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Sand and dust storms are well known as extreme weather events. They threaten health and economies from central Africa to Europe and all the way to northern China. Now, the UN General Assembly is taking action. They have declared 2025 to 2034 as the official United Nations Decade on Combating Sand and Dust Storms - and it’s officially kicking off on Friday (12 July). The resolution was brought by the Group of 77, a powerful UN group of 134 developing countries and China. Their representative, Uganda's UN Ambassador Godfrey Kwoba, told the 193-member assembly the initiative aims to “halt and mit...
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Thousands of Barcelona residents have taken to the streets to protest overtourism. Around 3,000 people from over 140 organisations took to the streets of the Spanish city on Saturday afternoon, spraying tourists with water and shouting "tourists go home". Hotel and restaurant entrances were symbolically closed off. They are calling for action before a summer season that experts say will set new records in the city and the wider region of Catalonia. Barcelona is Spain's most visited city receiving 12 million people a year, many of whom arrive via cruise ship. Rising visitor numbers are putting ...
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If you’re a regular visitor to Tenerife, you’re probably aware of one of the destination’s few downsides: the slightly lacking public transport system. The government recently announced plans for an island-wide train network that would make accessing its beaches and mountains more straightforward - and the roads less congested. But don’t expect it any time soon. By 2045, local authorities are planning to have put in place four new train services comprising some 80 kilometres of tracks altogether. Due to the hilly nature of Tenerife, 22 km of that route is set to run through tunnels. Each train...
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American tourists are flocking to Tenerife in record numbers. 5.6 million tourists visited the Spanish island in 2023, and more than 26,000 came from the United States between January and September of 2023. This marks a significant 35 per cent increase compared to the same period in 2022 and a 51 per cent growth over the 2022 summer. These figures are more than double the number of US visitors from January to September 2019. Tenerife, already known as a luxury destination for Europeans, attracts around 5 million tourists annually. Tourists from the United Kingdom comprise the largest segment, ...
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Thousands of people protested in Tenerife on Saturday calling for the Spanish island to temporarily limit tourist arrivals. Holding placards reading "People live here" and "We don't want to see our island die", they're urging for a stem to short-term holiday rentals and hotel construction which are driving up housing costs for locals. The protesters are being backed by environmental groups including Greenpeace, WWF, Ecologists in Action, Friends of the Earth and SEO/Birdlife. "We are not against tourism, we are against a model that has led us to the deterioration of our land, of our people bec...
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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against mass tourism on Spain's Canary Islands on Saturday under the slogan "The Canary Islands have a limit." A total of 55,000 demonstrators on the eight inhabited islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa demanded an upper limit on the number of tourists and called for affordable housing for locals, the state TV station RTVE and the newspaper El País reported. They waved posters that said: "Tourism increases my rent" and "Paradise is not made with concrete." The protesters were also calling for effective monitoring of the regulations...
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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against mass tourism on Spain's Canary Islands on Saturday under the slogan "The Canary Islands have a limit." A total of 55,000 demonstrators on the eight inhabited islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa demanded an upper limit on the number of tourists and called for affordable housing for locals, the state TV station RTVE and the newspaper El País reported. They waved posters that said: "Tourism increases my rent" and "Paradise is not made with concrete." The protesters were also calling for effective monitoring of the regulations...
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Tens of thousands of people demonstrated against mass tourism on Spain's Canary Islands on Saturday under the slogan "The Canary Islands have a limit." A total of 55,000 demonstrators on the eight inhabited islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa demanded an upper limit on the number of tourists and called for affordable housing for locals, the state TV station RTVE and the newspaper El País reported. They waved posters that said: "Tourism increases my rent" and "Paradise is not made with concrete." The protesters were also calling for effective monitoring of the regulations...
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