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A housing project from the Sostre Civic housing cooperative in Barcelona. The residents pay below-market rates for units that cannot be bought or sold for a 75-year term. Image courtesy of Alvaro Alvarez.

‘Degrowth’ gains a foothold in Barcelona and support internationally

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Mar 2025

‘Silent killing machines’: How water canals threaten wildlife across the globe

Aldem Bourscheit 20 Feb 2025
An ocelot walks tentatively into a pre-release enclosure.

Getting rewilding right with the reintroduction of small wildcats

Sean Mowbray 18 Feb 2025

Study finds population crash for critically endangered European eel in Spain’s Ebro Delta

Shanna Hanbury 10 Feb 2025

Spain adopts paid ‘climate leave’ policy following deadly floods

Shanna Hanbury 10 Dec 2024
Banner image of high river waters in Cardiff, Wales, by Sionk via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

India, U.K. deal with storms that are ‘symptom of our changing climate’

Kristine Sabillo 28 Nov 2024

At least 94 dead as worst storm in decades hits Spain’s Valencia region

Shanna Hanbury 30 Oct 2024

Incredibly rare Iberian lynx making a “dramatic recovery”

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Jul 2024
A mariscadora uses a clam rake to dredge for shellfish off Cambados in Galicia. Image by Naomi Mihara for Mongabay

In northern Spain, climate change is killing shellfish — and women’s livelihoods

Naomi Mihara, Natalie Donback 29 Jun 2024

Meet the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2024

Indonesia and Spain sign agreement to protect migrant fishing workers

Basten Gokkon 5 Feb 2024
Bottom trawler Ivan Nores

Spain sanctions fishing vessels for illegally ‘going dark’ near Argentine waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 11 Jan 2024
Regenerative agriculture methods, such as green cover crops, help Santiaga Sánchez’s farm better withstand persistent drought punctuated by sudden violent storms.

Battling desertification: Bringing soil back to life in semiarid Spain

Jaime Velázquez, Xaume Olleros 17 Oct 2023
Santiaga Sánchez seated atop a pile of compost she calls her “brown gold.”

Meet the farmers in southeastern Spain fighting desertification

Jaime Velázquez, Xaume Olleros 17 Oct 2023

Can Spain keep the rising sea from washing away a critical delta?

Nathan Siegel 5 Jul 2023
An Iberian lynx.

Vulture carrion potential boon and threat for endangered Iberian lynx: Studies

Sean Mowbray 4 Apr 2023
A shark with remoras.

Shark-fishing gear banned across much of Pacific in conservation ‘win’

Philip Jacobson 8 Dec 2022

As shark numbers plummet, nations seek ban on devastatingly effective gear

Philip Jacobson 26 Nov 2022
Mallorca, in Spain’s Balearic Islands, is a go-to destination for holidaymakers from Europe and further afield. Image by Kyle Taylor via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Seagrass joins other marine life in accumulating sunscreen compounds

Sean Mowbray 4 Apr 2022

Spanish farmers fight forest fires with agroforestry (and many sheep)

Monica Pelliccia 29 Jul 2021

Billions in fishing subsidies finance social, ecological harm, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 7 Jul 2021

Conservation actions see Iberian lynx claw back from brink of extinction

Johan Augustin 12 Mar 2021

This Mediterranean seagrass filters plastic waste — but it’s also under threat

Basten Gokkon 5 Feb 2021

Polly share a cracker: Study finds grey parrots are good Samaritans

Malavika Vyawahare 9 Jan 2020

Europe’s ‘ruthless’ animal attractions: Q & A with filmmaker Aaron Gekoski

Mongabay.com 17 Dec 2019

Hopes dim as COP25 delegates dicker over Article 6 and world burns: critics

Justin Catanoso 9 Dec 2019

COP25 may put climate at greater risk by failing to address forests

Justin Catanoso 2 Dec 2019

Government subsidies serving to prop up destructive high-seas fishing: study

Basten Gokkon 8 Jun 2018

Spanish enviros threatened by government and economically stressed citizens

Santiago Sáez Moreno 15 Apr 2016

Success! Biologists may have found a way to eliminate amphibian-killing fungus in the wild

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Nov 2015

Does conservation work? Using the IUCN Red List to evaluate groups’ performance

John-Rob Pool 9 Sep 2015

Trawling: destructive fishing method is turning seafloors to ‘deserts’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 May 2014

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