AN EARTHQUAKE in the province of Lleida was thought to have been caused by a meteorite – but geographical experts have refuted this. Emergency services took 15 calls from residents in and around the village of Alpicat...
HUNDREDS of residents in the northern regions of Aragón and Catalunya have been evacuated from their homes as torrential rain causes flash flooding and rivers to burst their banks. The worst of the damage is near the...
Over 250 firefighters, backed up by 100 fire engines, have been working all night trying to put out four forest fires in the Lleida Pyrenees that have already razed almost 1,000 hectares of vegetation. There are hopes...
A sudden drop in temperatures has brought the first snow of the season to the Pyrenees. Workers at ski resorts in the Valle de Arán, which is coated in a 10cm blanket of snow and where temperatures have plunged to...
Water levels in Spain's reservoirs fell by 1.3% last week and now stand at just 42.9% of total capacity (53,217 hectometres). Furthermore, there are 5,565 hectometres less than average levels for this time of the...
A small earthquake of 3,1 degrees on the Richter scale occurred in the South East of La Vall de Boi (Lleida) at 21.16 hours yesterday. It was felt in the towns of Sort, Rialp, Pont de Suert, Boi and Puebla de Segura....
Regional Catalan police, the , and experts of the Catalan Water Agency (ACA) have opened an investigation to determine whether fruit juice company are responsible for the caustic soda spillage detected last Sunday in...
