EURONEWS (13/4/25) Standing under an enormous olive tree, José Pedro Oliveira gently caresses its gnarled trunk. “It is more than one thousand years. Maybe older than Christ,” he says.  Located near Serpa, in the gently rolling hills of Alentejo in

NEW LINES MAGAZINE (24/4/2024) Under the banner of a “green transition,” the EU is rushing to revive mining to secure critical raw materials. Plans to build large, open-pit mines in northeastern Portugal have been met with strong opposition from local

WASHINGTON POST (22/4/2022) Sitting beneath the branches of an ancient oak on a windswept hill in Jordan’s highlands during the first week of spring, I’m surrounded by a dazzling array of wildflowers. Purple anemones, red poppies, pink cyclamen, yellow and