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Something strange is happening this year in the Svalbard archipelago

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February of this year, 2025, it is full winter, but some areas in the Svalbard archipelago do not seem to be aware: melted ice and green sprouts peeling among the rocks attract the attention of a group of scientists who work in these Norwegian islands in the middle of the Arctic polar circle. Something does not fit. A February too warm. The Researchers Team I recently caught attention About this fact, and did Through an article Posted in the magazine Nature Communications. In this piece it is pointed out that, for several days in February 2025, the temperatures recorded in this area exceeded 0º Celsius, the water freezing temperature. An archipelago in the eye of the hurricane. The increase in temperatures that we associate with climate change is not a uniform phenomenon: while some areas of the globe They coolabout hundreds of kilometers others are heated much faster than average. This is the case of the Svalbard archipelago. This set of islands belongs to Norway and is located in the middle of the Arctic Circle. The Svalbard archipelago is the place where we can find the most northern civil settlement on the planet, NY-work. From white to green. The exceptional warming in these islands was apparent to the team beyond the measurements captured by the thermometers. The snow in the area had backed away not only huge puddles of liquid water, but also suggesting the rock surface of the islands and the tundra’s own vegetation in summer. “Being on water swimming pools at the tip of the glacier on green, naked, was shocking and surreal,” described in a press release James Bradley. “The thick layer of snow that covered the landscape vanished in days. The team I wore felt like a relic of another climate.” Rain, no snow. These changes made almost impossible for the team to perform their work. First because its goal was to collect snow samples that rushed in this polar environment. In Words by researcher Laura Molares Moncayo“The objective of our field work campaign was to study newly fallen snow. But for a period of two weeks, we were only able to collect newly fallen snow once, since most of the precipitation fell in the form of rain.” The change also involved added difficulties, including more risks derived from the activity. The thaw hindered vehicles transit, making access to certain areas difficult, but also making the task of returning to the camp more complicated in the face of unexpected dangers, dangers that include, for example, the encounter with polar bears. Feedback According to the team, the implications of these changes can be very relevant beyond the difficulties involved for scientists working in the environment. According to the team itselfwarm events such as that registered in February can affect many different systems, “from the microbial carbon cycle to the survival of the Arctic Fauna.” In case it was not enough, these events can also generate a loop: by melting permafrost, soil that remains frozen all year, greenhouse gases are released that in turn aggravate heating. In Xataka | What is global warming, what are its causes and how we are trying to fight it Image | Bradley, Molares Moncayo, et al. (2025), Nature Communications

“I have created more billionaires in my management team than any other CEO in the world”

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Jensen Huang is In the epicenter of one of the industries with the greatest Growth potential in which some are managed dizzy investment figures. That flow of money, also permeates higher wages, especially in those strategic positions such as It has shown well Mark Zuckerberg with his last rounds of signing of talent. Within the framework of a round of interviews with AI as a central axis, the CEO of Nvidia has presumed how well paid its closest collaborators. So Huang does not fear that his competition comes to steal his best talent. “They are very good. You don’t have to feel sorry for anyone in my management team,” Huang said. The Nvidia billionaire club. In a thematic days about organized AI by all-in podcastJensen Huang answered a question of moderators about the recent signings and millionaire hiring between AI specialists: “I have created more billionaires in my management team than any other executive director of the world.” Under the stock market results From the company, this statement is absolutely true since a good part of the remuneration of Nvidia’s responsibility positions have a package of actions linked to their position, and the rest of the company’s employees can take advantage of the Share purchase plan for employees (ESPP for the acronym in English of Employee Stock Purchase Plan). Through these plans, much of its template has become a millionaire. Working in the most profitable company has advantages. The price of Nvidia’s shares have not stopped growing in recent years, so any employee who had invested a minimum initial capital, would have increased substantially. According to published data by Fortunesince 2019, the company has increased 3,776% in the price of its shares, with a 170% rise in the last year. With a heritage valued at about 151,000 million dollars, Huang has made Nvid Become Millionaires. Small and well paid teams. Nvidia is one of the companies with Greater profitability by employee. That is, it is able to generate huge benefits with a relatively reduced template. Huang ensures that this is the formula for success in AI investigation. “Some 150 researchers in AI, with sufficient financing, can probably create an OpenAi. There is something elegant in small teams,” said the CEO of Nvidia. Huang said that this approach not only maximizes the performance of the teams, but also facilitates to make its “extraordinarily rich” members if they reach the expected success, putting as an example the OpenAI researchers or to the development team of Deepseek. Nothing moves in Nvidia without knowing Huang. Another feature of Huang’s leadership is that CEO knows everything that happens in your company thanks to a peculiar system Email -based that allows him to be aware of what he does or worries to the last employee of the company. This proximity allows Huang to affirm that it personally supervises “the compensation of all employees until today … and always increases the company’s expense on operational expenses.” According to Huang, there is a reason for weight to take care of your employees, “if you take care of people, everything else takes care of themselves.” The CEO has declared a joke: “Yes, I carry Stock Options In the pocket right now. “ Nvidia’s “gold wives”. However, these economic incentives of Nvidia are associated with a Extreme labor demandwhich implies eternal days seven days a week. Despite this intensity, Nvidia has registered a personnel rotation index below the average of its peers. According to his 2024 sustainability reportin that year it was only 2.7%, compared to the 17.7% that the semiconductor industry records on average. Bloomberg defined This phenomenon has been described as “gold wives” for those employees and managers who access these actions packages. In Xataka | Jensen Huang hates individual meetings with his team. There is only one exception: “If you ask me, I will leave everything” Image |Nvidia

A deep warehouse that will save waste until 2100

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A few weeks ago, more than 1,800 nuclear waste drivers They began to emerge of the seabed on the Galician coast. The image, as real as symbolic, reopened an old debate: what do we do with the remains of an era that goes out, but does not disappear? While Galicia demands answers and surveillance, another nuclear issue advances without noise, although equally urgent: the fate of the waste that will leave the centrals when they close from 2027. Nuclear energy is out of exit. The problem is that their waste does not know how to leave. A provisional container. The Nuclear Safety Council (CSN) has given the approval, with its conditions, to the design of the Hi-Storm FW container version G. According to the official CSN press releaseEnresa, the public company in charge of managing radioactive waste, has requested this container that will serve to temporarily store the spent Almaraz fuel, Ascó, chest and vandellós II. It is not a definitive solution, but necessary: each unit can contain up to 37 fuel elements of pressure water reactors (PWR) or 89 of boiling water (BWR), and its role will be key during the works of dismantling between 2027 and 2035. Nuclear energy turns off, but their waste needs a place – sure – while the country decides how to bury them forever. More in depth. This movement is part of something much bigger. According to The economist has detailedEnresa has officially reactivated the deep geological warehouse project (AGP), after almost three decades paralyzed. The first phase has already been awarded to the specialized consultant Amphos 21. AGP is, in simple terms, an underground nuclear cemetery. As We have explained in Xatakathe objective is to isolate waste in stable geological formations for thousands – or hundreds of thousands – of years, combining natural barriers with artificial confinement technology. According to Enresathe calendar extends until 2100, and the project is divided into eight stages that cover from initial scientific studies to the construction and eventual sealed. In early stages. Right now it is in phase one: collecting technologies, reviewing technical documentation and preparing the legislative framework that will be defined between 2026 and 2028, According to the economist. From 2029, possible locations will be selected, which will be evaluated in depth until 2039. The construction of the underground laboratory and the technical and environmental licensing process will cover up to 2059. The AGP will be operational by 2073, and will work up to 2100, when its definitive seal is expected. All this is inspired by a specific model: onkalo, The first European AGP in Europein Finland. The project is excavated more than 400 meters deep and is designed to store waste for 100,000 years, where a century will remain open and will then be sealed irreversibly. The electric, uncomfortable with the deadlines. But not everyone is satisfied with the calendar. As we already detail in XatakaEndesa, Iberdrola, Naturgy and EDP, owners of the reactors, have asked the government to advance the implementation of the AGP to 2050. The reason: they want to release the land from the centrals before and allocate them to new industrial uses. In parallel, they have resorted to the Supreme Court the rise of the “Enresa Rate”, which finances nuclear dismantling, considering it an unforeseen and unjustified extra cost. Business pressure puts a background debate on the table: Who should assume the real cost of nuclear energy once it stops producing electricity? And meanwhile? After the failure of the centralized warehouse project in Villar de Cañas (Cuenca), which He was discarded by the new general radioactive waste plan. Spain has opted for a decentralized network of Silos, one by central. However, there is a problem because these stores were not designed for more than 50 years. Therefore, initiatives such as the Hi-Storm FW container are crucial: they allow to strengthen the safety of intermediate storage and gain time while the AGP becomes a reality. And is it the only possible way? Ultimately, the best nuclear residue is the one that is not generated. Here We have talked about technologies such as nuclear fusioneven in an experimental phase, they do not generate hazardous waste. Even within the fission, there are improvement margins: molten or thorium salts reactors would allow fuel to better take better advantage and generate shorter radioactive life. But as long as those options are not profitable, the AGPs remain the only viable viable route. A long -term challenge. Spain has decided to close its nuclear stage, but the waste does not go out with the reactor. The country faces a technical, environmental and moral responsibility that will accompany us for generations. The approval of the Hi-Storm FW container and the AGP reactivation are only the beginning of a long-term race that will be played underground. And in a world that changes every decade, few decisions require thinking of deadlines of 100,000 years. The legacy of nuclear energy forces us, for the first time, to plan as if we were going to be here forever. Image | Unspash Xataka | After confirming the closure of its nuclear power plants, Spain seeks where to build a radioactive waste cemetery

that most of his smartphones come from India

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The worldwide technology panorama has taken a spectacular turnaround. And for the first time in history, India has destroyed China as the main smartphones provider to the United States. According to the firm figures Canalysin the second quarter of the year, the phones manufactured in India represented 44% of American imports of these devices, compared to the low 13% of the same period of 2024. China, which until just one year ago dominated with 61% quota, has collapsed up to 25%. Tariffs make a dent. The tariff climb between the United States and China has forced a total reconfiguration of technological supply chains. The US government imposed in April tariffs up to 145% To Chinese products. However, as of May, both countries They reached an agreementreducing 30% tariffs and with 90 -day moratorium. The extreme tariff policy of the Trump administration has especially affected companies such as Apple, also pressing the company led by Tim Cook so that Produce iPhone in US territory. This is something that experts consider practically impossible without shooting prices. Change of strategy. After the unpredictable policy of tariff changes, Apple has been forced to Move your production to India. The Cupertino company began shyly in 2017 by manufacturing the iPhone se In Indian soil, but now plans to assemble all iPhone for the US market in India before the end of 2026. According to IDC dataApple produced between 40 and 43 million iPhone in India last year, of which some 30 million were exported. To meet US demand, which exceeds 60 million units annually, will need to increase its Indian production to 80-85 million devices. India has a great challenge ahead. The transition is not being simple. Manufacturing efficiency rates in India are still lower than those of China. In 2023, the Tata factory in Hosur, which produces iPhone housings, had a success rate of just 50%, with half of the components failing Apple’s strict quality controls. “There is simply no sense of urgency,” confessed An ancient Apple engineer at the Financial Times about operations in India. The expansion planned for 2025-2026 will be the definitive proof of whether this situation has improved. China’s experience. While the United States seeks to reduce its dependence on China, India You need Chinese engineers and workers To establish the production lines. “You need China’s experience,” explains Navkendar Singh, associate vice president of IDC in India. In addition, the components of greater technological value continue to be manufactured in China, and the most advanced processors continue to occur In TSMC plants In Taiwan. Apple may have solved its tariff problem, but not your problem with China. And now what. The next step will be to check if other brands such as Samsung and Motorola, which are also moving production to India although on a smaller scale, can follow Apple’s rhythm. Vietnam maintains 30% of exports From smartphones to the US, also surpassing China. For India, the challenge is to demonstrate that it can maintain the necessary quality and efficiency to become the new nerve center of world technological production. In Xataka | Apple has discovered gunpowder with the 16E iPhone. So he has launched the machinery to replicate his success, according to Gurman

Madrid’s plan to resurrect a road that has been dead for more than twenty years

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Madrid has a ghost highway. It is not that it appears and disappears, it is always present. Nor is it that ghosts pass through her. We don’t know that. What is certain is that cars do not happen. If the few neighbors who want to take a walk through a 12 -kilometer asphalt block that does not lead anywhere. Almost 20 years later they want to finish it. Paralyzed. 2005. Alcalá de Henares (Madrid). The works of the MP-203 begin. The goal is to decongest the A-2 highway at its entrance to Madrid. The intention is to offer an alternative route to those who, at the outset, go further south. Start in the A-2 as it passes through Alcalá de Henares, destiny the A-3 as it passes through Vallecas. Two years later, the works were abandoned. Cintra, the concessionary company with the right to exploitation for the next 30 years after disbursement of more than 100 million euros stopped the works. From the Government of the Community of Madrid (PP), they said, first, that the efforts with the Government (then PSOE) had squandered the project. Subsequently, with the PP governing in Spain, the problem seemed to be in the relationship with Adif, on the occasion of a passage under the high speed Madrid-Barcelona. Cintra said the ball was on the roof of the regional government. All chaos can be reviewed in this article The country 2013. The Ghost Highway. By then, the road had been paralyzed for six years, without moving even one more meter from there where Cintra, 70 million euros spent, had left it. The residents of Alcalá de Henares did not know that in 2025 they were still going to have 12.5 kilometers paved from a highway anywhere. Because the beginning and end of the highway is the same: sand. Since the project was launched 20 years ago, the highway remains in the same state. Only the pedestrians who venture to take a walk through an environment of postpocalyptic reminiscences are passed. The MP-203 did not enjoy the global rescue that received the Spanish toll roads mediated the next decade. Now yes? 20 years after the works began. 18 years after his abandonment. The Community of Madrid has included in its Regional Road Plan for the 2025-2032 period the intention of carrying out the MP-203 spoiled project. The information brings it 20 minuteswho point out that the initial plan goes to begin the works in 2026 and have the road ended in 2028. To launch the project again, the Community of Madrid estimates that 58.5 million euros will be necessary. This figure would be added to the 70 million paid to Ferrovial (last responsible for the works) for compensation for not having finished the works at the time after the company made the initial investment. The changes? The most obvious: cars will circulate. Or, at least, they will not do it illegally as those who dispute the victory in the races that are organized there. Nor will the specialists who, this time legally, star in the filming that are consent there. In addition, the road is no longer faced as a toll road. The intention is that the link is completely free. Of course, in order to get to fruition, the final plan must be approved before the end of the year. If we get ahead, the road will end two decades after planning. Photo | Google Maps In Xataka | Spanish roads have a serious maintenance problem and the construction companies a solution: that you pay it

To start, something that did not do in 50 years

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This year’s San Diego comic-with has been less striking than that of previous others. After the Marvel Holocaust with the Announcement of the return of Robert Downey Jr.in 2025 there has been neither Marvel, nor Disney, nor almost DC. So the attention has been monitored without problems George Lucas, which has spoken on the last day of the Convention of his collection of 40,000 comics and related articles at home and that he has finally found a way to use them. George Lucas in the house. Yes, George Lucas had never attended the convention in the more than half a century of life of the Comic-Con de San Diego. And no, he did not mention ‘Star Wars’ or ‘Indiana Jones’ at any time, franchises to which Lucas is already linked only pecuniary. Lucas approached the Hall H of the San Diego Convention Center to talk about his comics collection: 40,000 copies that he has decided that he will share with the world. A comic museum. To do this, he announced the Foundation of Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which will open its doors in Los Angeles in 2026. In this presentation they accompanied the director and screenwriter Guillermo del Toro, the production designer of the prequels of ‘Star Wars’, Doug Chiang, and Queen Latifah as a moderator. The museum, which will direct Lucas in the company of his wife Mellody Hobson (with Del Toro participating in the Board of Directors), will include tens of thousands of works that the filmmaker has collected for decades, since he was at the University. Hit Nazis. During the presentation, attendees praised the ninth art in very different ways. Lucas described the “Temple for Popular Art” museum. Chiang said that “when I was a child, the art of the comic did not take seriously. They always told me: ‘Doug, one day it will happen to you.’ And I am very happy that it would not happen.” And Del Toro remembered comics as a propaganda piece advanced to other media: “The comics were the first to hit the Nazis“He said, remembering that they were made before films. Nothing ordinary people. Among the originals that will house the museum are works by authors as prominent as Charles M. Schulz, Jack Kirby, Norman Rockwell, Jessie Willcox Smith, Beatrix Potter or Frida Kahlo. With the museum, these pieces will finally find a place to be exposed, since Lucas refuses to sell them. The museum will also include part of Lucas’s archive linked to his films, with models, props, conceptual art and costumes. Since 2016. The museum has finally found its site in Los Angeles, but the project has been lying down for a while. In 2016, it was planned to be built in Chicago, near Lake Michigan. But an organization of the city, Friends of the Parks, filed a demand for Lucas for construction on private land, so they decided to transfer the project to Los Angeles. In Xataka | Before selling ‘Star Wars’, George Lucas imagined a megalómana series: 10 times more expensive than a saga movie

When a laptop’s battery began to smoke, an plane had to be evacuated. The problem is that it is no longer an isolated case

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Airlines fear the flammable potential of devices Like Power Banks Or large laptops, and therefore establish capacity limits in batteries that can go on board in cab. A good example of the situations that seek to avoid we have had on an American Airlines flight, where a bag containing a laptop He started to smoke. What happened. While the shipment was carried out at the San Francisco International Airport (SFO) of flight 2045 to Miami, there was a small stampery with shouts like “fire in the rear.” The deceased was the smoke that came out of the bag of a passenger. The crew acted quickly, starting the evacuation of the aircraft and taking out the bag. What was done. The airline workers instructed passengers to leave the plane in order. However, as can be seen in a Video recorded insidethe hall became a chaos where passengers ignored one of the requests: leave bags, suitcases and other belongings in the cabin and go out empty. Some passengers left the plane with bags along the ramps, without following the rules. The evacuation ended without damage to the plane, but with three minor injuries. According to firefighters From the San Francisco Fire Department (SFFD), which confirmed that a laptop was the cause of smoke, the problem was born in its battery, without offering more details. Although before they arrived, smoke had already extinguished, firefighters introduced the equipment into a container with water to prevent future problems. What do protocols say. The European Air Security Agency (AESA) Establish clearly What to do as a passenger in an evacuation situation: Listen: Follow each and every one of the instructions on the cabin crew. Leaving luggage: “Trying to take your belongings will not only hinder you, but will also endanger other passengers. Luggage could hinder the exit and cause damage to the evacuation equipment” In the United States, process priorities They are exactly the same: follow the crew instruction and leave belongings behind. The objective is always that any aircraft is safely emptied in 90 seconds. A growing problem. Although since 2016 the lithium -ion batteries are prohibited in the wineries of the airplanes, the number of incidents related to them has shot themselves, either by smoke, fire or extreme warming. The Federal American Aviation Administration (FAA) carries A count And the figures are fully fired: between 2006 and 2016 there were 120 incidents. Between 2017 and May 2025, 377. More than triple cases, and in less years. The majority of incidents occur in commercial airplanes: 385 cases of 119 of transport aircraft. We have analyzed express mentions on fire in the descriptions provided by FAA, and there are 201 cases: 47 from 2006 to 2015, and 144 from 2016 to May 2025. And its solution during the flight. FAA incident records are also useful in another sense: they indicate how the crew mitigates the problems in full flight. The great key are “Thermal containment bags” as is from AvsaxThey are igniphed containers capable of sealing a device and preventing major disasters. In many cases, the crew chose to introduce the problematic device in water before moving to the protective bag. Airlines are taking measures, and for example Southwest Airlines already forces passengers who use Powerbanks to that they have them in sight while carrying. Why the batteries burn. If the question is why they explode, the answer is in a phenomenon, “Thermal leakage“: Overheating due to a heat production process that is self -demand, which ends up causing overpressure explosion. If the anode does not correct the cathode, there is heating, which leads to additional exothermic reactions, which overcome the chemical system and shape oxygen bubbles, CO2 and other gases. With luck, the reaction does not pass from smoke, but it is the precedent of something worse: fire. Why not everyone burn. Because of its characteristics, the batteries They occur following rigorous security plans. But nothing prevents batteries of worse quality or defective, such as Samsung confirmed for the Galaxy Note 7. There is also an additional factor that no longer depends on manufacturers: mechanical blows such as high -height falls, which can deform the battery and make different parts of it touch, which would cause a short circuit and contribute to heating. Images | Erik McLean and Phil Deforges In UNSPLASH, Antonio Sabán with Ia In Xataka | The GPS has become the Achilles heel of modern aviation. And engineering already has its substitute ready

Sell tickets a year earlier

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It is inevitable: each new premiere of a film directed by Christopher Nolan is more than the essential cinephile event of the year. It is a cultural event. And so It will happen again with ‘The Odyssey’the epic adventure film inspired by Homer’s classic stories and that a year before its premiere has managed to raise an expectation never seen before. Everything is part of a carefully drawn plan. Odysseus & co. The only announcement of ‘The Odyssey’ already put expectations in the clouds: Christopher Nolan, the director technologically more advanced of the momentwill adapt a very classic adventure, a founding story of epic stories, and whose footprint in world culture is unbarkable. I was going to decorate it with a cast, as always in his cinema, of consecrated stars (Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Jon Bernthal …). Produce Universal againwith whom he already worked at the Oscarizadísima ‘Oppenheimer‘And the premiere is scheduled for July 17, 2026. A year earlier. To stand this strategy, Universal put tickets on July 17, a year before the premiere of the film already knowing that Nolan’s name is more than enough to sell ‘The Odyssey’, without the need for trailers. They are the passes for the first weekend, in the Exclusive 70 mm IMAX formatthe preferred by Nolan. The tickets sold out in a single day and, of course, it did not take long unleash speculative feverwith resale of up to 200 pounds in London (a phenomenon that Nolan already knows: It happened with ‘Oppenheimer’). A bold bet. The typical marketing of the great productions, especially those of the expected summer premieres, usually starts from 4 to 6 months before the premiere. Nolan has skipped the norm bending that period of time and in a format that also knows that it is exclusive (in Spain, for example, There are no cinemas that project in this format). 95% of the tickets sold out in minutes, generating 1.5 million dollars of benefits… before the film has finished its production. IMAX, the future. A few days ago, BBC linked success From this universal marketing operation to the previous success of a Warner movie, Ryan Cogler’s vampiric adventures’The sinners‘. The director expressed on numerous occasions your love for the IMAX format And the film became a success in that format. According to BBC, this semi-lain success could have encouraged Universal for this early sale, relying on support without palliative that Nolan has always made the format. An excellent Timing To claim the formats in the room, now that it is clear that the recovery of pre-pandemic box office figures It may never come. Nolan, for elites. Nolan is still a RARE Av Inside the cinema. You can afford to make the movies you want: Science fiction would be With Kubrickian left to continue his trilogy about Batman, and after that, more twisted science fiction and a biopic without fantastic elementsand then refer to this new classical epic epic. And they will always be successes. But if other directors dared to experiment with their same approaches, tones and topics, possibly the box office would not accompany them, Seeing public preferences. Nolan is an isolated phenomenon, and that is why the following steps of the industry so that the public goes back to the rooms must be extremely careful. Christopher Nolan’s eternal paradox: razes at the box office, success after success even one year in advance, but that does not mean anything. An islet in a sea of sequelae. Image | Gtres – Warner In Xataka | After fifteen years of its premiere, this classic treasures a record: the highest grossing science fiction film without being a saga

Starlink has made 144,000 maneuvers in six months to avoid collisions

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Starlink satellites executed 144,404 collision evasion maneuvers between December and May, according to SPACEX DATA LOCATED BEFORE THE FCC. That is equivalent to a maneuver every two minutes. Why is it important. Each evasion is an opportunity for human or technical error that could trigger a destructive chain reaction. Kessler syndrome – COLLISCES WASHING THAT WOULD MAKE A COMPLETE ORBITE – STARTS TO STOP SUMMARY FOR SCIENCE. The figures. Starlink has tripled its evasion maneuvers with respect to the previous period. To contextualize: Isro, the Indian Space Agencyhe has only made 122 maneuvers in 14 years. Between 2022 and 2023 he had whether Pico: 23. The context. The low land orbit has become a kind of highway. A saturated highway. Spacex has launched more than 6,000 satellitesand plan to deploy up to 42,000. Amazon, Oneweb and several countries prepare their own constellations. The democratization of space brings obvious benefits: global Internet, land observation, emergency communications. The problem is the hidden cost of orbital congestion. Between the lines. Spacex has asked for “uniform report standards” for the entire industry. Translation: We need clear play rules before someone causes a catastrophe that affects everyone. The threat. A single error can be translated into thousands of spatial garbage fragments traveling 28,000 km/h. In addition, each fragment becomes a projectile capable of destroying other satellites, which would create more fragments in a chain reaction. And now what. The industry is developing autonomous evasion systems with which They promise to reduce maneuvers up to 50%. But the real solution and long term goes through international regulation and coordination between operators. The space is immense, but not infinite. Maybe it’s time to learn to share it. In Xataka | He cheated his wife, the army and the Government of Ireland: the incredible history of the man who passed through Astronaut Outstanding image | Spacex

tourists no longer want to pay them

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“There are tourists who now ask for an orange juice and take it among five people.” The phrase He is from a hotelier of the center of Soller, in Mallorca, one of the great tourist enclaves of the island, and reflects well the situation with which the bars and restaurants of the region are being found: tourists arrive, but they do it with less bulky and less arranged portfolios and less willing to leave four euros for a coffee. Other restorers in the area regret that they are increasingly with more visitors who pull super and prepare their own food. The sector It does not hide Your concern. What happened? That Spanish tourism, a sector that has been (at least from the pandemic) getting used to news about growth, record data And upward invoices, he is giving worrying signs in one of his bastions: Mallorca. In May the employer of the hospitality industry He already warned that the first quarter of the year had been closed with a widespread revenue drop that moved between 10 and 20%. And since then the situation It does not seem to have improved. Why’s that? A quick search arrives on Google to meet news in which the hoteliers of one of the most emblematic destinations in the region, Port of Sóllerthey lament the panorama with which they are being found in the middle of summer, just when their businesses should go stern. “We have gone from not having workers to be over,” confesses to Diario de Mallorca The owner of two restaurants that has had to do without five employees. “The queues of other years are not seen anymore. The last ones I remember were in Holy Week. It does not look good and those who will be harmed will be the workers, especially since next season,” The hotelier insists. “This is a rebound effect after the madness after Covid. We will return to the situation we had before the pandemic, but with much narrower margins.” Is it the only one who thinks like that? No. eldiario.es has published A similar chroniclewith similar complaints from other businesses of the Serra de Tramuntana. One of them, for example, ensures that more than a matter of quantity, of the number of tourists who come to Sóller to enjoy their vacations, it is a problem of habits. People arrive with the most tight portfolio. And less willing to exceed expenses. “More than in the number of tourists, (there is) a change in the type of customer you consume and in the amount you consume,” says the person in charge of a bar. “The volume of people who come to Sóller continues to be the same, with more or less fluctuations every 15 days. But what has dropped is the consumption in bars. People are spending less and that shows,” Explain to the newspaper another hospitality hostess. “Now they ask you for an orange juice (6.5 euros) and take it between five.” The trend collides with a tourist profile that until not so ago was willing to pay four euros for a coffee or more than 25 for the menu of the day. But … What do the data say? Those of CAEB They draw a little flattering panorama. According to Your calculationsthe sector suffers a ‘puncture’ in its turnover between 6 and 8%, a fork that in some restaurants would rise from 15-20% or even reaches 30% in specific cases. Its president, Juan Miguel Ferrer, is blunt and esteem that in eight out of ten stores sales will fall this year. Interestingly and although the sensation can be that the city is crowded, one of the most affected areas is the center of Palma, where the fall reaches 8%. What is the problem? The hoteliers summarize it with a single word: profitability. “The situation is very difficult. We are concerned about business profitability. Many cannot survive. We had not had such a bad summer since before the pandemic,” Ferrer insists In Tourinews. The president of CAEB ensures that last year closed 370 establishments and It is cautious on what the impact can be in the coming months. “We will have to see this year.” Ferrer remember That May was marked by the bad weather, June Mo was plethoric and now the businesses are with a decrease in the influx of customers, especially in Port Soller, Sant Elme and Port D´Alcúdia. “We have gone from being full to have occupations that do not exceed 60%.” The situation is not ideal on the Paseo de Palma. Again the issue is not that there are no visitors, but that they seem less given to consume in the restaurants. “They are known as sandwich tourists”, duck. What tells us the INE? Give other brushstrokes that help compose the painting. His latest data is May, but show that during the first five months of 2025 the annual variation rate among foreign tourists It has been positive In Balearic Islands. As for the flow of travelers and overnight, in June the INE record Increases with respect to 2024. For example, 1.86 million visitors in June 2024 went to about 1.89 million this year. Another interesting fact is the prices. In June the INE registered a year -on -year variation rate of 9.9 in the hotel price index of the Balearic Islands. If we consult the IPC table the annual variation between the set of restaurants and hotels of the archipelago is 5%percentage that rises 30% If compared to 2019. In general, the summer of 2025 usually occurs as the one in The most expensive hotel priceswith 50% increases from the beginning of the pandemic. What is that fall? The apparent ‘prick’ in the billing of the Mallorcan hoteliers is not understood without handling some keys. Both internal and external. Among the last ones is The economic situation from Germany, a crucial market that does not go through its best moment, and the growing competition of other cheaper destinations. One of those who … Read more

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