Palma's C. Unió may be reopened to traffic
An issue for the town hall relates to regulations for low emission zones.
Climate change protest in Palma, Mallorca
'Beachgoers' who staged a climate change protest in Palma last year.
Balearics tourism will be most affected in Spain because of rising summer temperatures
The European Commission has conducted a regional study of the impact of climate change on tourism.
Mallorca sea temperature 2.5 degrees higher than normal
Monday's average sea temperature was almost 25C.
Summers in Mallorca are now twenty days longer
"This winter lasted only a month to a month and a half."
Twelve per cent of Palma summer deaths attributed to the heat island effect
A solution lies with having greater density of trees.
Climate change in the Balearics accelerating 20% more rapidly than much of the world
"The climate crisis is mainly a health crisis", characterised, for instance, by a redistribution of tropical diseases.
Mallorca Citizens' Assembly proposes tourist and vehicle limits
A government-backed assembly to address challenges posed by climate change.
Climate change protest in Palma, Mallorca
Climate change protest in Palma.
Living with eco-anxiety in Mallorca
The chronic fear of an environmental cataclysm.
Tourist islands call for common European policy
The urgent fight against climate change, among other things.
“We’ve past the tipping point to stop climate change, we are going to have to learn to manage it and live with it...”
"Within the next ten years, may be less, the Balearics will become uncomfortably hot for tourists from northern Europe."
Mallorca strategy for 2030 - fewer flights, fewer visitors, fewer hire cars ...
More public transport and with dedicated HOV bus lanes; a cut in the number of private boats.
Mallorca should remove or relocate seafront buildings because of climate change
Buildings less than one hundred metres from the current shoreline should be assessed.
Saving Mallorca from a crisis "hitting us like never before"
'Mallorca Strategy 2030' defines the Mallorca of the future, addressing the challenges of overpopulation, climate change and economic and resource overexploitation.
Mediterranean warming more rapidly than anywhere else on the planet
Among other things, The Lancet project highlights an increase in the transmission of infectious diseases.
Mallorca mosquito alert issued for autumn
Risk that the tiger mosquito population will grow.
Comment
End of Mallorca's tourism season - time to protest
When EU tourism ministers gather in Palma, they can expect to be greeted with protests.
Andrew Ede19/09/2023 17:10