Sánchez: “More than 170,000 hectares have already burned and half of the summer is still ahead”

Sánchez: “More than 170,000 hectares have already burned and half of the summer is still ahead”

The Government has declared this Tuesday the territories affected by a total of 211 catastrophic episodes, mostly due to forest fires, that have occurred between March 31 and July 27, 2026, and that have caused damage in regions of fourteen autonomous communities, including Catalonia, as areas affected by a civil protection emergency. This declaration includes the current fires in the Community of Madrid and the provinces of Ávila and Toledo that prompted the declaration of a national interest emergency on July 23, the first time this decision has been made in emergencies derived from forest fires. Also the one recorded in the municipality of Vall d’Uixó in Castellón.

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Football polyamory

Football polyamory

Desire is an animal impossible to defeat with the weapons of logic. Chance, mocking and deceitful, it is skillful at baiting traps. One of its favorite games is the paradox of loyalties. Wanting one thing and the opposite. These cases have poor resolution. Winning is losing and losing…

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The complex metamorphosis of El Molino

The complex metamorphosis of El Molino

On June 30th, El Molino will close its doors to the public again. Barcelona Events Musicals (BEM), the company that now manages it, has reached an agreement with the City Council to terminate the concession, which was granted in 2024 and had a duration of four years. The stated reason is the imminent execution of works aimed at improving the soundproofing of the building, in response to neighborhood complaints recorded in recent months. It seems that the limitation of hours has been an obstacle to making the venue profitable, since many music shows rely on the balance between ticket sales and consumptions. Once the necessary adjustments are made, the City Council assures that it wants to continue El Molino as a reference cultural facility in the city.

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The god Escolapio protects the walk of Leonor and Sofía through the ruins of Empúries

The god Escolapio protects the walk of Leonor and Sofía through the ruins of Empúries

Asclepius (Escolapio) the Greek god of medicine, welcomed, this Wednesday, Princess Leonor and Infanta Sofía, at the gates of the ruins of Empúries. The daughters of the Kings took a walk through the origin of the territory, now known as Girona, which twenty-seven centuries ago was a commercial hub throughout the Mediterranean thanks to Empúries, the market founded by the Greeks that, after a period under the Roman Empire and being lost in the early Middle Ages, was reborn last century as the most important Greco-Roman archaeological site in the Spanish Mediterranean.

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Climate change makes extreme heat in the Mediterranean common

Climate change makes extreme heat in the Mediterranean common

The European sea usually reserves its highest temperatures for August or September. But this year, at the end of July, it already reached its highest value since daily satellite records began in 1982. The same happened in the western Mediterranean. A new analysis shows that that previously extraordinary heat is becoming part of the usual climate. Human-caused warming has added around 1.4 °C to the highs off the peninsula and nearly 1.9 °C in the western Mediterranean.

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