THE Mediterranean diet, long renowned for its health benefits, could actually add three years to your life. According to researchers the diet – high in fruits, vegetables, fish and wholegrain cereals – provides a rich source of anti-oxidants that prevent cancer, heart disease and can even slow the ageing process. Indeed scientists from Sweden’s University [...]

SPAIN and Morocco have signed an unprecedented cross-border agreement protecting a biosphere reserve. The agreement has been formed in a bid to encourage sustainable development in the Mediterranean Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve established by UNESCO in 2006. The 907,185 hectare area which stretches into the Malaga and Cadiz provinces incorporates the natural parks of the Sierra [...]

BEAUTIFUL people everywhere have always reached for this magic potion to help keep their skin supple and fight off wrinkles. But now it has been found that olive oil is good for your bones too. According to medics at the University Hospital Reina Sofia in Cordoba, the oil actually helps your body to form cells [...]

AN in-depth look at the red tuna industry by Andrew Pearce. It has descended into a vicious, full-blown battle on the Seven Seas. Boats have been sunk and men have been maimed in the fervent struggles out in the deep-blue Mediterranean Sea. Yet the prize is not a bounty of gold, nor of territory, but [...]

A JUDGE confirmed that the 50-room hotel, dubbed the ‘second Algarrobico’ by green groups can be developed on protected salt flats, the Campillo de Gata.

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 [...]