A study released earlier this week predicts that even with drastic cuts in pollutant emissions, rising water levels will put 300 million people at risk worldwide by 2050. Asia will be the hardest hit; and in Portugal, the Tajo and Sado estuaries, Ria Formosa, Aveiro, and Figueira da Foz are the largest "red" zones.

Prime-minister Costa’s new four-year government programme was unveiled this week, it is a lengthy 200-page document which, according to PSD MP Cristóvão Norte, does not contain any reference to the Algarve.

Eleven researchers earlier today challenged the Environmental Impact Study (EIA) looking into the impact of the proposed airport in Montijo. Risk of flooding due to rising sea levels, seismic hazard, susceptibility to tsunami flooding, and increased emissions of aviation-related greenhouse gases were the four problems identified by scientists, who feel a “scientific conviction to promote the correct and appropriate risk assessment" of the Montijo airport project.

Key economic and expanding sectors continue to find it difficult to bolster their staff number, despite recent economic growth.

The Praia Grande Eco-Resort, a project planned to be constructed on the coastline between Armação de Pêra and Galé, has recently been slammed by environmental organisations. These organisations are claiming that the project "is clearly oversized, illegal, and destructive of the public heritage."

The company behind the new venture is called Kwako, and is headquartered in Fontainhas, Albufeira. They are set to start publicly operating in early 2020 with a fleet of environmentally friendly small two-seater vehicles.

Portugal’s parliament has approved the four-year legislative programme proposed by the government, giving Prime Minister Antonio Costa authority to govern in his second term.

The Portuguese Communist Party (PCP) presented on Monday, October 28th, in the Assembly of the Republic, a new proposal which calls for the abolition of tolls on the A22, also called the Via do Infante.