The Porto Seco da Guarda opened on 23 October: room for 47,040 containers a year, tracks for 750-metre freight trains and about 10,000 lorries a year, run by YILPORT as an inland extension of the Port of Leixões.
A proposed methodology would let projects that restore or protect seagrass meadows earn carbon credits in Portugal, over 10 to 30 years. The technical committee backs it but wants changes, and the public can comment until 22 November.
Non-EU students can apply to the University of Lisbon for 2027/28 from 4 January to 5 February, with a second phase in April and May. Who the law treats as international, and fees from 1,500 to 7,500 euros a year.
The EU's LIFE programme will pay 1.56 million euros towards a five-year fight against water primrose in the Coimbra Region. Four more Portuguese-led projects cover Misericórdia buildings, energy poverty, hospital wastewater and environmental crime.
Kariba, an African elephant at a Belgian zoo, should join Julie, Portugal's last circus elephant, at the Pangea sanctuary near Vila Viçosa around mid-November. A third may follow early next year. What the sanctuary is, who can visit, and what the circus law says.
About 145 buyers in an alleged off-plan fraud in Palmela want deposits insured and every promissory contract registered. What the Civil Code and land registry already offer a buyer, where the gaps are, and what to check before paying.
Portugal's Ombudsman has found that a Catholic blessing at the opening of a Cascais state school raises a question under the law on Church and State, according to a secularist group, echoing the Religious Freedom Commission. Neither opinion is binding.
