On the left, Bacari Djassi from Mauritania lives and works in El Hierro (Canary Islands) as a translator for a local NGO. On the right, a map of the Canary Islands and the African coast at the ...

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.

This is San Borondón Island, whose name comes from the legend that a monk discovered it while searching for the 'Earthly ...

Svalbard, Chios, El Hierro: How these European islands have successfully avoided overtourism Despite being the fifth-largest island in Greece, Chios remains remarkably under the radar.

WE’VE all heard of the classic Canary Islands of Tenerife, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, but El Hierro often flies under the radar. The tiny island off the coast of Africa welcomed just 20,000… ...

On Oct. 9, 2011, an underwater volcano started to emerge in waters off El Hierro Island in the Canaries, Spain. Researchers only needed 15 days to map its formation in high resolution. The ...

The beautiful Canary Island that's avoided mass tourism unlike Tenerife and Lanzarote El Hierro, the second smallest Canary Island, has only one set of traffic lights and has an array of ...

El Hierro relies on Gorona del Viento, a two-year-old hybrid power station built on the southeastern part of the island, which generates energy using both wind and water.

The beautiful European island with hardly any tourists that has hot weather all year round El Hierro is one of the Canary Islands and is known for its year-round warm weather - perfect for those ...

An underwater eruption at El Hierro Volcano near Spain's Canary Islands was a rare chance to watch how volcanic islands are built.