) — that is 3 degrees Celsius above the average. AEMET said average maximum temperatures during the month were up by 4.7 C. Rainfall was a fifth of what would normally be expected in the month, making it the driest April on record in Spain. Last year was Spain’s hottest since record-keeping started in 1961, and also the country’s sixth driest. Three years of scant rainfall and high temperatures put the cou...
Tagged under: Spain | Drought | Farming
Extreme April heat in Spain, Portugal, Morocco & Algeria almost impossible without climate change – World Weather Attribution
2023-05-07 (or before) in World Weather AttributionTagged under: Spain | Climate Change
April Mediterranean heatwave ‘almost impossible’ without climate crisis
2023-05-05 in The GuardianExtreme event would have been expected once in 40,000 years before global heating, scientists estimate
Tagged under: Spain
Many Europeans want climate action – but less so if it changes their lifestyle, shows poll
2023-05-02 in The GuardianExclusive: YouGov survey in seven countries tested backing for government and individual action on crisis
Tagged under: Spain | Climate Change | France
Catalonia’s farmers face threat of drought … and a plague of hungry rabbits
2023-04-24 in The GuardianWith water reserves running low, Spanish farmers are also struggling to protect crops from thousands of rabbits starved of fresh grass
Tagged under: Spain | Drought | Farming
Drought will cause crop failures in Spain, farmers warn
2023-04-13 in Associated Press NewsThe main Spanish farmers' association says drought now affects 60% of the Spanish countryside and is causing “irreversible losses” to more than 3.5 million hectares of crops. the Coordinator of Farmers' and Ranchers' Organizations said in a report issued on Thursday that wheat and barley are expected to fail or be badly affected in major growing regions. Olives and nuts also are suffering due to Spain’s long-term drought, which is affecting farmers' ability to irrigate corn, sunflowers, rice and cotton, too. Reservoirs in Andalusia, Spain’s most important food-exporting region, have water levels at 30% of...
Tagged under: Spain | Drought | Farming | Climate Change
Climate change: Catalonia in grip of worst drought in decades - BBC News
2023-04-04 (or before) in The BBCWater levels at a reservoir in the northern Spanish region have fallen below 10% of its capacity.
Tagged under: Spain | Drought | Climate Change
Early wildfire in Spain’s Valencia region forces 1,500 villagers to evacuate
2023-03-25 in The GuardianEmergency services say they have contained spread of blaze that has scorched more than 4,000 hectares
Tagged under: Spain | Wildfires
World's first octopus farm proposals alarm scientists - BBC News
2023-03-16 (or before) in The BBCMethods used on the Spanish farm would be "cruel" to such intelligent animals say experts, as details emerge.
Tagged under: Spain
‘Very precarious’: Europe faces growing water crisis as winter drought worsens
2023-03-04 in The GuardianMultiple governments warn of critical water shortages as heatwaves and lack of rain leave river systems depleted
Tagged under: Spain | Heatwaves | Drought | France | Rivers
France in new row with Germany and Spain over nuclear-derived hydrogen
2023-02-10 (or before) in EURACTIVA new row has erupted between France, Germany and Spain over nuclear energy, with Paris furious about a lack of support from Berlin and Madrid for its efforts to have nuclear-derived hydrogen labelled as 'green' in EU legislation, sources said.
Tagged under: Spain | Hydrogen | Nuclear Power | Germany | France | Legislation
Brussels recommends EU-wide exit from controversial energy treaty
2023-02-08 (or before) in EuronewsFrance, Germany, Spain, the Netherlands and Poland are among those who had advocated an exit from the contentious agreement.
Tagged under: Spain | Germany | France
‘Extreme event’: warm January weather breaks records across Europe
2023-01-02 in The GuardianAt least eight countries experience record high temperatures of ‘almost unheard of’ heat, say meteorologists
Tagged under: Spain | Extreme Weather | France
Spain's olive oil producers devastated by worst ever drought - BBC News
2022-08-29 (or before) in The BBCSpain's olive oil industry is in danger after being hit by chronic water shortages.
Europe’s Parched Earth Hits Corn as Climate Crisis Resounds
2022-08-07 (or before) in BloombergSearing temperatures are shriveling corn crops across Europe, in the latest sign of a deepening crisis that spans everything from Rhine River transport to Spanish olive growers.
Tagged under: Spain | Farming | France | Rivers
'Zoe' Becomes the World’s First Named Heat Wave
2022-08-03 (or before) by in Smithsonian MagazineSeville, Spain has implemented a new heat wave naming system to raise awareness of these “silent killers”
Tagged under: Spain | Climate Change
Drought threatens Spain's 'green gold' harvest
2022-07-27 in France 24In the scorching heat, Felipe Elvira inspects the branches of his olive trees, planted as far as the eye can see on a dusty hillside in southern Spain.
Tagged under: Spain | Drought | Trees
Spanish man filmed escaping wildfire treated for serious burns
2022-07-19 in The GuardianMan in 50s emerges from blaze with clothes burned to rags and flames flickering around him
Tagged under: Spain | Extreme Weather | Wildfires
Heatwave: More evacuations as Mediterranean wildfires spread - BBC News
2022-07-17 (or before) in The BBCWildfires force France to evacuate some 16,000 people, as Spain, Croatia and Greece are also hit.
Tagged under: Spain | Wildfires | Heatwaves | France | Greece
Spain and Portugal suffering driest climate for 1,200 years, research shows
2022-07-04 in The GuardianEffects of human-caused global heating are blocking vital winter rains, with severe implications for farming and tourism
Tagged under: Spain | Farming | Extreme Weather | Drought
Illegal strawberry farms threaten future of Spanish wetlands
2022-02-08 in The GuardianOpponents say proposed amnesty for illegal water tapping in Doñana national park threatens disaster for one of Europe’s green lungs
Tagged under: Spain | Farming | Wetlands
This is what a year of climate disasters looked like
2021-12-19 (or before) in YouTubeFrom -25C temperatures in Spain to a record-equalling 54.4C in Death Valley, the extremes of our climate are becoming more acute. (Subscribe: https://bit.ly/...
Tagged under: Spain | Extreme Weather | Texas | California | Louisiana | Greece
MEDIA COVERAGE OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION IN THE SPANISH PRESS
2021-12-18 (or before) in Academia.edu - Share researchThis article analyzes how the Spanish press covers the mitigation of climate change. We have used the search engine MyNews to study in El País and El Mundo, the newspapers with the largest circulation in Spain during the years 2016 and 2017, the news
Tagged under: Spain | Climate Change | Climate Change Mitigation
‘Toilet of Europe’: Spain’s pig farms blamed for mass fish die-offs
2021-10-13 in The GuardianExclusive: pork industry’s role in pollution of one of Europe’s largest saltwater lagoons may be greater than publicly acknowledged, investigation reveals
Tagged under: Spain | Farming | Fish | Wildlife
Spain bans fertilisers near saltwater lagoon after dead fish wash up
2021-08-26 in The GuardianOfficials close eight beaches as residents complain of cloudy, green water that emits a foul smell
UK solar company secures funding to build two major solar plants in Spain - Business Leader News
2020-01-22 in Business News - Business LeaderUK-based solar energy company, Solarcentury, has secured new financing to build two of the largest solar plants in Spain demonstrating the UK’s leadership on climate change. UK Export Finance (UKEF), the […]
Tagged under: Spain | Solar Energy | Climate Change | Finance
Barcelona to open southern Europe's biggest low-emissions zone
2019-12-31 in The GuardianCity bans most polluting vehicles from area 20 times the size of Madrid’s zone
Tagged under: Spain | Greenhouse Gases
'Hell is coming': week-long heatwave begins across Europe
2019-06-24 in The GuardianTemperatures could hit 40C from Spain to Switzerland, with authorities urging children and older people to stay indoors
Tagged under: Spain | Extreme Weather | Heatwaves | Women and Children | France | Children
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