The crux of the problem about the revival and conservation of the Cantabrian capercaillie bird could be that the decline in pine forests has not been linked with its survival. This is the conclusion ...

The brown bear (Ursus ar tos) population in the Cantabrian Mountains of northwest Spain is among the most endangered bear populations worldwide. It is divided into 2 isolated and genetically ...

The principality of Asturias, located in the far north of Spain, is dramatic and hard country. With mountains rising steeply from the coast, and bashed by cold winter storms rolling in from the ...

The Cantabrian brown bear (Ursus arctos) population of northwest Spain has been monitored since 1982. Population trends have been estimated using counts of females with cubs-of-the-year (hereafter, F ...

Scientists followed the brown bear population through the mountains of the Cantabrian Cordillera between 1998 and 2007 in order to find out about their hibernation habits, which had been questioned in ...

After 700 years, the Trasllambrión glacier in Spain has completely disappeared, marking the end of an ice age in the Picos de ...

In northern Spain’s Cantabrian Mountains, winter snow often blankets the landscape. Yet inside nearby karst caves, temperatures remain surprisingly mild and ste ...

A brown bear has been spotted in the northwest of Spain for what is thought to be the first time in 150 years. The bear wandered past camera traps set up by a film crew, local reports say. The crew of ...

The term Astur-Cantabrian Wars refers to the long conflict that the Romans waged along the Spanish Cantabrian coast for a decade, between 29 and 19 B.C. The subjugation of Hispania’s last resistant ...

It’s like two cities for the price of one. In northern Spain, Gijón both occupies and straddles a small peninsula that juts into the Cantabrian Sea. On either side of the headland you’ll find separate ...

A team of Spanish scientists followed the brown bear population through the mountains of the Cantabrian Cordillera between 1998 and 2007 in order to find out about their hibernation habits, which had ...