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Record sea temperature in Spain in 2022: 1.4 ºC more than normal in the...

The surface temperature of sea water in areas surrounding Spain reached a record in 2022 since data for this category was available (1940), as...

Hugo Morán: "The PP and Vox plan to legalize irrigation in Doñana is an...

The Secretary of State for the Environment, Hugo Morán, is very critical of the bill promoted (and approved) by the PP and Vox in...

They discover three species of glow worms that resemble the 'fire demons' of Japan

A group of researchers from the University of Nagoya (Japan) has discovered, studied and described three new species of marine worms of the genus...

The Noa storm returns spring weather to Spain after several days of veranillo

The summer of recent days, with heat more typical of June than of the first days of April, will give a truce this Wednesday...

Why don't large breed dogs live as long as smaller breeds?

A rare scientific study on animal health explains for the first time why larger dogs have a shorter life expectancy than smaller dogs: Selective...

Doñana is "in critical condition" as "more than half of its lagoons" disappear, warns...

The director of the Doñana-CSIC Biological Station, Eloy Revilla, pointed out this Monday at the extraordinary plenary session of the Doñana participation council held...

Goodbye to good weather: a cold front will cause a marked thermal slump starting...

Goodbye to the good weather of the last few days. After an Easter week with hardly any rain and with high temperatures for the...

They rescue by helicopter the dog of some hikers lost in the Pyrenees

The Huesca Civil Guard has carried out a total of 16 rescues in the Huesca Pyrenees during the last days of Easter 2023, between...

The wasp beetle, a new invasive insect of Asian origin that threatens mulberry trees

The list of invasive insects from Southeast Asia continues to grow. In Catalonia, one of the recent additions is the species with the scientific...

A scientist decides to stay 100 days underwater to find out the effects on...

Some call him 'Aquaman', but his name is actually Joseph Dituri. An associate professor at the University of South Florida (USF), United States, who...

March was the second hottest globally on record

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) has confirmed in its latest bulletin that the month of March 2023 has been the second hottest on...

Air pollution increases the risk of dementia: 51 studies confirm it

Air pollution, and especially that caused by combustion vehicles, has been associated in recent years with various diseases and increased mortality. In some recent...

What relationship does the full moon have with Easter and why do they coincide?

Every year, at Easter we can observe a full moon or full moon, one of the four lunar phases that occurs when our planet...

Saving Sumatran elephants and protecting the population: this is how these GPS collars work

There are fewer and fewer Sumatran elephants left, a subspecies of Asian elephant that lives in the lowlands and hills of this Indonesian island....

Pink Moon 2023: When and from what time will the full moon of April...

In April, one of the most anticipated moments for astronomy lovers and fans arrives: the first full moon of spring and the fourth so...

They discover that two species of New Guinea birds are extremely poisonous

The Schlegel's Whistler (bird with the scientific name Pachycephala schlegelii) was discovered to science in 1871 while the Rufous-naped Whistler (Aleadryas rufinucha) was discovered...

Emissions of several chemicals that destroy the ozone layer are increasing

New international research by scientists from the UK, US, Switzerland, Australia and Germany has revealed that global emissions of several banned ozone-depleting chemicals are...

The golden jackal reaches the Iberian Peninsula for the first time since records have...

A surprising discovery has taken place in Álava. The Public Entity Euskal Irrati Telebista-Radio Televisión Vasca has been commissioned to report on the presence...

Holy Week will be marked by thermal contrasts: cold nights, warm days and little...

The Holy Week that has just begun will be marked by a roller coaster of thermal contrasts, although in general stable weather will predominate...

The oldest orca in the world in captivity will be released after 50 years

Free Tokitae! With this premise, the owners of the Miami Seaquarium, where the world's oldest orca lives in captivity, have announced that they will...

Waiting for the 'miracle' of the rain: what has to happen to overcome the...

The drought that affects (especially) the internal basins of Catalonia (basically, the regions of Barcelona and Girona) is reaching historical records, for example, in...

Teresa Jordà "We need the pact to also face the droughts of the future"

Teresa Jordà, Minister of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda, points to the PSC as responsible for the failure of the parties' water summit...

'Jurassic Park' Fixed: Tyrannosaurus Rex Had Lizard-Like Lips That Covered Teeth

Many of the graphic representations created in recent years to portray the supposed image of predatory dinosaurs such as the Tyrannosaurus rex (Tyrannosaurus rex),...

Dictionary of the 20 keywords of drought in Catalonia

The political parties of the parliamentary arc meet this Friday to decide what new solutions must be provided to deal with the drought in...

Climate activists drop red paint on one of the lions of Congress

A group of climate activists has thrown red paint on the façade and one of the lions at the main entrance of the Congress...

More pressure against the drought decree: some municipalities ask to fill swimming pools in...

The Associació de Municipis de l'Arc Metropolità has asked the Generalitat to authorize town halls to be able to fill public swimming pools this...

An amateur finds a huge gold nugget in Australia valued at almost 150,000 euros

Darren Kamp, owner of the Lucky Strike Gold prospecting shop, had never seen anything like it in his 43-year career. A huge gold nugget...

Spectacular lightning strikes in Brazil: one on the head of Christ the Redeemer and...

Spectacular and interesting from a scientific point of view. They are images of lightning and lightning rods in Brazil that are going around the...

Commercial marine mining can cause irreversible damage to the planet

Deep-sea mining for rare minerals could be more damaging than previously thought. This has been confirmed by the investigation carried out by a group...

The EU definitively prohibits selling cars that emit CO2 from 2035

The European Union has definitively approved this Tuesday the law that prohibits the sale of newly registered cars and vans that emit CO2. The...

The amazing images of the “unusually bright” southern lights in New Zealand

It is not easy to observe an aurora, a phenomenon in the form of luminescence that occurs when charged particles from the Sun collide...

The death of corals and mussels: scientific keys to face the acidification of the...

Climate change has several consequences on seas and oceans. The best known and, in part, feared, is the rise in sea level as a...

Little rain and more heat than normal: this is the weather forecast for Easter

Mild weather will accompany Holy Week in 2023. According to a first forecast from the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet), during holidays and rest days...

The surprising discovery of a goblin shark in the Mediterranean that could be a...

A team made up of 40 researchers, participants in the project to study sharks and rays in the waters of Montenegro, signed a scientific...

Earth Hour is back: blackout of lights and kilometers in defense of the climate...

Cities and towns, buildings, entities, companies and individuals from practically the entire world (more than 190 countries, according to the organizers) participate on Saturday,...

California alleviates its drought thanks to heavy rains: this is how its landscape has...

California is recovering from the strong storms that have hit the state until this past Wednesday and which left five dead and several injured....

This is what the giant and strange spider discovered in Australia looks like

A strange and giant new species of spider, an arthropod they have named Euoplos dignitas, has been identified in the Brigalow Belt, a wide...

'Manifesto of the Liberators': new impulse of the Libera Project in the fight against...

Increase the number of people who fight against garbage (garbage in nature) and socially recognize the work of the members of this network of...

77% of diesel has "suspicious" levels of nitrogen oxide

At least 77% of tests carried out on diesel vehicles in Europe have "suspicious" levels of nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, indicating the "probable use"...

This endangered turtle surprises by becoming the father of three young at the age...

Mr. Pickles is the oldest animal at the Houston Zoo (Texas). This tortoise, originally from Madagascar, is 90 years old, but his advanced age...