Heatwave batters Spain’s Mediterranean mussel crop
“There’s nothing left here,” sighs Javier Franch as he shakes the heavy rope of mussels he’s just pulled to the surface in northeastern Spain. They are all dead. With the…
Unfinished Spanish town fights to recover from property bust
When Spanish companies began building Valdeluz in 2006, they had a vision of a modern, upper class residential area for professionals, just 17 minutes from their work places in Madrid.…
Italy is no country for young chefs
Like many young people growing up in Sardinia, Davide Sanna loved Italian cuisine and wanted to have a successful career as a chef. But to do so, he had to…
For migrants, the Darien Gap is hell; for adventure tourists, it’s a magnet
Deep in the Panamanian jungle, Venezuelan migrant Franca Ramirez was scrambling to reach higher ground as a rushing river broke its banks, he said, when something caught his eye: a…
Italy’s ski industry fires cannon against climate change
Monte Cimone, a popular ski resort in Italy’s Apennine Mountains, invested 5 million euros in artificial snowmaking before the winter season in an attempt to stave off the impact of…
Jobless and desperate: the post-lockdown reality for many
Many workers’ lives have been abruptly upended by the coronavirus pandemic, as job losses in tourism, air travel, food and drink or other industries hit those both on fixed contracts…
Covid travel notes
AS Covid-19 mass vaccination hovers around the 60 per cent mark of the fully vaccinated population in most of Europe, its impact on serious illness, hospitalisation, mortality and public confidence…
Atatürk & U-turn
MUSTAFA Kemal Atatürk died 80 years ago this month — a month that sees Pakistan caught in a mercifully less acerbic controversy on the priceless utility or the pusillanimous strategy…
Broadening the bounds of condemnable bigotry
TV star Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett is a symbol of just how overtly the racist dehumanization of people of color continues to play out in Trump’s America.…
Integration is a two-way street
Fear stalks the fortress of Europe. Perhaps seldom in the long history of the continent has it been afflicted by such overwhelming insecurity and paranoia. ‘Muslims are coming’ dominates conversations…
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