Canary Islands poverty has stopped falling: 704,000 people at risk, and rent hits twice as hard
“We expected a drop of at least 2%.” That is how Fernando Rodríguez, vice-president of EAPN Canarias, described the reaction to the latest figure, using a colloquial word: “chafados”, deflated. The report “El estado de la pobreza. Canarias. 2026” was handed on Thursday 15 October to Astrid Pérez, president of the Canary Parliament. The numbers, […]
The Botija wind farm is the first in the Canaries owned entirely by a municipality
On Friday 9 October, Canary Islands president Fernando Clavijo went up to Los Llanos de Botija, in Gáldar on Gran Canaria, to watch a crane lift the structure of the third wind turbine. It had been unloaded at the Puerto de La Luz the week before. The blades were still missing. Most stories about renewables […]
The Roque de los Muchachos is inaugurating the four large Cherenkov telescopes
You can’t see a gamma ray. When one arrives from space and hits the atmosphere, though, it leaves a bluish flash lasting a few billionths of a second, Cherenkov light. The four large telescopes (LSTs, Large-Sized Telescopes) at the Roque de los Muchachos exist to catch that flash on the fly. Their inauguration was set […]
Rural Women’s Day at ULL: Science and Territory
Today, in the Aula Magna of the Physics and Mathematics sections at the University of La Laguna, the subject is the countryside. The conference motto is “Sembrando Futuro: Mujer, Ciencia y Territorio”. You can attend in person or follow online, with registration through the link the university has published. It is organised by the Cátedra […]
The Canarian desalination lab DESAL+, led by the ITC, wins Water Europe’s 2026 award
On Tuesday 13 October, in Dublin, two people walked on stage to collect an award about an island 2,000 kilometres away. Jafeth Alonso, the Canarian government’s director general of Universities and Research, and Baltasar Peñate, head of the Water Department at the Canary Islands Technological Institute (ITC) and DESAL+ coordinator, received the Water-Oriented Living Lab […]
Canary Islands housing: government asks Brussels and Madrid for power to curb purchases by non-resident foreigners
Start with what hasn’t happened: no law currently stops or limits anyone from buying a home in the Canary Islands. What did happen, on 13 October, is that the Canarian government laid out in Parliament two separate requests to be able to do so in future. If you are weighing a purchase, or have one […]
The Canaries are wasting more than 15% of their clean power because there’s nowhere to store it
More than 15% of the renewable energy produced in the Canary Islands never makes it into the electricity system. It isn’t a shortage of turbines or panels. At certain hours more power arrives than the grid can take, and there is nowhere to set it aside. Energy minister Mariano Hernández Zapata said so in Parliament […]
What is a race worth? Santa Cruz hosts a European triathlon, and nobody has published the balance sheet yet
We know who won. We do not know what it cost or what it left behind. That sums up, for now, the balance of the European Triathlon Cup that filled Santa Cruz de Tenerife on Sunday 11 October. Start with what can be checked. The race was sprint distance: 750 metres of swimming, 20 km […]
Four times a year, the same beach: how the Canaries are tracing where their rubbish comes from
On Sunday 11 October, at Tazacorte on the island of La Palma, a group of people did something that looks trivial: they counted rubbish. Object by object, type by type, on a stretch of sand chosen in advance. Behind that gesture is a European project with an easy name to remember, CIRCULAROCEAN. The Canary Government’s […]
A year of living in the Canaries costs 4.4% more, and transport is the bill that bites
If you live in the Canaries and feel that getting around costs a little more each month, September’s numbers back you up. Consumer prices in the archipelago were 4.4% higher than a year earlier. The item that ran fastest was transport, up 10%. Atlántico Hoy published the figure on 14 October and attributes it to […]