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The problem is not that there is a risk of eating chicken in Spain: it is that it is going to get very expensive

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In November 2023, Luciana Gallo and her team toured Punta León, a protected natural area on the southern coast of Patagonia. “It was like walking on a battlefield,” explained in SINC. “I’ve never seen anything like it. It was truly shocking: mountains of dead birds on the beach, thousands of elephants and sea lions dying.” The bird flu had reached that remote place in Argentina. A few weeks ago we confirmed that had arrived at the antarctic island from South Georgia killing 50,000 females elephant seal These days, however, the news caught us closer: it had also arrived in Spain. And the truth is that while the headlines are filled with bird flu, mass confinements and health alerts, chicken continues to be a central food in our diet. So it is logical that panic has spread. And, of course, that is a problem: a huge problem. In Xataka They are touching our balls (specifically, their price) Although not the one we tend to think. Although we are witnessing live and direct the largest epizootic of which we have records, the WHO continues to consider that the general risk to public health posed by A(H5N1) is low. Because, as Sergio Ferrer points out a few months ago, the most surprising thing about what we are seeing these years is that, “despite being immersed in a massive and historic wildlife mortality event, very few cases have been detected in humans.” And of course, there is no risk of contagion from consuming chicken or eggs from the supermarket. “No one has caught the bird flu virus from eating properly cooked animals or animal products,” said Jatin M. Vyasfrom Columbia University and he was right. Today, eating well-cooked poultry products is safe. That’s not the problem. And what is the problem? That the last thing a sector subjected to increasing costs, mandatory investments and minimum margins needed is a “global pandemic“. The consequences are clear in chicken meat. According to the Ministry of Agriculturethe price at origin of chicken meat in Spain was around €2.37/kg in week 38 of 2025. That is, an increase of 4% compared to the same moment in 2024. A moment in which, thanks to inflation, the price was already high. In Europe, the situation is worse: the price of broiler chicken has exceeded €3/kg for the first time and that represents an increase of 11.2% year-on-year. Something similar happens with eggs.. {“videoId”:”x7zvhsf”,”autoplay”:false,”title”:”REAL VS. FAKE BURGERS Could you tell them apart?”, “tag”:”food”, “duration”:”221″} And we’re talking about chicken, mind you. Chicken is not just another product: for years it has been the cheapest meat per kilo of protein. That is to say, It is the cheap protein par excellence. If the price breaks, the balance of the entire country’s shopping basket is broken. We have a serious problem around the corner. We better not miss the shot. Image | In Xataka |The United States has been immersed in extreme egg prices for months. Spain now faces the same problem (function() { window._JS_MODULES = window._JS_MODULES || {}; var headElement = document.getElementsByTagName(‘head’)(0); if (_JS_MODULES.instagram) { var instagramScript = document.createElement(‘script’); instagramScript.src=”https://platform.instagram.com/en_US/embeds.js”; instagramScript.async = true; instagramScript.defer = true; headElement.appendChild(instagramScript); – The news The problem is not that there is a risk of eating chicken in Spain: it is that it is going to get very expensive was originally published in Xataka by Javier Jimenez .

A study has just correlated them with a higher risk of cancer

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When we plan to lose weight, one of the first things we do is declare war on carbohydrates in the diet, reducing them as much as possible. All of this is conditioned on many occasions by the ‘advice’ that is seen on social networks in blogs, and which may have severe conditions as it was collected. in a published article in Nature Microbiology which suggests that this type of diet may end up increasing the risk of suffering from colorectal cancer. The study. Researchers conditioned by the increase in the number of people who decide to give up carbohydrates Because they relate it to weight gain, he wanted to test what was happening in a series of mice. In this way, an investigation was created with three different diets: a normal diet, one low in carbohydrates and another Western-style diet with a large amount of fat and carbohydrates. The result. After exposing the mice to these conditions, they analyzed their microbiota discovering a particular strain of E. coli bacteria, which was producing a toxin that damaged DNA called colibactin. A toxin that, in combination with a diet low in carbohydrates and soluble fiber, promotes the growth of polyps in the colon, which may be the first step to cancer. As recognized by the researcher himself, Alberto Martín, professor of immunology at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toronto, at first it was thought that colorectal cancer was caused by a combination of different factors like diet or genetics. But now a door is opening that means that a specific diet can lead to our bacteria enhancing the appearance of cancer. Because. Researchers found that a diet deficient in fiber increases inflammation of the intestine and alters the microbial community that reside here, that offer us many benefits and about which we are beginning to know more and more. Specifically, they focused on E. Coli that produces colibactin as we have discussed before, but what is really important here is that the mice fed a low-carbohydrate diet had a thinner layer of mucus that separates the intestinal microbes from the epithelial cells of the colon. A priori, this mucus barrier that we have in the digestive system acts as a layer of protection that allows bacteria not to come into direct contact with epithelial cells. But if this shield is thinner due to this poor diet, more colibactin can reach the colon cells directly and act as an epigenetic mechanism that alters their structure and drives the deregulation of the factors that control their cell cycle. But the researchers wanted to go a little further, by analyzing the effects on mice that had genetic mutations in their cells in the pathway responsible for repair damage that occurs in DNA. In this case the effect was very clear: the repair of these damages was not favored. This means that all the failures that are generated daily in our cells are not repaired or that the cell simply cannot enter apoptosis (programmed cell death) through these pathways. Something that adds ‘papers’ to have a cancer cell that gets out of control. Lynch syndrome. A genetic health problem which makes the patient have a greater chance of suffering from certain types of cancer, including colorectal cancer. All this due to mutations in genes that repair DNA, such as MLH1 and MSH2, among others. In this way, if a carbohydrate-deficient diet is added to these people who already have a higher probability of suffering from colon cancer, the effect of colibactin will increase these probabilities. That is why the findings made by researchers suggest that people with Lynch syndrome who harbor these colibactin-producing bacteria should avoid stopping carbohydrates so as not to increase the risk. They even suggest that they can take specific antibiotics for these colibactin-producing bacteria to further reduce the risk. Probiotics. With taking antibiotics, I’m sure that on more than one occasion you have been recommended to take probiotics in order to maintain the intestinal microbiota before the treatment. In this case, research suggests that a strain of E. coli called Nissle that produces colibactin is found in these probiotics, which makes us ask many questions about its effect on cancer. In this way, his laboratory is investigating whether long-term use of this probiotic is safe for people with Lynch syndrome or for those who follow a low-carbohydrate diet. The antidote. Given all this, the question is obligatory: how can I avoid this if I have to consume few carbohydrates? To this end, the study has been able to see a correlation between the increase in soluble fiber in the diet with a decrease in the levels of colibactin-producing E. Coli. This is something that translates into less interaction with DNA repair mechanisms and therefore a lower probability of suffering from cancer. “We supplemented fiber and saw that it reduced the effects of the low-carbohydrate diet (…) Now we are trying to find out which sources of fiber are most beneficial,” says Bhupesh Thakur, postdoctoral fellow and lead author of the study. A treatment. The goal right now is to try to counteract the increased risk of cancer due to this bacterial toxin. To this end, the use of inulin is being investigated, which has been seen to reduce the amount of E. coli, which produces colibactin, and improves intestinal health in high-risk people. A treatment that, as it could not be otherwise, is focused on the fiber itself, which will become the best ally in these situations. Images | engin akyurt National Cancer Institute In Xataka | Intermittent fasting is the fad diet. At least among scientists who study its effects on the microbiome

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t care to lose $ 200,000 million in AI. The real risk would not be betting on it, ensures

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“We are going to invest aggressively. Even if we lost a couple of hundreds of billions of dollars it would be an annoyancebut it is better than being left behind in the race for superintelligence. “Those words recently pronounced Mark Zuckerberg, Meta CEO. The founder of Facebook does not tend to shake his hand when making risky technological bets. He already knows what it is to lose them: Metaverso is being a failure for the moment, but even if he does not seem to want to leave that bet. The company continues to invest in it even though It is estimated which has already lost 45,000 million dollars in that project. But for him the commitment to AI, although it seems exorbitant, is almost mandatory strategically. In the interview In the Podcast Access The Meta CEO explained how In fact the Risk for a company as a goal would not be aggressive enough. In the recent Trump dinner With the great leaders of the technological segment in the US, Zuckerberg promised to invest at least 600,000 million dollars in the United States until 2028. Analysts believe that The numbers do not fit: It is estimated that Meta will invest about 80,000 million dollars in the US in the second half of 2025 (including all its expenses). That would make it necessary that from 2026 to 2028 he spent 520,000 million, but experts do not see it feasible and some They think than these comments They are more business marketing than anything else. But what is true is that both goal and other large technology companies are investing extraordinary amounts of money in this field. We already saw that Capex’s forecasts of some of them are huge in 2025 due to that commitment to AI data centers: Amazon: 100,000 Millions of dollars Microsoft: 80,000 Millions of dollars Google: 75,000 Millions of dollars Goal: 65,000 Millions of dollars Apple: 12,000 Millions of dollars Thus, Mark Zuckerberg is not too frightened to lose 200,000 million dollars in AI, but he also knows what is something like that. In April 2024 their financial results were so disastrous That their shares suddenly 19%, which was equivalent precisely to a drop in the stock market capitalization of 200,000 million dollars. Of course, Meta recovered. In that downturn the goal shares were just 500 dollars. Today and a half later, they are at maximum, $ 778. The company has stumbled in the past, but Zuckerberg has risen again and again AI bubble: “I think there is definitely the possibility, at least empirically, based on large infrastructure constructions of the past and how they led to bubbles.” And even so, Zuckerberg is clear that this is a critical moment for this technology and it is better to bet on the big not to do it and lose. For him going too slow can make you lose a privilege position, and that would be fatal because according to him “it will be the most important technology that will allow the greatest number of new products, innovation and creation of value in history.” In Xataka | Big Tech have buried thousands and billions in AI. They are earning money, but not thanks to the AI

Not all processed foods are a risk to our health. Some tricks can help us choose the best

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Not all processed and ultraprocessed foods They affect the same way To our health. Although the damages of this type of food have been contrasted on numerous occasions, many experts remember that terms such as “processed” and “ultraprocessed” are nothing more than broad categories that can be orientative but sometimes hide a more complex reality. What is an ultraprocess? The first issue we should consider is the question of what is an ultraprocess food? There is no universal response, but the answer is relatively intuitive and we can guide ourselves by the definitions made by experts in the field. An example of this is the so -called nova classification, FAO employeethe United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. The first category in this classification (Nova1) is reserved for unprocessed or minimally processed foods. The fruit or raw vegetable would be examples of this type of food. A second category (Nova2) is reserved for processed culinary ingredients. This category refers to usual products such as oil, sugar, salt or butter, usually employed in the elaboration of dishes but not consumed alone. Processed and outrage. The two key categories in this context are that of the defendants (Nova3) and Ultraprocess (Nova4). The first of these categories includes foods with intermediate processing, such as legumes and canned fruit, sausages or some smoked foods. An article Posted last year In the magazine BMJ (British Medical Journal) he remembered that, although considering this category at a general level, we find evidence that the ultra -process consumption can be linked to a lower life expectancy, the relationship was more complex. Not all the same. We usually consider that Ultraprocessin general, they are less healthy, dense foods in calories and poor in other nutrients. However, even within this category we can find high diversity. An article Posted last year In the magazine BMJ (British Medical Journal) he remembered that, although considering this category at a general level, we find evidence that the ultra -process consumption can be linked to a lower life expectancy, the relationship was more complex. Three tips to choose better. In A recent article in The conversation, Clare Collins, an expert in nutrition and dietary at the University of Newcastle, in Australia, gave some clues about how we can choose processed foods, and even ultraprocessed, which less risk suppose for our health. The first of the tips is to take time to read the list of product ingredients. The expert recommends looking for those products with less additives and “ingredients that could be found in the kitchen of a house.” It should be remembered that sometimes additives lists hide common products that we do in our kitchens under names or codes, so we cannot assume that all additives are harmful, but the amount of these can give us a clue about the product’s elaboration process. Regarding the label, Collins also recommends looking at the additional information given by products labels. In Spain, for example, we would have the Code Nutriscore that, although it is far from being perfect, it can help us in our decision. Habit. The third and last Collins advice It is “to think about what we eat a product.” Consuming ultraprocessed occasionally will not put our well -being at risk, it is usually doing so when we incur a higher risk. That is why the expert recommends focusing our efforts on those products that we consume once or more per week. In Xataka | To the question of whether ultraprocessed foods are as bad as they have told us, science still has no clear answer Image | Famingjia inventor

Madrid plays 23.4 billion with data centers. The risk of losing them is in the electrical infrastructure

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Madrid has managed to position itself as The great HUB Digital of Southern Europe For the data centers industry, but the electrical infrastructure of the twentieth century cannot support the growth of the 21st century. Why is it important. The Community of Madrid leads Spain in data centers with 23.4 billion euros in investments planned until 2028. But 82% saturation This leadership puts this leadership against other European regions. In figures: Madrid concentrates 54.8% of the national capacity of data centers with 216 MW in operation. The forecasts point to 522 MW when the works under construction and up to 1.7 GW in 2030. The sector has grown 33% last year and will generate 35,000 jobs in six years. The threat. Ayuso is preparing allegations against what he considers A “over -regulation” of the Ministry of Ecological Transition, but the real problem is on the network. Electric distributors denied six out of ten access requests last year. Without immediate improvements, Spain would have already lost 60,000 million in investments, according to the employer’s calculations, Spain DC, collected by Digital economy. Between the lines. The Madrid paradox is evident: The region produces just 1,334 GWh … … but consume 27,487 GWh per year. It is an energy black hole that works because Spain exports electricity and technological ones sign long -term contracts. But that does not solve the saturation of the distribution network. What is happening. The Government He has put a Royal Decree until September 15 which will force data centers to report their environmental footprint, energy consumption and water use. Madrid considers that it can subtract competitiveness, but it is a minor problem compared to the lack of electrical capacity. Deepen. Spain DC claims an urgent modernization plan, and The electric ones ask the CNMC to raise the remuneration rate of 6.46% to 7.5% To invest in a network. The cost will be paid by consumers at the light bill, but without that investment Madrid will lose the train centers train against Frankfurt, Amsterdam or Paris. In Xataka | Emptied Spain has been filled with solar mills and panels, but waste energy for a simple reason: there are no cables Outstanding image | Community of Madrid

A massive study links it with a higher risk of chronic pain in adult

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During generations, the message has been the same: menstrual pain is normal, a “girls” to endure. But the reality is that a pain of great draft never It is something that should have been normalized. Now, a Longitudinal study Published in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe comes to disassemble this myth and to give an alarm voice: Have painful periods In adolescence it is linked to health problems in the future. A public health problem. The methodology of this study has been based on the monitoring of more than a thousand participants in the United Kingdom for decades. In this way, not only has it been confirmed, it has been concluded that the more severe the menstrual pain at age 15, the greater the probability of developing chronic pain a decade later, at 26. In this way, menstrual pain goes from being normalized to a serious public health problem. A methodology with long -term views. To get to this conclusion, the researchers They used data of the Longitudinal Avon Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), An ambitious project that has followed the lives of thousands of people since birth in the 90s. They analyzed the information of 1,157 participants, evaluating the severity of their menstrual pain at 15 years classified as null, mild, moderate or severe. Subsequently, once these participants were already 26 years old, an analysis of their health status was carried out by asking if They suffered some kind of chronic pain. Something that was defined as a pain that lasted at least three months. Worrying figures. After adjusting the data to rule out the influence of other factors such as BMIthe socioeconomic level or previous mental health problems, the results were clear. The first of all, is that adolescents with moderate dysmenorrhea, that is, with strong enough pain to not be able to ignore it, they had an extra 65% probability of suffering chronic pain in the adult stage compared to those without menstrual pain. In the case of the most severe dysmenorrhea, which prevent normal activities, the risk is triggered up to 76% of suffering chronic pain in the future. These data translate into an increase in absolute risk of 12.7 and 16.2 percentage points, respectively. It is a difference too big to be ignored. The study also revealed how common this problem is: almost 60% of adolescents in the sample reported moderate to severe menstrual pain. A problem that extends through the body. One of the most interesting findings in the study is that the association is not limited to the classic abdominal or lumbar pain, which could be considered an extension menstrual pain. What happens in this case is that adolescents with severe dysmenorrhea show a greater risk of chronic head pain, back, knees, dolls, hips and thighs. Because? The authors of the study suggest that behind all this is a central sensitivity. To understand it, we must bear in mind that in adolescence there is a great neuroplasticity, where the nervous system is especially moldable. The repeated experience of intense and poorly managed pain, such as dysmenorrhea, can “train” the nervous system so that it becomes hypersensitive. In essence, the brain and spinal cord learns to be in a constant alert state, which increases vulnerability to develop other types of pain in the future, even in those areas that are not at all related. For Dr. Rachel Reid-McCann, principal researcher, “It is possible that the experience of moderate or severe menstrual pain can alter the structure of the brain and how it works in response to painful stimuli, making chronic pain more likely in the future.”. It is not a purely psychological. In the study itself, researchers have seen a relationship between dysmenorrhea and a subsequent increased symptoms related to anxiety and depression. But these factors only explained a small part of the connection with chronic pain and this reinforces the idea that the main cause is a physiological mechanism, and not simply that “pain is in the head.” You have to stop normalizing pain. The conclusion of the study is a call to action for father, educators and, above all, for the health system. Normalize menstrual pain and dispatch it as “is normal” has great long -term consequences. And that will go to the health system. The researchers point out that menstrual stigma and the lack of education on menstrual health cause many young people not to seek help, or that when they do, their complaints are minimized. In this way, it is believed that early identification and good control of dysmenorrhea can be key to improving the immediate well -being of adolescents and preventing the appearance of serious health problems in the future. Images | Saranya7 In Xataka | A baby, three parents (biological): a promising fertilization technique that, for now, we will not see in Spain

Work no longer prevents 30% of young people from being at risk of poverty and we have found the reason: housing

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The existing gap between the cost of life and salaries in Spain calls into question that having a job (even when it is stable) is already a subsistence guarantee without falling at risk of poverty. According to him last report From the Emancipation Observatory of the Youth Council of Spain, around 30% of young people in Spain live at risk of poverty or social exclusion, even having a job. Work no longer guarantees to avoid poverty. Having a job has ceased to be synonym for security for children under 30 years. According to data from the Emancipation Observatory report, 18.8% of the young people working are at risk of poverty. This figure almost doubles the 2009 data and confirms the wear of the labor market as a protective shield. The report indicates that for Those who have no job The reality is even more severe: more than 52.1% of unemployed young people live under the threshold of poverty, twice the average of the total population. The salary goes up and lowers youth strike. The figures released by the report reveal that, although the Medium salary Juvenile rose 11.4% in 2024 reaching 14,046 euros per year, a good part of young people cannot guarantee sufficient quality of life With that salary. 53.6% of young people between 16 and 29 do not have their own income, and in 14.9% of young households none of its members have a job. The Observatory recognizes that youth unemployment figures have improved by lowering to 19.1%, their lowest value since 2007. However, it remains at a high 24.9% unemployment between children under 25 and 35.5% among those who combine work with the studies. In addition, 36.2% of occupied youth It is overwhelmed for employment What does it perform. The inequality of women and young people with less studies. Women and young people with fewer studies are the most exposed to the threshold of poverty even having a stable job. The risk of poverty affects 31.1% of young women compared to 28.9% among men, and the gap is extended when the educational level decreases. In addition, according to The published by Infobaeyoung men earn 1,929 euros more a year than their companions, a significant salary distance that equals more than one monthly payment. The vault key: housing. In the epicenter of this economic precariousness is the one who, According to the January 2025 barometer Prepared by the CIS, it is the main concern of the Spaniards: the exorbitant prices of housing. The difficulties for access a home own have aggravated the situation and Emancipation rate of young people(Data that represents the number of young people who can leave the family home to start their vital project) in Spain was just 14.8% during the first half of 2024, the lowest level recorded since you have registration. A wall for emancipation. Access to your own home has become Mission almost impossible For the young. As published in the report, The base rental It is around 1,080 euros per month, which means that a young person must dedicate 92.3% of their salary to housing if they want to live alone. The purchase option is not much more optimistic. The Observatory estimates the average sale price of housing in about 197,210 euros, which is equivalent to 14 years of a current average youth salary. Only the entrance for housing (estimated at 59,163 euros) is already about four years of salary, making youth emancipation more complicated. Given this real estate context, 57.9% of young people who manage to emancipate rent. Of these, almost a third share a flat to be able to assume the expenses. However, this is not an affordable alternative either. The average price of a room in shared floor It amounts to 375 euros per month, equivalent to 35.8% of the monthly net salary of a young man. These percentages exceed the spending threshold for the internationally recommended housing, set at 30%. In Xataka | Barcelona tested a basic income of 1,297 euros per month and the job search was reduced by 22%: the test was a success Image | Unspash (Gabor Szuhan)

Living near a mountain in Spain is already a risk

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Summer is rest time, beach, ice cream, hopefully some trip to a friendlier place of climate and dirt days with friends. If we talk about populations near forests or tree masses, it is also synonymous with something else: anguish. Galicia lived in a hot October 2017when the flames arrived in inhabited areas and forced the neighbors to leave home with Water cubesand three songs have just remembered, in Madrid. Although there the landscape is different, the fire has originated in a Low mountain area Without urbanizing. Actually it is something that has penetrated throughout Spain: in summer, living near the mountain or hills with vegetation has become a risk factor. Earrings of three songs. Three songs, a city of 53,000 neighbors From the Community of Madrid, he lives moments of anguish. And rightly. Yesterday, minutes before eight in the afternoon, a fire was declared that with the passing of the hours it has gone Calcinating hectaresforced to evacuate to the neighbors of several urbanizations and even left a deceasedan employee of the equestrian Soto de Viñuelas to which the flames supposedly surrounded them while trying to save the horses. The emergency services were able to rescue him and transfer him by helicopter to La Paz hospital, but there they could not do anything to save his life. Died a few hours. It was 50 years old and had burns in 98% of the body. Do we know anything else? Yes. Carlos Novillo, Minister of Environment, He explained that the fire has had “an explosive characteristic” that relates to “a storm that dries” accompanied by strong wind gusts. In fact, he assures that bursts have overcome 70 kilometers per hour. The origin of the flames would be in the known as Third phase of three songs, a low mountain area. The flames have forced evacuating several urbanizationsincluding that of Soto de Viñuelas, and host more than a hundred people in sports center. In its updated information service the Community of Madrid states that the flames have affected around 1,000 hectaresespecially pastures, thickets and trees, in addition to four homes of the Soto de Viñuelas urbanization. The fire too He has reached The King´s College campus, one of the most recognized British schools in Spain and that houses internal students. Beyond Madrid. Although the virulence of the three songs has focused the attention of much of the country and its smoke It has been visible From several points of the capital, the truth is that it is not the only asset in Spain. Throughout the last days the flames have hit with greater or lesser force Galicia, Castilla y León, Andalusia either Cataloniaforcing to confine or evacuate thousands of people and razing thousands of hectares. The fire even It has affected to the natural place of the medulla, in the region of El Bierzo, ruining centenary chestnuts. Summer comes … And the fire. The fires of recent days remember a sad reality to Spain: summer, especially the driest months and with higher temperatures, usually bring more than vacation. With them also the fires. Only between January and September of last year were registered near 4,900 fires forestry. And while the vast majority (approximately 71%) were small -range conatos, in total they razed 43,600 hectares. 64 fires also had consequences for the population and 39 were accompanied by evacuations that affected 4,300 people. There were also five deaths. They may seem high figures, but the forest surface razed by the flames represented only 50% of the average of the last decade. This year at the beginning of August the affected surface exceeded 39,100 hamore than in 2024, although below the average of the decade. The hectares consumed these days in several regions of the country must now be added to that figure. Live around the field. Not all regions of Spain suffer the scourge of fires with equal intensity. Civio has elaborated A map distributing the more than 6200.00 forest fires registered between 1968 and 2017 and burned at least one hectares and it can be seen how the problem is especially serious in Galicia, the Cantabrian arch and certain areas of Extremadura. The plane reflects a reality that usually hit the most affected points in summer: living in certain pointsnext to wooded areas, it has become a source of anguish. The case of Galicia. Galicia left a good example in October 2017when the fires ravaged important population nuclei and even charged Several victims. One of the iconic images left by that episode was that of neighbors leaving home with Water buckets or forming Human chains To suffocate the flames. What happened then was especially tragic, but not an isolated case. In Chandrexa de Queixa, Ourense, A fire Declared last Friday, he has approached the homes so much that he has forced to evict neighbors. Something similar has happened in The Bierzoin Cádiz due to A fire originated in the Sierra de la Plata or at points of Tarragona and Lleida In Julywhen local authorities decided to order confinements to protect people from the flames. Proximity and something else. The problem is not just living near the mountains. Fire risk depends on more than factors such as high temperatures, low levels of humidity or wind. The pressure on ecosystems, insufficient forest management, the abandonment of traditional uses of the mountain, depopulation or accumulation of vegetation in forests also influence. “The increase in forest surface does not translate into the increase in healthy, stable and diverse forests. The cultivated and grazing areas in the past are today covered by thickets, young pioneer or monoespecific rods that, without adequate management, are condemned to burn ” warns Miguel Castillo, of the Forest Fire Laboratory of the University of Chile. Images | Elentir (Flickr), 112 Community of Madrid (X) and José Manuel Gacía (Flickr) In Xataka | In the middle of the fire, there is something that Spanish firefighters are very aware: the 30-30 rule

A complicated summer can put the advances in recent months at risk

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Experts tell us that we are faced with a new change in the weather tendency. After a first half of the extremely warm summer, the second half of June He gave us a respite based on a reduction in temperatures and several tormentous episodes concentrated in the north third and in the Mediterranean basin. Now this slight respite has the days counted: the heat will return strongly and the rainfall is expected below normal even for the summer. How is this affecting reservoirs? How are our reservoirs? The Last data of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge indicate a slight decrease in the embalmed water in the Spanish swamps in the last week. The reservoirs have passed to be at 68.4% of its capacity to 67%. A fall is significant of more than one percentage point In a week it is significant even taking into account that we are in summer, more if we consider the fact that this has been a wet week in several areas of the Peninsula, such as the northern third, Catalonia or the Segura basin. The good news is that, despite this descent, the water reserve It is maintained Above the average in the last five and ten years, and also above its level now a year ago. Different trends. This does not mean that the rains have not been worth In hydrographic data: the internal basins of Catalonia and that of the Segura have been the only two that They have resisted the pull this week. The former have managed to maintain their level of filling at 77.5%; And the second has seen its swamps to increase in volume compared to the previous week, moving from an average filling of 28.7% to 28.8%. In contrast, the internal basins of the Basque Country went from being at 90.5% of its capacity at 85.4%. With regard to the big basins, they all lost water, but the decrease was more marked in the Ebro, whose swamps went from being at 77.5% of their capacity to being at 74.4%, below the Catalan basins. A complicated August. August does not seem aimed at bringing an improvement in the situation. Monthly predictions The State Meteorology Agency (AEMET) indicates that the weeks ahead will be warmer and drier than it would correspond to the first weeks of August. The anomaly in rainfall will be mild, but will affect most of the country over the next weeks. Regarding the anomaly at temperature this will be more irregular. While we can expect a thermal anomaly between three and five degrees in most of the country, next week it is possible that the East Peninsular will see temperatures even somewhat lower than normal for these dates. In Xataka | The next great drought is a matter of time. It is the one we have to solve the problem of sediments in reservoirs Image | Niels Baars

In the heat and extreme summer storms in Menorca, Aemet has just added one more risk: “Meteotsunamis”

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A trough travels the peninsula and, like The experts advancedtheir impacts begin to be noticed today. These impacts have led to the State Meteorology Agency (Aemet) to issue various notices, Among them one focused on the risk of Rissagasthe phenomenon also known as “Meteotsunami”. Notice by Rissagas. In addition to the notices for rains and storms (which bind to notices still in force for temperatures of more than 36º in areas of Albacete and Murcia), Aemet has issued various coastal notices that will remain active during the next few days in the Mediterranean, specifically in Catalonia and Balearic Islands. Among these notices is an active one on the coast of the island of Menorca, since there are expected sea level oscillations that could reach 0.7 meters. This oscillation of the island region responds in the Balearic Islands At the end Rissagabut it is also usually called “Meteotsunami” for presenting some parallelism with the seismic phenomenon. Rissagas or meteotsunamis. As we pointed out before, the Rissagas They are abrupt oscillations of sea level. As explained some time ago Aemet’s then territorial delegate in Illes Balears, Mª José Guerrero, these phenomena occur only in coves and ports “with a certain geometry.” As with the tsunamis, these begin with the sea by backward, which can leave the small boats of the fishing and sports ports stranded. In a matter of minutes, the waters return to the port, and do so with a flood that can drag the vessels and overflow the docks. On average, these oscillations are usually about 50 centimeters. However, cases have been found in which they reached several meters. “Tsunamis“Meteorological. As its name suggests, the “Meteotsunami” differs from a tsunami in his Meteorological origin and not seismic. According to Aemetthese phenomena are produced by “small although sudden changes in atmospheric pressure (1-3 hectopascal) derived from the passage of fronts, gravitational waves, turbonada lines and in general phenomena associated with convection.” First red notice of Aemet. The forecasts speak of significant impacts beyond the risks on the coast. Aemet’s forecasts They alert today “showers and storms with a probability of being strong, even locally very strong”, which will affect large areas of Catalonia, Pyrenees, northern zone of the Valencian Community and east of the Iberian system. Tomorrow these showers and storms are expected to affect both the Mediterranean coast of the peninsula and the Balearic Islands themselves. Thus, the agency has issued notices of different categories distributed throughout the center and northern Mediterranean slope and the Balearic Islands. Today’s notices include a red notice (extreme risk) due to rains in the central depression of Barcelona. In that area, up to 60 mm of rainfall could be accumulated in one hour and up to 120 mm in a matter of three or four hours. Waiting for a change. In addition to the red notice due to extreme risk, the agency maintains various orange notices (for important risk) during today’s and tomorrow, both for rains and storms. The situation is expected Start to appease on Fridayalthough some episodes torments are expected to continue during that day. In Xataka | The heat of the last weeks has been so extreme that we have already exceeded tropical nights: the equatorial nights are here Image | Menorchin / Aemet

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