Night heat causes more deaths in Barcelona than high daytime temperatures in the current context of climate change, according to two studies, which advocate for the incorporation of minimum values into public heat alert systems and the prioritization of housing cooling needs to preserve rest.
The story of Curra, who is 94 years old today, is that of many other women in the 1950s. Young girls who became pregnant by a man who disappeared and were forced to disguise their situation for fear of what people would say. It happened to Curra with Benito 73 years ago, when she became pregnant. Curra’s parents hid her throughout the pregnancy and concealed the real kinship, making Benito, in everyone’s eyes, the son of her grandparents and Curra’s brother. Now, 73 years later, they have been able to register in the Civil Registry of Tarifa (Cádiz) as what they really are: mother and son.
Health has become one of the main factors that determine what we eat and what products we choose when we are in front of the shelf. According to a NIQ study on eating habits and trends in Spain, 68% of Spaniards claim to be proactive in improving their well-being, actively seeking products that provide specific health benefits.
Desolation permeates the Sierra Norte Natural Park, in Guadalajara, which since last Friday (six days!) has been devoured by flames. More than 32,000 hectares have burned (these are estimates; until it is extinguished, the burned area cannot be reliably verified, forest agents clarify), a good part of one of Spain’s most beautiful and unknown natural spaces, mainly due to its proximity to Madrid, which always turns nearby regions into transit areas.
The Community of Madrid activated this Wednesday Operational Situation 2 of the Forest Fire Plan due to the forest fire in Almorox (Toledo), which has forced the evacuation of the El Encinar del Alberche urbanization in the Madrid municipality of Villa Del Prado, where the population has been confined.
The Archbishopric of Barcelona has intervened in three foundations linked to the Church, where it has the capacity to appoint trustees, after detecting several irregularities in the administrative area. These are the Valldejuli Foundation, the Sant Josep Oriol Foundation, and the Mare de Déu dels Desemparats Foundation. In the first case, there has been a depatrimonialization, while in the other two, simply poor management.
The administrative contentious court number 14 annuls the decision of the rector of the University of Barcelona (UB) to suspend a Sociology professor from employment, involved in the alleged abuses of professor Ramón Flecha, and obliges the institution to reinstate “the full exercise of her teaching, research and management functions from which she was provisionally suspended.”
Yesterday’s approval of the tobacco bill by the Council of Ministers is causing a stir. Especially among the restaurant and nightlife sectors. In this regard, Fecasarm, the Catalan employers’ association for restaurants and nightlife, and Spain Nightlife, the national employers’ association for nightlife, have issued a statement to show their rejection of the bill.
The French Parliament definitively approved on Tuesday the law prohibiting access to social networks for minors under 15, a measure that makes France the first country in Europe to establish a general restriction of this type and which the Government aims to apply from the start of the next school year.
Cyclosporiasis, a gastrointestinal illness caused by ingesting a microscopic parasite, has infected more than 10,000 people in 34 U.S. states, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and two months after the origin of this “explosive diarrhea” outbreak was declared, it continues to grow and eludes the efforts of the country’s health authorities.