Environment/Nature news & information for Andalucia

ANDALUCÍA has just acquired another National Park – a status that could dramatically increase tourism income and job creation, vital in the holiday industry's post-pandemic recovery.

SOMETIMES it really feels as though Spain is the part of the world where the Arctic and the tropics collide. Humid summers with temperatures pushing 40ºC, cacti and yucca growing wild, a country which harvests its own...

THERE'S no such thing as too many flowers – at least, Estepona doesn't think so, although it has decided to stop at around 400,000 just in case.

CREATING a circular economy through upcycling and recycling is becoming – and not before time – a trend in just about every industry and household; plastic waste fished from the sea and turned into clothing and home...

YOU would expect a beach to be pale gold, or white, with blue or turquoise waters – or perhaps black with navy-blue waters if it's a volcanic zone like some of the Canary Islands' shores – but a...

A BEER factory in Andalucía has become the first in Spain, and the biggest in Europe, to become completely emissions-free.

YOU'VE read about Spain's record rainfall, wind speed, wave height, coldest and hottest temperatures (if you haven't, check out the fascinating set of numbers here – and keep a note of them as conversation...

ESTEPONA'S brand-new public park is now open in the west end of the Costa del Sol town's outskirts, complete with picnic tables, footpaths, and a botanical garden.

FIGHTING plastic pollution off Costa del Sol shores, over 80 volunteers rolled their sleeves up and gave Fuengirola beach a good clean on Saturday.

'QUEEN Mum' HRH Sofía has been helping clear bags of rubbish off a beach in Málaga, filling sacks with plastic and other waste as part of a project led by SEO/BirdLife and one of Spain's main recycling...

KING Felipe and Queen Letizia spent Valentine's Day at the stunningly-beautiful Doñana National Park to attend an event to finish off its 50th anniversary year.

RECYCLED building rubble has been used to restore a Costa del Sol beach that vanished through coastal erosion in the 1970s.