Climate Change

Agricultural associations and trade unions, among others, want the ACV to be declared a drought zone and special measures to be taken. The meeting will take place at 4 p.m. at the headquarters of the Basque Government in Vitoria-Gasteiz. 

Education is already piloting four schools in Bizkaia: the CEIP Bagatza in Barakaldo, the IES Luis Briñas-Santutxu in Bilbao, the IPI Pagasarribide in Bilbao and the CEIP Indautxu in Bilbao.

The lack of rain and successive heat waves reduce the flow of rivers and affect agriculture, transportation and water supply.

The spokesman for the agricultural union, Xabier Iraola, has detailed that there are about 5,000 farms in Álava, Bizkaia and Gipuzkoa outside the public water supply network, which are increasingly suffering from water shortages due to summer droughts.

On our way from the Pyrenees to the Bardenas, we've been with Transhumante Pastor Enrique Ballen, who's going to guide a herd of 1,800 heads in search of fodder, because because of the contradictions of climate change, there's more to eat in the desert than in the high mountains.

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Ajangiz, Arratzu, Bermeo, Busturia, Ea, Elantxobe, Gernika-Lumo, Forua, Gautegiz-Arteaga, Ibarrangelu, Kortezubi, Mendata, Mundaka, Murueta, Muxika, Sukarrieta, Ispaster, Berriatua, Etxebarria, Markina-Xemein and Ondarroa are the populations affected by water shortages.

The Copernicus Climate Change Service said the situation "increases the risk of extreme rainfall and flooding."

The heat will not rest, at least, until tomorrow evening. Throughout the ACV there will be a red alarm on the inside and orange on the coast. In Navarre, too, they will be on orange notice all day tomorrow.

One in four World Cup football matches in 2026 could be in dangerous heat. A scientific study warns of the risks to players and fans in the tournament to be organized by the United States, Mexico and Canada.

According to the "Climate State in Europe 2025" report by the Copernicus service, glaciers lost ice mass, burned more hectares than ever, and the surface temperature of the A0S was the warmest in history.

Researchers have reconstructed four decades of ocean change, and for the first time they have been able to confirm through direct observations that global warming is disrupting the currents of the Southern Ocean in a worrying way . These changes affect the ability of oceans to regulate carbon and heat across the planet. 

Ocean warming is not uniform, and the hottest areas are tropical and South Atlantic, North Pacific and Southern Ocean, according to a study by 31 organizations and more than 50 scientists around the world.

In the worst-case scenario, sea levels could rise by 0.72 metres by 2100, which will directly affect 32% of the Basque population (more than 700,000 people) of the river valleys on the coast or near the mouth, and the Basque Government has therefore initially approved the Territorial Sectoral Plan for the Protection and Management of the Coast (PTS).

Organized by the Maritime Surveillance Network, the collection took place last Saturday, within the framework of the European Waste Prevention Programme.

The countries meeting at the UN Climate Summit (COP30) this Saturday unanimously adopted the final document, which does not specifically mention fossil fuels, and called for increasing the ambition of actions to combat global warming.

In Belem, protesters have managed to penetrate the COP30 blue zone managed by the United Nations. They have protested against oil farms in the Amazon and demanded higher environmental taxes for millionaires.

World temperatures surpassed the 1.5 degree rise barrier in 2024 for the first time, and this is the first climate summit since then. The COP30 summit in the Brazilian Amazon will take place from 10 to 21 November.

A Greenpeace activist has crossed a 30-metre-high ribbon in downtown Madrid along with a banner reading "Planet in Thread," the aim of which was to call for "climate justice" at the gates of the Climate Summit (COP30) that begins today in Brazil.

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