Informação: Azores Beach Areas acknowledged for their excellence
The Blue Flag is a European environmental promotion award promoted by the European Foundation for Environmental Education, a non-governmental environmental organisation, which is represented by the Regional Government of the Azores. This award distinguishes the beach areas that with excellent bathing water, lifeguards, environmental concerns, including the promotion of environmental education acti... Mais >>

Informação: Álamo Meneses raises awareness for air quality with visit to new monitoring stations
The Regional Secretary for the Environment and the Sea, Álamo Meneses, visited today the two new air quality measurement station installed in Ponta Delgada and Ribeira Grande. The results will be provided on the Internet in real-time. The visits followed an environmental education initiative, developed in collaboration with the Eco-schools network, which prepared two awareness raising se... Mais >>

Informação: "Water and Waste in the Azores - New Challenges" under debate at the 2nd ERSARA Technical Seminar
The Entity for the Regulation of Water and Waste Services (ERSARA) promotes the second edition of a technical seminar on the theme "Water and Waste in the Azores - New Challenges" to take place at João José da Graça Public Library and Regional Archives in Horta on May 3. After a first edition in 2010, it is important to reflect on the evolution registered in public water supply a... Mais >>

Informação: Bathing season in the Azores with 58 "identified bathing waters" this year
The 2012 bathing season will run from June 1 to September 30 as determined by an ordinance issued by the Regional Secretariat for the Environment and the Sea, published in the Official Journal today. Under the terms of this ordinance, 58 bathing waters across the archipelago were classified as "identified bathing waters"; 20 were identified on São Miguel and 15 on Terceira. The remaining ... Mais >>

Informação: Flores Waste Processing Centre to enter into operation within few months
The Waste Processing Centre on the island of Flores, a work with an estimated budget of about five million Euros, should enter into operation with a few months. The information was provided today by the Regional Secretary for the Environment and the Sea during a visit to the waste processing centre built in the old quarry of Lajes port. According to Álamo Meneses, the construction work ha... Mais >>

Informação: “Gold quality” awarded to 41 beach areas in the Azores
The Regional Director for Sea Affairs stated today on the island of Faial that the various distinctions awarded to the Azorean beach areas evidence the “extraordinary” environmental quality of the archipelago. The assessment was made by Frederico Cardigos during the hoisting ceremony of the “gold quality” award at the Porto de Pim Beach. This initiative is promoted by t... Mais >>