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Ecologists in Action denounces the privileges of Madrid golf courses in the midst of...

Faced with the drought that is affecting the entire country, administrations and experts are urging the adaptation of water consumption and management, limiting waste...

Exceptional season to see brown bears in Somiedo National Park this spring

Bears come out of their dens in the spring and wander around looking for food after fasting for months. They do not stop moving...

New York State will ban gas or oil stoves and boilers in new homes

The state of New York (United States) will gradually prohibit the use of fossil fuels such as gas or diesel in cooking, heating and...

The WMO foresees more world heat records due to a new episode of 'El...

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) predicts that an 'El Niño' warming episode could develop in the coming months, especially from this summer, which will...

This will be the largest ocean census in history: it aims to discover thousands...

Global warming and current overfishing seriously threaten marine life, which is why a group of scientists and researchers has decided to take action on...

First quality images of Frosty, the rare orca calf with an almost completely white...

Frosty has become famous (or famous, her gender could not be confirmed) on the shores of southern California in recent weeks after her presence...

Record maximum temperatures in 24 stations in April, bordering on 40ºC

A total of 24 meteorological stations of the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) exceeded the maximum temperature record for the month of April last Thursday....

Is there really a plague of hybrid rabbits?

Some 1,500 municipalities in 10 autonomous communities (Aragon, Andalusia, Castilla La Mancha, Castilla y León, Catalonia, the Community of Madrid, the Valencian Community, La...

They discover the existence of 19,000 submarine mountains and volcanoes with radar systems

A team of experts from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the University of California, San Diego (United States), Chungnam National University (Republic of Korea)...

A curious study shows the ability of parrots to make video calls to their...

It may be a new advance in the study of the intelligence of parrots or perhaps it is a new candidate for the Ig...

This is the aurora borealis in Extremadura that has become the image of the...

The sky of Casar, in Cáceres, has experienced an exceptional phenomenon in the last few hours. The photographer from Extremadura Lorenzo Cordero managed to...

These are the areas where temperatures could reach 40 degrees according to Aemet

Spain will have summer temperatures this week. This has been warned by the Meteorological Agency (Aemet), which indicates that certain areas of the southern...

These are the defenders of the planet who won the Goldman 2023, the 'Nobel'...

They are not as famous as the Nobel Prizes, but the Goldman Prizes have gained international recognition for the rigor of their call and,...

France builds its first offshore wind farm in the Mediterranean, 60 km from Catalonia

The debate on the possible construction of wind farms in the waters of the Costa Brava, in Catalonia, is still open, with a long...

The Government will pass on to the Board the possible EU fine for legitimizing...

“It is not possible to dialogue on the basis of illegality. Enough of demanding dialogue about an illegality. Saving Doñana depends on everyone, but...

First images of the underwater interior of the world's second deepest blue hole

Fishermen in Chetumal Bay, in the south of the Yucatan Peninsula (between Mexico and Belize), have known about its existence for decades and some...

Pollution causes in Europe more than 1,200 premature deaths a year in children under...

More efforts are needed to protect the health of children and adolescents from the negative impacts of air pollution. This is indicated by the...

Catalonia threatened by drought makes water where there is none

If between now and the summer it does not rain and a lot in Spain, and particularly in Catalonia, we are going to have...

Eloy Revilla: "The EU is like our older brother trying to bring order to...

With a prudent expression and a forceful background, Eloy Revilla, biologist, director of the Doñana Biological Station (CSIC), represents the voice of scientists, who...

Wine also suffers from forest fires: they discover the damage caused by smoke in...

Forest fires have sometimes reached the vineyards directly, although fortunately this is not a common situation. What's more, vine crops act in many cases...

Olivia Mandle, the Catalan Greta Thunberg: "It's time to stop eating animals"

The sixteen-year-old Olivia Mandle from Barcelona has become a benchmark for environmental activism. She is one of the 130 ambassadors of the European Climate...

The organic production sector exceeds the figure of 5,000 operators in Catalonia for the...

The number of professionals working in the organic production sector grew by 1.6% in 2022 in Catalonia, surpassing for the first time the figure...

'Bio Eco Actual', a reference magazine in organic food and cosmetics, celebrates its 10th...

The Bio Eco Actual magazine, one of the leading publications in the organic food and cosmetics sector in Spain, will celebrate its tenth anniversary...

The last ten evidence of global warming (and its most severe impacts)

The planet's temperatures have already risen 1.15 ºC compared to pre-industrial times; the glaciers reduced their thickness by more than 1.3 meters in 2022,...

This may be the definitive explanation for why insects are attracted to artificial light

Artificial lighting sources cause high mortality in various insect populations. In addition to this environmental concern, the attraction of insects to light sources has...

Hybrid solar eclipse: this is the celestial phenomenon that will not be repeated for...

This week a very special phenomenon will take place on our planet: the hybrid solar eclipse. This celestial phenomenon will cause the moon to...

They discover a new species of highly venomous jellyfish with 24 eyes in Hong...

It belongs to one of the orders (a taxonomic category between class and family) of jellyfish that are most dangerous to humans that are...

Temperatures in Europe are rising twice the global average

The European average temperature in the last five years was around 2.2 °C above the pre-industrial era (1850-1900). Thermometers in Europe are rising twice...

New details of the strange Tully monster, inhabiting Earth 300 million years ago

Both the scientific name and the popular one (also assigned by specialists) can be misleading because Tully's monster (Tullimonstrum gregarium) really had a strange...

The Barcelona region will go into emergency in September if it does not rain

The region of Barcelona and Girona, which are mainly supplied by the dwindling resources of the Ter and Llobregat, will enter the emergency phase,...

New 'biofouling': the plastics that pollute the sea facilitate a dangerous invasion of species

Biofouling (biofouling or biological fouling) is a natural and widely studied phenomenon that consists of the accumulation of living organisms (from bacteria to plants,...

What are giant African snails like? human food for 170,000 years

Snails are part of the human diet (albeit modestly at present) in various regions and countries of the world, especially in the Mediterranean area,...

Few rains and temperatures that will continue above normal during this week

The week that has just begun will not have significant weather changes until Friday, since rain is hardly expected until then and the maximum...

The Government guarantees that in June it will have the water plan required by...

The Government of the Generalitat expects to approve in June the hydrological plan for the internal Catalan basins for the period 2022-2027. This was...

New data on chemical tactile receptors in octopus arms: evolutionary jewels

Octopuses and squids are cephalopods with characteristics and capacities very different from those of marine mollusks such as slugs or snails. These octopods have...

Tulare Lake is reborn thanks to heavy rains in California: this has been its...

Tulare Lake was considered the largest body of freshwater west of the Mississippi River until it completely dried up and disappeared. The last time...

Alert for the possible appearance of a new episode of El Niño in less...

The World Meteorological Organization issued a forecast report on March 1 indicating that "it is possible that an El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) event...

They discover the oldest known bat species: it lived 52.5 million years ago

The scientific community knows of the existence, at present, without counting the fossils, of more than 1,400 species of bats (bats). That is, approximately...

The EU threatens Spain with a million-dollar fine for the illegal wells of Doñana

The Doñana crisis worsens. The bill that PP and Vox have promoted in the Andalusian Parliament to regularize some 800 hectares of illegal irrigation...

Brussels insists that it will demand the protection of Doñana

The European Commission insisted this Thursday that it can require Spain "if necessary" to protect the Doñana National Park and recalled that there is...