by Beth Holmes | May 15, 2023 | Climate Change, Environmental hazards
The April heat wave in Spain this year would not have been possible without human-caused climate change, a new study finds. In late April, a heat wave spiked across Spain and Portugal into Algeria and Morocco. Temperatures got as high as 105.8F (41C), in a time of...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 29, 2023 | Climate Change, Conservation, Environmental hazards
Spain is being warned not to expand irrigation near a valuable and threatened wetland, as the EU threatens to take measures. The Doñana wetlands are a UNESCO world heritage site, one of the key biospheres of Europe. They sit on the coast in the southwest of Spain,...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 9, 2021 | Conservation, Sustainability
Bottled water has much more of an impact than previously estimated, and it’s bad, according to new research. The trend of drinking bottled water over tap has continued to escalate in recent years. Whether it’s taste, lack of trust in municipal water, a...
