Weather forecasters have issued extremely hot weather warnings for seven western European countries this week, with the heatwave potentially straining electricity supplies as air conditioning use soars.
Eumetnet, the public European weather services network within the World Meteorological Organization, has issued severe hot weather warnings for most of Spain, the western half of Germany, most [...]

Summary:
Magnitude ML 2.7
Region SPAIN
Date time 2010-05-09 at 02:28:57.2 UTC
Location 37.18 N ; 3.73 W
Depth 2 km
Distances 12 km W Granada (pop 238,248 ; local time 04:28 2010-05-09)
1 km SW Santa fé (pop 14,119 ; local time 04:28 2010-05-09)
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A loggerhead sea turtle has crossed the Atlantic in five months, a Spanish nature foundation said Wednesday.
The turtle, named Aurora, was captured in the Canary Islands and a signal transmitter was placed on its 53-centimetre-long shell in July 2009.
The turtle later embarked on an Atlantic crossing during which its movements were followed over a satellite.
Aurora [...]

Spain has warmed at a faster rate than the rest of the northern hemisphere over the past three decades, according to a study prepared for the environment ministry that was published Tuesday.
The country has experienced average temperature increases of 0.5 degrees Celsius per decade since 1975, a rate that is “50 percent superior to the [...]

At the presentation of the Comprehensive Strategy for Supporting the Electric Car, which was officially brought to a close on Tuesday in Madrid, the President of the Government underlined the innovative, ambitious and sustainable nature of this Strategy and the close collaboration with the public and private sectors that the Strategy has enjoyed. These are [...]

Summary:
Magnitude ML 2.2
Region SPAIN
Galicia – Tras-os-montes
Date time 2010-04-06 at 10:14:48.0 UTC
Location 42.75 N ; 6.78 W
Depth 4 km
Distances 101 km W León (pop 136,227 ; local time 12:14 2010-04-06)
27 km NW Ponferrada (pop 65,449 ; local time 12:14 2010-04-06)
11 km W Vega de espinareda (pop 2,647 ; local time 12:14 2010-04-06)
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Automakers Renault and Nissan signed a deal with Spanish energy and infrastructure group Acciona on Tuesday to market electric cars in the country, the three companies announced.
Under the agreement signed in Madrid, Acciona will set up a network of recharging points and associated services for the vehicles.
Renault, France´s number two automaker, is to begin selling [...]

Tesla Motors has delivered its first car to a customer in Spain, and the new owner charges his Roadster exclusively with renewable energy.
Amsterdam native Otto Poldermans is a founding investor in Solar Hydro Solutions, which builds and installs solar equipment to private and commercial customers in Andalusia. Poldermans, whose twilight blue Roadster is powered by [...]