A report to be released tomorrow states that the three fires in the districts of Coimbra, Viseu and Guarda last October, had become uncontrollable in less time than the fire in Pedrógão Grande in June, where 67 people died.
Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winner,* said that the best way to deal with climate change is to involve young people, who he asked to plant trees, consume less and eat better as they are seen as part of the solution, not the problem.
Lagos council says the horses it is auctioning off are the ones collected from public roads and whose carers did not come forward to claim them.
Portugal’s Institute of Nature Conservation and Forests (ICNF) downplayed the total area of land that had been consumed in last summer’s fires when the European Commission issued a figure of 560,000 hectares.
In 2017, the ICNF stated that 442,000 hectares had been consumed, a figure that has now been restated, showing Portugal’s assessment was far lower than the stark reality.
Minister of the Economy, Manuel Caldeira Cabral, has announced the launch of a new boost for non-EU tourists on shopping trips to Portugal.
One of Faro football club’s first team forwards, Octávio Alexandre Leal Barros, has been stabbed outside a bar in Largo do Cinema, Vilamoura.
US based investment fund, King Street Capital Management, is set to buy the Amendoeira Golf Resort in Silves.
Currently owned by Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency (NAMA), which took over loans from the Anglo Irish Bank after the founding company Oceânico ran into trouble during the recession, the golf resort remained open for business in the hope of a sale when the leisure market improved.
Secretary-General of the Social Democratic Party has resigned just a month into the job
