Climate Change
Navarre firefighters are trying to quell a forest fire in Urraulgoiti
The fire broke out on Saturday afternoon in a wooded area of Urraulgoiti. Emergency services have deployed a special device.
Pedro Sánchez opens the political course today with a meeting focused on climate change
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.
Dozens of forest firefighters have gathered before the courts of Castile and Leon to demand the resignations of Mañueco and Quiñones
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.
New evacuations in Castile and Leon and Asturias, while in Galicia the situation is improving
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.
The heat will have "catastrophic consequences" for workers in the future, the WHO has warned
According to a recent report, 2.4 billion people may be exposed to extreme temperatures while working.
This is how the ACV and Navarre firefighters contribute to the extinction of forest fires in Spain
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.
One firefighter has died and another has been injured in a fire in Leon
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).
Sanchez proposes a "grand pact of state" to respond to the climate emergency
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.
Sanchez proposes "a grand state pact" to address the climate emergency
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.
The fire is burning Spain with more than a dozen forest fires
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).
They found the body of a scientist who disappeared 66 years ago in Antarctica
They have managed to stabilize the great fire in the Corbieres Massif in the south of France
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.
The fire in the south of France "no longer progresses," but is not yet under control
The fire that broke out on Tuesday in the Corbieres Massif is the largest in the French state since 1949, with more than 16,000 hectares burned. The prefect of the department of Aude, Christian Pouget, has warned that it remains to be seen how many of these hectares are agricultural land.
Portuguese carabela is causing incidents on the beaches of the Basque Country
They have been intercepted in the Zurriola and La Concha of San Sebastián, and in Bizkaia on the beach of Bakio. These animals usually reach the shore by sea currents and wind, and sometimes their bites can be dangerous.
They found Portuguese carabelas on seven beaches in Bizkaia
On Saturday afternoon it was necessary to ban bathing on the beach of La Zurriola, since the "many bites" caused by the Portuguese carabelas, some of them quite serious, were counted.
