The cracks in Portugal’s education system appear to be worsening. There are "thousands of students without teachers" and “many complaints from parents and guardians in the Algarve, PSD MP Cristóvão Norte said earlier today.
The extreme lack of water in the northeast section of the Algarve is setting off alarm bells in the rest of the region. Amidst growing concern as to what sort of conditions will be faced in the coming months, the Castro Marim Municipal Assembly have had to defend the construction of the Foupana Dam.
The Algarve Socialist Party division have welcomed in a statement sent to newsrooms this afternoon the region's "strong political representation" in the new Government, with the inclusion of three Secretaries of State.
The Castro Marim Reserve, known to locals as the Reserva Natural do Sapal de Castro Marim e Vila Real de Santo, is a large protected area of marshland. The site is made up of an area of well over 2000 hectares lying beside the Spanish border, on the west side of the Rio Guadiana.
Air pollution occurring on the Portuguese coast caused by passing maritime traffic represents around 20 per cent of pollution caused by nitrogen oxides (NOx), one of the most harmful pollutants to human health and the environment.
The Algarve has been distinguished by the International Association of Golf Tour Operators (IAGTO) as 2020’s best golf destination in the world, adding to the region’s vast collection of accolades and growing recognition worldwide.
The Navy is on a mission to learn more about the Algarve seabed. The Andromeda hydrofoil research boat has been sailing off the Algarve coast since October 7th, with the goal of carrying out research to contribute to the mapping of marine sediments and the further description of the sedimentary rock structure of the seabed.
Environmentalists, despite agreeing wholeheartedly with the concept of rural tourism behind a recent proposal, are continuing their battle to desperately save the green region of Quinta da Rocha on the Algarve coast, close to the Ria de Alvor, from being practically demolished.
