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.
Unlimited growth in Balearics energy consumption being questioned
The plan for energy transition and climate change doesn't refer to a decrease in energy consumption.
Wildfires in Europe burn second-biggest area on record
This year's burned area is more than double the size of Luxembourg.
Car-hire firms in agreement with limits
The Balearic government's climate change plan contemplates limits on the number of vehicles that can enter each island.
Fresh calls to cap tourism numbers in Mallorca
Concerns over the receding coastline and erosion.
Mallorca in danger of climate change.
Mallorca in danger of climate change.
Leading Mallorcan biologist and environmentalist Xavier Pastor.
Leading Mallorcan biologist and environmentalist Xavier Pastor.
Man walking by the sea
The sea level could rise by up to a metre by 2100.
Coastal areas threatened by inundation from rising sea levels by 2100
"If we don't take this seriously, some houses and promenades in coastal areas will disappear."
- Spain wants Britons to show they have 113.40 euros, £97, per day for their holidays
- Over two hours for Britons to get through Palma airport queues
- Spanish pensioners stuck at Palma Airport for fourteen hours
- Palma Airport passport control "collapse" put down to unscheduled flights
- Watch those prices in Mallorca