Photo: Arona Ayuntamiento. Tenerife has its own bonfire night, on the eve of the annual midsummer festival of San Juan Bautista (St John the Baptist). On Noche de San Juan, St John’s Eve, 23 June, Tenerife is lit up with bonfires, and with smoke swirling in the hills throughout the island, many visitors often think that an early summer fire has broken out. This year, on Sunday, is certain to be no different. The celebrations are not restricted to the inland hills and villages, however, with fires and parties on many beaches. Particularly popular are the ones held in El Médano, Los Cristianos, and FañabeREAD MORE

Photo: Salvamento Marítimo. Updated 10pm: The Coastguard says that as of 8pm the search was called off after a second day’s fruitless efforts. The search will resume by sea and air again tomorrow, from first light. Original post 16 June: Salvamento Marítimo has been searching the south Tenerife coast since yesterday when a jet ski rider went missing after getting off the vehicle to go for a swim. The search was called off last night but resumed at first light this morning, with various lifeboats and a search and rescue helicopter patrolling the coast and sea in what is being called an intense search that alsoREAD MORE

Photo: ESA. Teide is the location for a space-age solution to space junk as the European Space Agency is preparing to test a laser to be fired at space debris from old rockets and satellites left in the Earth’s orbit. The debris is considered capable of causing immense damage to satellites in current use as well as to the International Space Station, and ESA says the problem is increasing with collisions becoming impossible to prevent or even to attempt to control. The laser is housed in the Observatory at Izaña in a building set up a couple of decades ago specifically to research space laser communication,READ MORE