While some Canary Islands face overtourism, remote El Hierro remains untouched, boasting volcanic landscapes, sustainable ...

El Hierro, the smallest and southern-most island of the Canaries, made headlines recently after it announced plans to become the world’s first island to eradicate its carbon footprint and run ...

While protests against mass tourism rage on neighbouring islands, El Hierro – the wildest and most westerly of the Canary Islands – has quietly chosen to do things very differently. I had only been ...

Sustainable at heart: El Hierro runs on renewable energy and limits mass tourism, preserving its diverse ecosystems and cultural heritage. Nature lover’s paradise: Hike volcanic landscapes, explore ...

The name El Hierro means "island of fire", a reminder of its volcanic past, but there is no sign of any ore here. There is plenty of wind and water though, and the combined forces of the two will soon ...

El Hierro is the tiny western outpost of Spain’s Canary Islands, a place of lava cliffs, laurel forests and natural rock pools. When it comes to things to do on El Hierro, the focus here is on simple ...

Technicians inspect the pumping systems of Gorona del Viento. Jordi Busque This system pumps water from the low to the high reservoir to store spare energy produced by the windmills. Jordi Busque An ...

The smallest and most westerly of the seven main Canary Islands, El Hierro is young, in geological terms – a mere 1.2 million years old – and its volcanic landscape is far less lush than those of its ...

Ten years ago, El Hierro staked everything on sustainability and renewable energy. Today it faces another epochal challenge: migration from Africa, a phenomenon that is turning it into the Lampedusa ...