FORMER UN supremo Kofi Annan is coming to Marbella to talk about wine. The Nobel Prize winner will be a guest speaker at the Third World Conference on Climate Change and Wine, which is being held in Marbella for the first time. The former secretary general for the United Nations is the key note speaker [...]

BRITISH economist Nicholas Stern has been awarded a top environment accolade by Spanish Bank BBVA. The academic, behind the influential Stern Review, was handed the Frontiers of Knowledge Award on Climate Change. At the ceremony in London he revealed he underestimated the economic impact of global warming, perhaps by up to four times. “We estimated [...]

SPANISH environmental chiefs have confirmed that the country will break its EU-enforced traffic pollution limits.

THE Sahara desert will envelop Spain and most of southern France and Italy. Venice, New Orleans and Holland will be underwater, while tigers and lions will have been eaten – by the ten per cent of mankind that is still left! This is what scientists are predicting, in just four decades if the world warms [...]

THE Mediterranean Sea has risen by eight centimetres since 1943 while its temperature is increasing by 0.028 degrees Celsius per year. Those are the findings of the first Climate Change study to centre on Spain,  which compiles data spanning a 60-year period. Levels of salinity in the Mediterranean have also increased, according to the Spanish [...]