CIVISA raised the Furnas volcano to alert level V1 on Tuesday evening after a swarm that began at 11:47 and produced a magnitude 2.9 felt at intensity V in the village. Four volcanic systems on three islands are now at V1, and only this one has an expiry date.
A nest at Areias de Rabo de Peixe confirmed Vespa velutina on São Miguel in January 2025. An IUCN grant funded by the European Union now pays for a year of mapping, nest destruction and training from 1 September. On the mainland the same insect has spread for fifteen years.
Portugal and the United States signed the Lajes defence agreement on 6 September 1951. Article XI of the 1995 accord repealed it by name. The text now in force rolls over every year, and it sorts American requests into three categories with very different answers.
The first Azorean government took office on 8 September 1976, four days after the assembly elected that June, under a 33-year-old Mota Amaral. Fifty years on the design has held and the funding has not, and a working group has eighteen months to rewrite the regional finances law.
The Bloco de Esquerda filed a requerimento in the Azorean parliament on Saturday. About 6,000 electric vehicles circulate in the region against 99 public charging points, and 27 of the 40 posts bought under the LIFE IP CLIMAZ project have never been installed.
The regional finance secretary told deputies in Ponta Delgada that updated population figures will cost about 53 million euros in 2027. The larger half turns on a cohesion-fund threshold that steps down 15 points at exactly 90 percent.
Okeanos researchers at the University of the Azores read the identification tags on stranded lobster-trap plastic: 63 percent came from the United States, 76 percent of those from Maine, carrying dates from 1983 to 2023.
