The Mallorca Design Festival 2027 will once again convene the National Landscape Architecture Award, endowed with 3,000 euros by the Jardins Tramuntana studio. The award, which reaches its second edition, is aimed at students, graduates, and professionals with a maximum of five years of experience, residing in Spain. Proposals can be submitted until December 30, 2026.

The feature documentary The Old Mariner's Odyssey, directed by Marta Hierro and Núria Abad, has begun its journey in the film festival circuit on the right foot after premiering at CaixaFòrum Palma. In an interview granted to the Ràdio Illa studios, co-director Núria Abad highlighted the project's warm reception, which has just been awarded first prize for best feature documentary at the Som Cinema festival in Lleida, before continuing its path through the Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival in Palma and the Suncine in Barcelona.

The forests of the Balearic Islands have begun a transformation that will turn them, according to experts, into spaces increasingly similar to Morocco. The comparison, which is part of the Forest Network's analysis, is one of the warnings issued by forestry technicians after a summer that has particularly punished pine trees, holm oaks, and other Mediterranean species. The succession of extreme droughts and heatwaves threatens to transform the vegetation we know today. The first effects are already visible. “The change in landscape, without a doubt, has begun,” warns Carolina Rodríguez, territorial dean of the Official College of Forestry Engineers, to ARA Balears.

With the Balears Verd project, Miquel Ramis, a master stonemason, farmer, and building restorer, proposes planting a million trees and shrubs. Author of Regenerative Agriculture, he says that it is urgent to take action to mitigate climate change.

The Institutional Repository of the University of the Balearic Islands has incorporated the collection Watching from space, which brings together 91 popular science articles published by Dr. Joan Bauzà Llinàs, a member of the Climatology, Hydrology, Natural Risks and Territory research group (CLIMARIS) and the Center for Geographic Information Technologies (CTIG), between the years 2016 and 2020 in the weekend edition of ARA Balears.

The third edition of Conscious Cinema, the environmental film series promoted by Mallorca Preservation, kicks off this Thursday, September 24, in Palma, with a program of four documentaries and discussions with experts. The screenings will take place at the Estudi General Lul·lià and will address issues such as the conservation of wetlands, the disappearance of large sharks in the Mediterranean, soil regeneration, and the recovery of the Mediterranean monk seal.

The Parliament will demand that the Spanish government consider declaring the underwater mountains of the Mallorca Channel as a National Marine Park thanks to the approval of a Non-Legislative Proposal (PNL) by the PSIB in the Chamber's Economy Commission. All parties except Vox have voted in favor of this initiative to protect the underwater mountains located between Mallorca and the Pitiüses, "one of the most unique and valuable marine spaces in the western Mediterranean," according to the text of the PNL. It is a structure 275 kilometers long, with peaks reaching 94 meters in depth and habitats that extend to more than 1.2 kilometers. Les Olives, Ausiàs March, and Émile Baudot are the mountains that are part of these spaces, which host rhodolith beds (stone-shaped marine algae), corals, sponges, and deep-sea gorgonians.

The platform No to the import of waste has demanded that the Consell de Mallorca review the calculation of the waste tariff and carry out independent audits in view of the "serious conclusions" of the financial control report. Faced with information about the publication of the island institution's financial control report, the platform, made up of 20 entities, has focused on the "stratospheric profits" obtained by the concessionaire company Tirme.

Deià began this Friday to apply water cuts three days a week at the La Residència hotel and in various areas of the municipality due to a lack of resources to guarantee supply. The restriction affects Monday, Wednesday, and Friday the Llucalcari sector, l’Empeltada, the Caves of can Puigserver, la Cala and the area of the road towards Sóller.

More than 10,000 boats will set sail off the coast of the Balearic Islands to witness the eclipse on August 12, a meteorological event that could have "very negative" environmental consequences. This is explained by Raquel Vaquer, a biologist at the Marilles Foundation, who assures that "the destruction of marine flora and fauna that could occur if the rules are not respected during the 1.5-minute eclipse will take decades to recover".

The Prosecutor's Office of the Balearic Islands has filed a lawsuit following the complaint filed by the Association of Navigators ADN Mediterrani regarding the management of buoy fields by Ports de les Illes Balears (PortsIB). The procedure has already been assigned to the Investigation Section of the Palma Court of Instance, where it has been registered as preliminary proceedings.

The release of Nura, a sea turtle that has spent several months recovering at the Palma Aquarium Marine Fauna Recovery Centre, served this Wednesday to present the 'Aquí Salvam Tortugues' campaign, an initiative that aims to raise awareness about how to act when an specimen or nest is found on the coast.

Let's start with the conclusion: the protection of the Balearic lizard has failed; the snake invasion – first detected in Ibiza in 2003 – has been fatal for the most emblematic animal species of the Pitiusas Islands. In Ibiza, the lizard has disappeared from 90% of the territory; it has "two or three years left", according to Dr. Antònia Maria Cirer, a pioneer in the study of this reptile and a leading critic of the protection policies adopted by the Government. On the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List, the Balearic lizard currently appears as a species "in danger of extinction" and in rapid decline, with a "marginal" and "fragmented" population distribution. On the ground, almost any farmer in Ibiza will tell you that for years they haven't seen any of the lizards that, in the past, populated the traditional dry stone walls, a centuries-old symbiosis between humans and these animals.

Oceanic seagrass meadows are experiencing an "accelerated decline". This is determined by a study carried out by the Institute of Interdisciplinary Physics and Complex Systems (IFISC-CSIC-UIB), the Center for Advanced Studies of Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia). The research has shown that prolonged warming degrades oceanic seagrass meadows even when temperatures remain below lethal limits.

The first time Marco Magazzu (Rome, 1990) swam in Thailand next to giant manta rays, he almost drowned. “Seriously, I started crying. I would do the same if I had the luck to find sharks in their natural habitat, in the open sea. I would do it out of emotion, not fear!”, he confesses. A marine biologist with a master's degree in Aquatic Ecology, he is part of the technical team of the Palma Aquarium Foundation, responsible for the Balearic Islands' cetacean stranding network. He also takes care of and rehabilitates turtles, but today he is here to debunk Spielberg and correct the bad reputation of sharks.

The Trenc in the background, dressed in shorts, a t-shirt, and a hat, more like a tourist than a resident, with his feet in the water. This has been the video made by the Minister of Agriculture of the Government, Joan Simonet, to defend himself against accusations of neglecting the Trenc Natural Park. The video begins with a phrase that is repeated over and over again: "Don't be fooled".

The meeting in Petra to report on the Son Brau chicken mega-farm project in Manacor became a call for unity of "all the municipalities of Mallorca" against this project that the promoting company wanted to launch in Sineu and has now moved to the capital of Llevant, as well as against other similar initiatives that may be promoted on the island's rural land.

The entity Arrels Marines has received a citizen complaint within the framework of the #LaMarNoÉsTeva campaign, in which a user has recorded the daily overcrowding in a protected area of the Bay of Palma, near Cap Enderrocat, a space declared a marine reserve and integrated into the Natura 2000 Network as a Site of Community Importance (SCI).

The Government's Marine Conservation Plan, which was intended to position the Balearic Islands as an "international benchmark in marine environmental protection", as stated by the Executive, was nothing more than "a declaration of intent", according to the Director General of Fisheries, Antoni M. Grau. The plan was conceived without any budget allocation and has not been made public, despite requests from parties such as the PSIB, which has repeatedly called for it without the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Environment, headed by Joan Simonet, facilitating access to the document. The Government, conservation organisations, and representatives of the fishing sector signed the plan on February 16, and little has been heard of it since President Marga Prohens presented it.