The Navy, through the Funchal Maritime Search and Rescue Coordination Subcentre, carried out 10 missions in the first six months of this year, saving eleven lives.
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The III Seminar 'Levadas da Madeira' took place this week in the auditorium of the Madeira Archive and Library, and included the application process of classifying the levadas of Madeira as UNESCO world heritage sites.
Monte Palace Madeira – Tropical Garden will once again celebrate the Day of the Autonomous Region of Madeira and the Madeiran Communities, on the 1st of July, by providing the region's residents with free admission into the gardens.
With an orange alert coming into effect tomorrow and then decreasing to a yellow alert on Thursday, SANAS has provided bathers with some sensible summer advice.
An aircraft that left Porto Santo shortly after noon today and was seen flying up and down the south coast from west to east created a lot of curiosity among those who were using Flightradar 24 to track its movements.
A man threw himself into the sea, in front of the pontoon of the Madeira Electricity Company yesterday, and is still missing.
A Spanish tourist aged between 40 -50 fell fifty metres yesterday morning at the Água d' Alto, in São Vicente, while canyoning.
The Porto Santo City Council will pay 679,000 euros to the families of the two victims resulting from the fall of the palm tree in Largo do Pelourinho, Porto Santo.
A team from the Portuguese Institute of Atmosphere and Sea (IPMA), the Regional Laboratory of Veterinary and Food Safety of Madeira (LRVSA), the Maritime Police, the Institute of Forests and Nature Conservation (IFCN-IP-RAM), and LIDH Foundation (Go Deeper-EmPowered by Yamaha Programme) are currently stationed at Selvagem Grande conducting a sampling campaign for the collection of fish potentially contaminated with ciguatoxins (CTX).
After a survey by the Institute of Forests and Nature Conservation (IFCN) on the walking routes in both Madeira and Porto Santo, they have announced that five routes are closed due to degradation.
An analysis by sustainable transport group Transport & Environment reveals that Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest luxury cruise operator, emitted nearly 10 times more sulfur oxides (SOX) in European seas than all 260 million European cars in 2017.
The University of Minho (Portugal), in partnership with Fibrenamics and Sciencentris, will host the 6th International Conference on Natural Fibers (ICNF2023) on the 19th, 20th, and 21st of June, at VidaMar Resort Hotel, in Funchal, Madeira.
During the raising of the blue flag at the Ponta Gorda bathing complex, the Mayor of Funchal, Pedro Calado, announced that the beach will have, from tomorrow, Monday the 19th, a second surveillance post, located next to the new promenade to strengthen beach security.
The Regional Secretary for Equipment and Infrastructure, Pedro Fino, who was today at the closing of the Cherry Festival in Jardim da Serra, which has been celebrated since 1954, addressed local producers, admitting that, unfortunately, the recent rains and storm have created difficulties.
A new hybrid orchid has been created and named after the city of Funchal.
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