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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Hell Nay! We Won't Pay! Protests erupt worldwide over fuel prices		11 Jun 2008	News
Posted at 12:39 PM on 11 Jun 2008 Skyrocketing fuel prices show no sign of flagging, and no one's happy about it (except the occasional holier-than-thou environmentalist). Truck drivers and transportation operators have threatened to strike, gone on strike, or are still striking in Britain, France, Hong Kong, India, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, South Korea, Spain, and Thailand. In some places truckers have quit the ...
Topics: business, energy, gas prices, insanity, news, Spain (all these topics)

It actually doesn't fall on the plain ... or anywhere else Spain experiencing severe drought due to climate change	Joseph Romm	03 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Warming-driven desertification is spreading. Australia has gotten the most attention, but Spain is also turning into a desert. As Time reported: Spain is in the grip of its worst drought in a century as a result of climate change -- this year's total rainfall, for example, has been 40 percent lower than average for the equivalent period, and the country's reservoirs are, on average, only 30 percent full. The reservoirs serving Barcelona are only 20 percent full, and ...
Topics: climate, climate change impacts, desertification, severe weather, Spain, water crisis (all these topics)

Savor the irony 'Heart-healthy' pork from pigs with bad hearts	Tom Philpott	26 Mar 2008	Gristmill
I live for this sort of stuff: Guys in white lab coats got to tinkering with pig DNA, hoping to conjure up pork rich in 'heart-healthy' omega-3 fatty acids. Here's what they did: A team from the University of Pittsburgh a first transferred the roundworm gene--fat-1--to pig foetal cells. After that, a team from the University of Missouri cloned those cells and transferred them into 14 pig mothers. Great teamwork, guys. Success! 12 pigs were born. Six of them te ...
Topics: agriculture, food, health, insanity, Spain (all these topics)

Dolphins in danger Viral epidemic hits Mediterranean	Andrew Sharpless	30 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Striped dolphins in the Spanish Mediterranean are under attack from a virus similar to measles that could kill roughly 75,000 of the creatures before the disease loses steam. Authorities confirmed the disease, Morbillivirus, was also responsible for a plague that killed hundreds of thousands of dolphins in the early 1990s and also recently affected the Canary Island right whale population. This is definitely not the year for dolphins -- perhaps you remember t ...
Topics: oceans, Spain, wildlife (all these topics)

The solar power you don't hear about Solar thermal power deserves more attention, due to its lower cost and relative ease of storage	Joseph Romm	30 Aug 2007	Gristmill
Solar thermal power is back! Solar thermal gets less attention than its sexier cousin -- high-tech photovoltaics -- but has two big advantages. First, it is much cheaper than PV. Second, it captures energy in a form that is much easier to store -- heat -- typically with mirrored surfaces that concentrate sunlight onto a receiver that heats a liquid (which is then used to make steam to drive a turbine). Back in the 1980s, Luz International was the sole commercia ...
Topics: California, energy, renewable energy, solar thermal power, solar voltaic power, Spain (all these topics)

Madrid, May I? Spanish activists up in arms over unchecked urbanization		07 May 2007	Daily Grist
Madrid, May I? Spanish activists up in arms over unchecked urbanization This weekend, thousands of protesters took to the streets of Spain to voice their fury over ... rampant urbanization. Yes, it's true, residents of la piel de toro have had it with the bull. A building boom that started in the 1960s is overrunning rural areas and coastal cities, say observers, and corrupt politicians are only too eager ...
Topics: news, placemaking, Spain, sprawl, urban planning (all these topics)

The sun in Spain falls mainly on the concentrated-solar plant in Seville Man, that's the worst headline ever	David Roberts	04 May 2007	Gristmill
Here's a short but fascinating BBC story about a ginormous (11MW, with plans for expansion) concentrated-solar power plant in Seville, Spain -- the first commercial concentrated-solar plant in Europe. Hundreds of mirrors reflect sunlight at a single point at the top of a tower, where the heat boils water for stream that drives a generator. I'd only quibble with one thing: Is it true that this power is three times more expensive than power from conventional sources ...
Topics: energy, renewable energy, solar voltaic power, Spain (all these topics)

The Bane in Spain Falls Mainly on the, Um, Construction Spanish coast being ravaged by development		25 Oct 2006	Daily Grist
The Bane in Spain Falls Mainly on the, Um, Construction Spanish coast being ravaged by development The Spanish coast is being ravaged by a decade-long building boom, and there seems to be no end in sight. About 3 million houses have been started or built in the country in the past four years, with as many as half of them along its famed 3,100-mile coastline. The development boom is ruining ecosystems and bulldozing individuals' ri ...
Topics: news, placemaking, Spain (all these topics)

April Showers Bring April Flowers Spring is springing earlier in Europe, study finds		28 Aug 2006	Daily Grist
April Showers Bring April Flowers Spring is springing earlier in Europe, study finds Across Europe, spring is arriving an average of six to eight days earlier than it did 30 years ago, according to new research published in the journal Global Change Biology. Scientists studied 125,000 sets of observations of 542 plant and 19 animal species in 21 European countries, and found that nearly 80 percent of all le ...
Topics: climate, European Union, news, Spain, wildlife (all these topics)

Plight My Fire Spain reprimands public for careless behavior leading to forest fires		19 Sep 2005	Daily Grist
Plight My Fire Spain reprimands public for careless behavior leading to forest fires Spain has endured about 23,000 forest fires this year, up more than 25 percent from the same time last year. The blazes have destroyed more than 370,000 acres of land and killed 17 citizens -- and more than 90 percent of them have been started by people. The government has long avoided assigning blame to the public, perhaps fearing political fallou ...
Topics: news, Spain, wilderness (all these topics)

Sol Train Spain makes solar panels on new homes mandatory		10 Nov 2004	Daily Grist
Sol Train Spain makes solar panels on new homes mandatory Hoping to catch up to solar powerhouse Germany, sunny Spain has announced that as of next year, solar panels will become mandatory on new and renovated buildings. The government is shooting for a tenfold increase in the total square footage of solar panels by 2010. Domestic solar usage is low in Spain, though the country is a le ...
Topics: energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, news, solar voltaic power, Spain (all these topics)

Wave Hello! Wave Power Poised to Go Commercial Off Coast of Spain		02 Mar 2004	Daily Grist
Wave Hello! Wave Power Poised to Go Commercial Off Coast of Spain Ocean Power Technologies, a leader in the fledgling wave-power industry, is set to launch a pilot project off the north shore of Spain. Ten power-generating buoys will be placed in the Bay of Biscay, where they will float just below the surface and transform wave energy into mechanical force, which drives a generator that transmits power to shore via underground cables ...
Topics: Spain, water pollution (all these topics)

Shape Up or Ship Out Texas Ship-Inspection Company Implicated in Prestige Tanker Disaster		12 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Shape Up or Ship Out Texas Ship-Inspection Company Implicated in Prestige Tanker Disaster Negligence on the part of the Texas-based American Bureau of Shipping -- a company that conducts safety inspections of ships -- could be to blame for the notorious Prestige tanker disaster, which spilled millions of gallons of oil off the coas ...
Topics: energy, environmental justice, European Union, marine life, oceans, placemaking, politics, Spain, Texas, United States (all these topics)

Quantum Leak Prestige Disaster Likely Worse Than Exxon Valdez Spill, Report Says		18 Aug 2003	Daily Grist
Quantum Leak Prestige Disaster Likely Worse Than Exxon Valdez Spill, Report Says The leak from the oil tanker Prestige off the coast of Spain last year probably caused more environmental damage than the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, according to a new report by a private Spanish economic institute. Some 78,000 metric tons of fuel have been cleansed from beaches since the November sinking, and the Prestige continues ...
Topics: business, oceans, Spain, water pollution (all these topics)

Gushing Praise Pedro Arrojo-Agudo has started a new water culture in the Old World	Michelle Nijhuis	17 Apr 2003	Main Dish
Economics professor Pedro Arrojo-Agudo, who teaches at the University of Zaragoza in Spain, is using his academic expertise to battle a monster: the National Hydrological Plan, a $25 billion project that would build 120 dams on the Ebro River. The dams would submerge entire towns along Spain's second-longest river, displace tens of thousands of rice and fish farmers, and poison the ...
Topics: dams, interview, Spain (all these topics)

Dam Shamer		17 Apr 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: dams, energy, European Union, food and agriculture, rivers and watersheds, Spain, wetlands (all these topics)

Low Prestige		07 Apr 2003	Daily Grist
Low Prestige More than four months after the Prestige oil tanker sank off the coast of Spain, a new plan is underway for permanently cleaning up what proved to be the worst environmental disaster in the nation's history. About half of the ship's load of 77,000 tons of fuel oil has already leaked out and devastated the local environment; now a Spanish company will attempt to extract and cap ...
Topics: France, placemaking, pollution and waste, Spain, water pollution (all these topics)

Everybody's Gone, Surfing		25 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Everybody's Gone, Surfing Summer is on its way to Biarritz, France, the surfing capital of Europe -- but despite the surf and sun, no one is yet riding the waves. That's because surfing is banned in Biarritz and along some 160 miles of coastline in southwestern France, due to lingering environmental problems from the oil spill of the tanker Prestige, which sank last November off the coast of Spain. Some 10,000 metric tons o ...
Topics: France, renewable energy, Spain (all these topics)

Nobody Expected This Spanish Inquisition		24 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Nobody Expected This Spanish Inquisition Hundreds of thousands of Spanish citizens hit the streets of Madrid on Sunday to protest the national government's poor handling of the Prestige oil tanker spill, which has been labeled the worst environmental disaster in the country's history. Hundreds of chartered buses brought in protesters from Ga ...
Topics: energy, European Union, Greenpeace, international government agencies, marine life, oceans, placemaking, Spain (all these topics)

Oil and Water Don't Mix		14 Jan 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: commercial and industry organizations, energy, European Union, marine life, oceans, placemaking, pollution and waste, Spain, toxics (all these topics)

Spain and Suffering		19 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
Spain and Suffering An oil tanker carrying twice as much oil as was lost by the Exxon Valdez in 1989 split in two today and sank in the Atlantic Ocean, threatening to cause an environmental disaster on the Spanish coast 133 miles away. The tanker "Prestige" first ran into trouble almost a week ago when its hull cracked in a storm; even before today's development, oil had been pouring from the boat, landing as ...
Topics: energy, marine life, oceans, Spain (all these topics)

The Rain in Spain Caused an Awful Lot of Pain		18 Nov 2002	Daily Grist
The Rain in Spain Caused an Awful Lot of Pain Thousands of tons of oil have begun to wash up on seaports and the beaches of Galicia, Spain, after the hull of a rusty oil tanker at sea cracked last week during a storm. The country has suspended fishing on parts of its northwestern coast and workers are trying desperately to limit any further damage from the accident. Dozens of tons of oil remain on ...
Topics: energy, marine life, oceans, Spain, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Elephants: Never Forget		26 Feb 2002	Daily Grist
Elephants: Never Forget A shocking 80 percent of wild elephants in Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam fell victim to the ivory trade between 1988 and 2000, according to a report issued yesterday by Save the Elephants. The report blamed French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese, and Chinese tourists for driving ...
Topics: Cambodia, China, France, Germany, Indonesia, international government agencies, Italy, Japan, Laos, Nepal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Vietnam, wildlife (all these topics)

Getting the Munchies		31 Jul 2001	Daily Grist
Getting the Munchies Over the next few months, a Mobile Muncher bus will visit every large town in Spain to help the country reach its goal of recycling 100 tons of mobile phones within a year. The country developed the Mobile Muncher mascot as a way to increase public support for the campaign and inform people of the danger of throwing out their old phones; ...
Topics: green living, pollution and waste, recycling, solid waste treatment and disposal, Spain, toxics (all these topics)

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