Environment/Nature news & information for Madrid

MADRID'S Retiro Park and El Prado boulevard are now officially UNESCO heritage sites – the first ever for Spain's capital.

WE OFTEN talk about beaches on here. If much of northern Europe was asked to name a country they would head for on a short-haul flight on the very next warm day to be able to lie on a beach, Spain would probably be...

HYDROGEN-POWERED cars are cheaper to run and kinder to the planet, but have so far failed to catch on in Spain – as there has never been anywhere to recharge them.

ART DOESN'T just belong in galleries, and sculptures don't have to be made out of rock-hard material and created with a hammer and chisel, or even a potter's wheel. Anyone who's fond of gardening is...

SCIENTISTS from Madrid Autonomous University (UAM) have found micro-plastics in a protected area of the Antarctic for the first time ever.

AMBULANCE shift-leader Ester Armela, based in Madrid, has revealed why the hand you hold your umbrella in if you are caught out in a storm with forked lightning could save your life.

SPAIN'S National Research Council has responded to Madrid's regional president with facts and figures after she claimed that 'nobody has died from air pollution'.

NOW officially the longest in history, the United Nations Climate Change Summit should have ended on Friday – but is still under way today due to the impossibility of reaching an agreement on strategy that will really...

Teenage environmental activist, Greta Thunberg, arived in Madrid this morning after a 10-hour trip from Lisbon, and will lead this evening's protest calling for action on global warming.

SCHOOLGIRL climate change activist Greta Thunberg is on her way to Spain from the USA in a yacht belonging to millionaire YouTubers after putting out a Twitter appeal for transport.

A UNITED Nations' Climate Change Summit due to be held in Chile but cancelled as a result of mass protests across the nation will take place in Madrid – it's official.

A GYM which converts human movement into energy to power machines has opened in a Greater Madrid region town.