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Balearics to handle over two million more passengers over next four years. The organisations cite a study by Transport & Environment according to which the ultrafine particles generated by air traffic at the airports of Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga and Palma – around which more than 8 million people live – are linked to 52,205 cases of high blood pressure, 64,918 cases of diabetes and 5,340 cases of dementia
Mostly yellow alerts on Wednesday, but amber on Thursday. The met agency indicates that severe storms can be expected until Friday
Completed in 2024 in Constitución, Chile. Images by Estudio Palma. On February 27, 2010, central Chile was struck by an 8.8-magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale, which was followed by a tsunami. More than half...
Pollensa and Santanyí failed to meet the minimum cleanliness thresholds due to local runoff. Only last month, around 200 people gathered in Puerto Pollensa to demand urgent measures to restore the quality of the water in Pollensa Bay
A 64-year-old woman on a Mallorca street allegedly found herself fighting to escape after a British couple tried to force her into their car
Government promises to examine viable EU measures on housing if they do not affect residents. There are 540,000 homes in the Balearics, of which 110,000 – 17 per cent – are vacant, a figure that rises to 57 per cent in Costitx and 38 per cent in Llubí and Sant Joan, and that there are 9,345 vacant homes in Palma, according to data from the National Statistics Institute
What exists is a feeling and perception of saturation of tourism and its related activities; not with tourists. From the late 1980s onwards, there was growth that was not paralleled by an increase in the standard of living
New York, London and Paris top the British consultancy’s 2026 Global Cities Index. Palma’s greatest strengths are the environment, governance and quality of life
Lady Amelia Windsor is 44th in line to the throne. In 2018, Amelia released a collaboration with Penelope Chilvers for a line of shoes, and modelled for the line in a video campaign in Spain. Twenty percent of the proceeds from her shoe collection were donated to War Child, a charity that aids children in conflict areas
Unsettled until the weekend. A trough will move in on Wednesday, with another trough expected on Friday
Capacity problems, staff shortages and traffic growth. The Palma control centre reached a new all-time record for daily traffic during the summer
Mallorca is looking to attract wealthier American tourists as the popular Balearic Islands destination grapples with overtourism and growing anger among locals in Spain.
