Climate Change

The summer is getting warmer and longer in the Basque Country, according to data published by EITB Data. In Bilbao and similar cities, extreme temperatures have been recorded. Cities around the world are adapting to improve the passage of warming. The main recommendation of urban planners is to introduce nature into cities.

The temperature in the Cantabrian Sea has been rising for decades, and we are beginning to notice its effects.

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Negationism has little room; only 1.6% of the Basque population denies climate change, but there is also a certain climate of pessimism on this issue, and 21% of the population believe that there is no solution.

On the street it is often heard that the current summer seasons are warmer than before. The data confirm this too. The average temperature of that time has risen in the 21st century and, looking at the 20th century, the difference is noticeable. 

Of the 523 municipalities in Hego Euskal Herria, 33 have recorded temperatures of 40 degrees in one or more days this summer. The highest registration has been 43.5 ° C, and has been recorded in Bilbao and its surrounding regions, Txorierri and Uribe-Costa. 

Air and ground firefighters are still working to refresh the ground.

The fire broke out on Saturday afternoon in a wooded area of Urraulgoiti. Emergency services have deployed a special device.

The event, which will take place at noon at the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge, aims to promote an agreement to provide a coordinated and sustainable response to fires, warming and other challenges arising from climate change.

Under the slogan 'Bad management. Quiñones resignation!' (Bad management. Quiñones resignation!), hundreds of people have called for the resignation of the Chairman of the Junta de Castilla y León, the Environmental Adviser and the Director General of Natural Heritage and Forestry Policy.

Since the beginning of the summer fire wave, some 34,000 people have been evicted and 413,992 hectares have been burned in 268 fires, and 48 people have been arrested for their alleged involvement.

According to a recent report, 2.4 billion people may be exposed to extreme temperatures while working.

A total of 58 firefighters from the Basque Autonomous Community (CAV) have travelled to Castilla y León to assist in the control of forest fires following the Board's request for assistance to the Basque Government, while 24 professionals from Navarra have travelled to Asturias.

Thus, four people have already died as a result of the fires on the Iberian peninsula, three of them in the province of León, where the fourth victim died on Tuesday from burns in Tres Cantos (Madrid).

The Spanish President has made this appeal during a visit to Galicia in response to the latest fires and has ensured that 'the necessary means' will be put in place to surround the active fires in the area.

The President of the Spanish Government has made this appeal in response to the latest fires during his trip to Galicia and has ensured that 'the necessary means' will be put in place to surround the active fires in the area.

Most of the fires have originated in Castilla y León (more than 5,000 people are out of their homes) and Ourense (Galicia), but there have also been major fires in Tres Cantos (Madrid), Navalmoralejo (Toledo) and Tarifa (Cadiz).

The fire, which broke out last Tuesday and killed one person, a woman who refused to leave her home under siege by flames, is the most serious that France has suffered since 1949.