IslamHenrietta Szovati and imam Ajmal Masroor bought a 35-acre farmhouse near Malaga for their House of Andalus, with 400 olive trees and plans for a Quranic garden and a library.
AgrotechA legged robot with cameras, sensors and AI models is being tried among Tempranillo vines in Ribera del Duero and blackberries under tunnels in Huelva, on ground too rough for wheeled machines.
EnvironmentFrom Spain's Mar Menor to Northern Ireland's Lough Neagh, nutrient runoff from intensive livestock and crop farming, along with sewage and warmer water, is fuelling algal blooms that have shut swimming spots and cut fishers' catches.
CropsUniversity of Lleida researchers grew two modern wheat varieties under heat tents over two seasons and found pre-flowering heat cut grain number, post-flowering heat cut grain weight, and an early wave softened the damage of a later one.
The EU has seen more than 1,750 wildfires this summer; grazing herds eat the scrub that feeds them, but after 27,000 hectares burned near Madrid the government plans goats on only 3,700, far less than needed.
The Valencia start-up plans 96 units a year at first and 1,000 in the longer term; the four-motor, battery-swapping Thor 3 is to be the first production-ready version.
A round-up of important news from around the world for Jagonews readers on 31 July 2024.
A Spanish tourist was trampled to death by an elephant after getting out of his car to photograph a herd up close in South Africa's Pilanesberg park.
Hundreds of people brought their pets to a Madrid church for a blessing as a new Spanish law recognised animals as part of the family.
