The Algarve's sea is currently colder than the west and north coasts — roughly 18-19°C versus 20-21°C — an inversion of the usual summer pattern. The cause is the 'nortada' wind driving coastal upwelling, which pushes warm surface water offshore and pulls colder water up from the deep.
A Eurasian otter has been caught on a camera trap in Pena Park — the first confirmed record of the species in the interior of the Serra de Sintra in several decades. Parques de Sintra, which has doubled biodiversity spending to €5M this year, called it a marker of the habitat's recovering health.
Lampsy Health, a Lisbon medtech spun out of the Instituto Superior Tecnico, has won €350,000 from the EU's European Innovation Council, taking its total funding towards €1M. Its contactless bedside lamp watches sleeping epilepsy patients for seizures; electronics and assembly are done in Portugal, a
A real-estate firm controlled by Benfica president Rui Costa has appeared on the Bank of Portugal's credit-default register over an unpaid €15.3M Banco Montepio loan. Despite a €670k 2025 profit, 10 Invest ended the year with €536.25 in cash — its wealth locked in unsold flats at its Oeiras 'Dream L
Justice Minister Rita Alarcao Judice has defended Interior Minister Luis Neves, saying he is 'managing the process the best way he knows how,' as a probe into construction firm Construbarcelos — €1.9M in public contracts and works on his Odemira home — draws in the government.
Portugal's first lobbying rules enter into force on 27 July, 180 days after promulgation. A public Transparency Register (RTRI) run by Parliament, plus a mandatory 'legislative footprint' logging every contact, will govern how companies, firms and NGOs influence policy — with suspensions of up to tw
The five Portuguese skipper licence levels, how to train and sit the exam, the fees, using a foreign licence, and registering your boat.
