Scientists, businessmen, and activists have all urged authorities to start promoting big wind and solar energy farms across the territory. Their ‘Renewable energy, or Catalonia will clag behind’ (Renovables, o una Catalunya a la cua, in Catalan) manifesto…

In the coming days Spanish Constitution Day on Tuesday, 6th December, will merge with the Catholic Feast of the Immaculate Conception on Thursday 8th, to create one very long winter public holiday. So expect Andorra (Pyrenees)’s biggest annual traffic jams…

The vast majority of Catalan ski stations (Catalonia, Spain, Pyrenees) will be open on Saturday before the early December “Pont de la Puríssima'” holidays, which will see residents enjoying up to nine days off. Some of these ski resorts had already started…

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain will spend an estimated €2.3 million on Christmas lights. Christmas lights will be on from November 24 to January 6. While three key commercial locations in the city center will have the same lights up as last year, Passeig de…

Foto: Universitat de Barcelona The Gaia collaboration, which is responsible for the spacecraft that is currently building the largest and most precise three-dimensional map of our galaxy, will receive the 2023 Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community Trust…

The Gender and ICT group at the Open University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, UOC) is now in charge of coordinating INSPIRE, a new EU-funded center of excellence for gender equality in research that will run for 48 months starting this October.…

An underwater pipeline connecting the ports of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) and Marseille (Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France) is unlikely to help ease Europe’s energy crisis in the short term, analysts said, with Spain and France both agreeing it may not…

Global consumption of antidepressant drugs (AD) has increased dramatically in the last two decades, with Europeans the largest consumers, Euronews reported. Use of antidepressants increased by nearly two and a half times from 2000 to 2020 in 18 European countries…

On the AP-7, the highway that runs along the Mediterranean coast all the way to France, there were up to 50 km of traffic jams at various points on Friday evening ahead of what for many will be a long weekend with All Saints’ Day on Tuesday. Catalonia‘s Traffic…

Photo: Maxime Van Cleven The ‘Götheborg of Sweden,’ the largest ocean-going sailing ship in the world, is currently docked in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain) where it will spend the upcoming winter, reports Catalan News. The ship will stay in the Catalan capital…

BIOMICs group of the University of the Basque Country, Spain, (UPV/EHU) has investigated the percentage of RNA methylation in cells related to breast cancer in order to come up with new therapeutic targets in the future. The results show that RNA methylation…