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The Hospital Curry Cabral in Lisbon seen from the street, its yellow blocks with red window surrounds standing behind a low wall, with cars parked outside and a crossing in the foreground.

The WHO Counted Sixty-Six Clade Ib Mpox Cases in Portugal in Six Weeks, More Than Germany, France and Britain Together

Monday's situation report puts Portugal third in Europe on cumulative clade Ib cases and first on recent ones. The last national bulletin the Direcção-Geral da Saúde published is dated 31 May 2025, and it says Portugal had recorded no clade Ib cases at all.

The Portugal Brief 14 Sep 2026

Aerial view of Porto Covo on the Alentejo coast, its small harbour full of boats and the rocky Ilha do Pessegueiro lying offshore.

An Invasive Japanese Alga Now Covers the Sea Floor Off Sines Down to Twelve Metres, Ten Years After It Was First Logged in the Marina

Rugulopteryx okamurae runs from Melides to Azenha do Mar, worst at São Torpes and Ilha do Pessegueiro. It blocks light and oxygen, and the coralline algae, wracks and kelps under it die. It has been banned from the EU market since August 2022, which is the problem.

The Portugal Brief 13 Sep 2026

Steam rising from fumaroles beside a wooden boardwalk at Lagoa das Furnas on São Miguel, with earth mounds used for cooking pits in the foreground.

A Magnitude 2.9 Four Kilometres From Furnas Adds a São Miguel Volcano to the Azores Alert List, and the Warning Expires in Eight Days

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.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

The white louvred facade of the Porto Business School campus building under a clear blue sky, with poplars in front of the entrance signage

Portugal Made Room for Forty Deep Tech Teams in Porto and Filled Thirty-One, With Nearly Half the Cohort Still at Proof of Concept

Tech Foundry Portugal started on Tuesday with 31 projects from 98 applications. The government's June call offered up to 40 places over four months; the cohort that began fills 31 of them over three.

The Portugal Brief 08 Sep 2026

The pink-painted street beside Cais do Sodré in Lisbon, lined with bar and club frontages under iron balconies, a few people walking past.

Loures Hands Out 20,000 Drink-Testing Wristbands, and the Mayor Says There Was No Incident Behind It

The first 5,000 went out at the gate of a Carl Cox concert on Saturday evening. The chemistry came out of a NOVA Lisbon laboratory, the whole campaign cost 22,000 euros split with the promoter, and Ricardo Leão says the council has no record of a single spiking case.

The Portugal Brief 05 Sep 2026

The pale concrete facade of the Teresa e Alexandre Soares dos Santos Library on the Nova SBE campus at Carcavelos under a deep blue sky

The European Research Council Split 705 Million Euros Between 421 Young Researchers, and Exactly One Works in Portugal

Nikita Melnikov of Nova School of Business and Economics won the only Starting Grant hosted in Portugal, which ties the country with Slovenia, Lithuania and Luxembourg. Germany took 89, from a record 4,807 proposals filed.

The Portugal Brief 03 Sep 2026

The painted sea wall of Horta marina on Faial in the Azores, covered in sailors' murals, with the white town and green hills behind

A Study of 1,577 Pieces of Litter on Faial and Pico Traced Most of It to Lobster Boats in Maine

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.

The Portugal Brief 02 Sep 2026

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