Gran Canaria is the second most populated of the Canary Islands, located off the Atlantic coast of Northwest Africa which is part of Spain. Firefighters were said to be “overwhelmed” by the ...

GRAN CANARIA is the latest European region to be hit by wildfires. The Canary island, which is part of Spain, has seen fires spread across the Tejeda area, forcing hundreds of villagers to be ...

Since Saturday, wildfires have blazed through Gran Canaria. During a press conference yesterday, authorities labelled the incident “an unprecedented environmental tragedy.” Thousands have been ...

Researchers have defined the age, location, size and geochemistry of the volcanoes of Gran Canaria during the Holocene, 11,000 years ago, in order to draw up a map of volcanic hazards for the island.