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The forest fire in Niebla (Huelva) declared this past August 6 has already been confirmed as the most severe in the history of Andalusia in terms of the number of hectares affected, alongside the one that took place in Riotinto in 2004. On that occasion, the area reached 34,000 hectares, and in the case of this year, more than 38,000 hectares have already been reported, although the first vice president of the Junta de Andalucía and Minister of Health and Emergencies, Antonio Sanz, has insisted that the finally burned area will be “considerably smaller.”

The Supreme Court of France has blocked the ban on the use of social networks for under 15s, approved by Parliament last month, which is a setback for President Emmanuel Macron, the main promoter of the bill.

Several images of a girl smiling with a green card in her hand in the name of Farah, where the European flag and the Spanish coat of arms can be seen, are circulating in Arabic groups on Instagram and Facebook that promote the passage from Morocco to Spain through Ceuta. They are accompanied by texts in Arabic celebrating her fate after crossing the border.

Unlike the dinosaur, when the lady managed to put on her glasses, the eclipse was no longer there. Bad luck. A hundred years since the last solar eclipse is nothing, woman. However, others, at 7:15 p.m., were already seeing it and saying to each other: “look, there is already a spot…

Neither the racket eclipse, despite it being true that perhaps it has gotten a bit out of hand for all of us, nor the fomo eclipse, although it is also true that hundreds of thousands of people all over Spain have ended up jumping on the bandwagon out of fear of looking like…

All the expectations, curiosity, and hyperventilation culminated in what everyone expected: absolute darkness. There were no surprises. For 4 hours and 24 minutes, the eclipse traveled across the Earth from when it emerged over the Bering Sea until it disappeared, at 21:58, in the Atlantic Ocean. But it only took eight minutes of the lunar shadow’s path across the entire country for millions of viewers to stop their lives to watch the first total solar eclipse visible from Spain in the last hundred years.

The day has finally arrived. The total solar eclipse, the first in the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands in over 100 years, will test mobility on roads and highways this afternoon, with a focus on the AP-7, and the social response to an astronomical phenomenon turned into a great spectacle that almost no one wants to miss. Without recent precedents and few possible comparisons, today one of the great unknowns will be answered: will there be massive movements, seeking the best observation point in the path of totality, from Galicia to Mallorca, where the Moon will completely cover the Sun?

Mercedes López Romero, Ciudadanos deputy in the Andalusian Parliament, advises not to look at the eclipse even with protective glasses, and if they are children, even less so. Romero suffers from 90% blindness due to having stared directly at the sun during an eclipse when she was only 8 years old, without using any type of protection.

An extraordinary deployment of forces, with 700 Mossos d’Esquadra officers mobilized for the total solar eclipse and coordinated with the various local police forces, 180 from the Traffic unit, and also resources, with a helicopter permanently flying over the AP-7 south in Catalonia during the midday and afternoon of the astronomical phenomenon. The main concern of the Servei Català de Trànsit (SCT) is to prevent a major collapse on Catalonia’s main road infrastructure. With a solar eclipse that will reach totality this August 12 around 8:30 p.m. in the regions of Tarragona, Terres de l’Ebre, and Ponent (Lleida), a very significant increase in mobility is expected throughout the afternoon.

FACUA-Consumers in Action has warned that consumer protection authorities have ordered the withdrawal of six models of glasses for the solar eclipse due to the risk of eye injuries.