Climate crisis and neglect threaten Spain’s saffron crop
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Growers fear a perfect storm for a tradition that has long bound rural communities togetherA sharp wind shunts clouds across the low and endless skies of La Mancha as Carlos Fernández stoops to pluck the last mauve flowers of the season from the...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/22/climate-crisis-and-neglect-threaten-spains-saffron-crop

What price paradise? How a Mallorcan artists’ haven became ‘a ghost town’
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Residents say Deià was once a thriving village community – before the millionaires and billionaires moved inHigh up in Mallorca’s spectacular Tramuntana mountain range, the picturesque village of Deià is a M...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/21/deia-mallorca-artists-haven-ghost-town