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Spain’s ‘Black Flag’ awards for beach pollution includes one for flood disaster waste in Valencia

THE Ecologistas en Accion group have handed out their ‘Black Flags’ for 2025 to coastal areas of Spain which they say have environmental problems. They

17 Jun, 2025 @ 16:53

Environment·Lead·Valencia

Campaign group to take Cala Mosca’s ‘urban atrocity’ to court in Orihuela (Alicante)

A CAMPAIGN group has confirmed it will take the ‘abhorrent’ development of 2,200 homes in scenic Cala Mosca to court. Salvemos Cala Mosca refuses to

12 Jul, 2023 @ 17:15

Alicante·Environment·Lead·Valencian Community

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Spain’s Balearic Islands slammed for continuous destruction and pollution of its coastline

THE Balearic Islands have been flagged up as a key black spot for the ‘chronic cancer’ of environmental destruction. Ecologistas en Accion has slammed the

2 Jul, 2023 @ 19:30

Balearic Islands·Environment·Mallorca·Other News

48 black flags handed to environmentally ‘destroyed’ beaches and coastal areas across Spain

ECOLOGISTS in Action has handed their unwanted black flags to 48 beaches across the Spanish coast. The environmental group, which exposes a number of beaches

27 Jun, 2023 @ 19:30

Alicante·Almeria·Andalucia·Balearic Islands·Cadiz·Castellon·Environment·Granada·Huelva·Lead·Malaga·Mallorca·Valencia·Valencian Community

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Locals in over 10 Castilla y Leon municipalities are drinking non-potable water

Residents of Valladolid (Castilla y Leon) and 10 towns within its province are consuming non-drinkable water. The water in these municipalities has nitrate levels over

8 Jun, 2023 @ 16:30

Environment·Health·Lead·Other News

Costa Blanca slammed for the continuous destruction and pollution of its coasts

THE Costa Blanca has been singled out as a key black spot for the ‘chronic cancer’ of environmental destruction. Ecologistas en Accion has slammed the

4 Jun, 2023 @ 14:15

Alicante·Castellon·Costa Blanca·Environment·Murcia·Valencia·Valencian Community

Spain lodges formal protest as US nuclear sub chooses stop off in Gibraltar over Rota

SPAIN lodged a formal complaint on Wednesday after it emerged a US naval nuclear submarine would be stopping off in Gibraltar rather than at the

13 Apr, 2022 @ 17:15

Gibraltar·Lead·National News

Campaigners call for Sierra Bermeja to be awarded national park status in wake of devastating wildfire

FOLLOWING the recent wildfire that ravaged nearly 10,000 hectares of the Sierra Bermeja mountains and the Genal Valley, there have been even louder calls for

20 Sep, 2021 @ 15:30

Environment·Lead·Malaga

GOING OFF: Spanish activists blast British government for docking nuclear submarine in Gibraltar and ‘putting Andalucia at risk of disaster’

SPANISH activists have demanded the UK government stop docking nuclear submarines in Gibraltar. Ecologistas en Accion blasted the British Navy following the arrival of the

3 Dec, 2018 @ 11:31

Lead·Politics

Blowing in the wind: Does pollution on Gibraltar’s border with Spain cause increased cancer rates?

Black clouds of pollution billow daily from the industrial chimneys of the Campo de Gibraltar. Is it all merely hot air or a smoking gun

24 Nov, 2018 @ 10:00

Cadiz·Crime & Law·Environment·Gibraltar·Health·Huelva·Lead·Nature·Politics·Sevilla

Volunteers remove more than 22,000 cigarette butts from Costa del Sol beach in Spain

DEDICATED volunteers have picked up an amazing 22,500 cigarettes from a Costa del Sol beach. The amazing haul was removed from La Linea’s shoreline during

20 Sep, 2018 @ 15:11

Cadiz·Environment·Lead·Malaga

Green campaigner who had cocaine planted in car adamant he knows who is behind the stitch-up

Ecologistas en Accion to stage rally in support of Juan Clavero

28 Sep, 2017 @ 11:35

Cadiz·Lead

Runners blamed for lasting damage to Spain’s protected mountain zones

Some 10 environmental groups have sent an official letter to Spain’s minister of agriculture

12 Feb, 2017 @ 11:30

Environment·Lead·Nature·Sport

A gruesome legacy: The history of shooting in Spain

Graphic content warning: Following the shocking massacre of a landowner's dogs by alleged hunters upset over a hunting ban, we trace the Spanish roots of

4 Feb, 2017 @ 12:30

Granada·La Cultura·Lead

New national park bid for Andalucian Sierra Bermeja and de las Nieves mountains

Maribel Marin revealed that the Junta de Andalucia is currently considering a new proposal to give Estepona's impressive Sierra Bermeja the status in conjunction with

18 Nov, 2016 @ 12:35

Environment·Malaga·Nature