20 July 2018
While there is no doubt about the vast scale of the plastic pollution problem, it is far from clear how places like the Algarve, mainland Portugal, are going to cope with the crisis. Marine plastic pollution, particularly microplastic material, is a serious but as yet not fully understood threat to nature and to human health. […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
14 July 2018
The Portuguese parliament has approved a law allowing gender change and name change from the age of 16 without a medical report stating “identity disruption” or considering transgender identity as “an abnormal pathology or mental situation.” A previous law (2011) required transgender citizens to have a medical diagnosis that established ‘gender dysphonia’ when biological sex […]
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13 July 2018
For the seventh consecutive year, 16 world class cliff divers from 17 countries gathered in São Miguel, Azores, to participate in the third stop of the 2018 International Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series. The competition includes 28 athletes men and women from 17 countries. This stop of the extreme sports event is being held July […]
Posted in Azores, Featured, Organizations, People, São Miguel, Sports, World
10 July 2018
Portuguese club Sport Lisboa and Benfica (Benfica) has invited the 12 rescued Thai young soccer players and their soccer coach to spend an all-expenses-paid week in Portugal, at their Seixal training academy, Reuters reported. The boys were rescued from a vast cavernous system in northern Thailand on a complex three-day operation. Rescuers completed the rescue […]
Posted in Awards, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
06 July 2018
Portuguese lawmakers rejected a bill banning bullfights, submited by PAN, the People-Animals-Nature party. The bill was rejected by all major parties with few abstentions. During the debate, Deputy André Silva of the PAN, a party represented by a single deputy, defended that bullfighting is execrable fun, based on torture, “consisting in showing the most abject […]
Posted in Featured, Heritage, Organizations, People, Politics, Portugal, World
05 July 2018
The 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, will be the keynote speaker at a conference titled ‘Climate Change Leadership Porto 2018 Summit’ taking place on Friday, July 6, at the Porto Coliseum. The event will address environmental issues focusing on climate change and solutions. Climate change was one of President Obama’s main concerns […]
Posted in Conferences, Featured, Organizations, People, Portugal, World
