On Saturday the 1st of May, a sailboat was found adrift near Ilhéu Chão, Desertas islands, and towed back to Funchal as part of a joint rescue operation between the Maritime Police and SANAS.
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According to information released on the Portuguese Institute of Atmosphere and Sea website, a 1.4 magnitude earthquake was recorded southeast of the Desertas at 01.39 this morning.
Madeira has been showcased on Russian TV presenter, Zhanna Badoeva's travel programme, 'The Lives of Others.' The programme was released today, Sunday the 2nd of May, on Youtube and Channel One Russia.
The Regional Secretary for the Environment, Natural Resources and Climate Change today issued a plea asking everyone to protect the respect the Monk Seal that is resting on the beach in Paul do Mar.
The Madeiran Sousa Group has announced that it is collaborating with the Portuguese Navy as part of its sustainability policy.
In March this year, sports and leisure company, Endemicxperiences, released photographs of ‘Porto dos Frades' which they described as an 'incredible place in Porto Santo,' only to return one month later, to find the area strewn with litter and graffiti; both of which they state, degrade nature, not enhance it!
The fur seal that was recently spotted in Paul do Mar, today returned to its new resting place.
As part of a week long rubbish collection initiative, 'Porto Santo Sem Lixo,' crew members from the NGO ship Kraken, alongside 80 other members of the community, including Air Force personnel took part in the island clean-up operation.
A tourist was seriously injured on Saturday, the 24th while walking along a levada close to the Ginjas Business Park, São Vicente.
At 01:15 this morning, the Portuguese Institute of Atmosphere and Sea recorded an earthquake registering 2.6 on the Richter Scale off the southeast coast of the Desertas Islands.
The Regional Secretary for Health and Civil Protection, Pedro Ramos, has confirmed that he has not committed himself to making any changes in screening measures at airports in the Region, even when some of the restrictive measures are eased and air mobility is more consistent.
The autopsy of Maminhas, the female Monk Seal who was found dead on the Desertas Islands has revealed that she died of natural causes.
As of tomorrow afternoon, Thursday the 22nd of April, the weather is set to deteriorate as depression Lola begins to make her presence felt. Wind intensity will become moderate to strong, with gusts up to 80 km/h expected in mountainous, eastern, and western regions of the island.
A new species of insect was discovered in Madeira by Énio Freitas and Dora Aguin-Pombo, members of the University of Madeira who recently published their study in the European Journal of Taxonomy. The new species, named Cixius wollastoni Freitas & Aguin-Pombo 2021 (Also known as a plant hopper), is in recognition of Thomas H. Wollaston, a pioneer in the study of Madeira's entomological fauna.