Heat waves in rivers increase four times faster than atmospheric heat waves
A study using data from over 1,000 rivers shows that these extreme events now last almost twice as long on the water as they do in the air
Fires continue to rage in Spain, overwhelming authorities
Firefighting professionals denounce their precarious working conditions and the lack of coordination within regional government operations. The blazes have now claimed three lives
‘Plan Marta’: The journey of 815 young women sent to Australia by Francoist Spain
‘The real deception lay in the impossibility of paying for the return ticket,’ says Natalia Ortiz, a researcher of these expeditions that provided domestic service for Australian families
Wealthy foreigners set their sights on northern Spain
In recent years, the number of luxury homes acquired along this cooler, greener region of the peninsula has soared, and realtors have noticed an uptick in buyers from the United States
Slovakia to cull 350 brown bears after fatal attack
In other parts of the world, programs are being implemented to prevent problematic bears from becoming accustomed to the presence of humans
Study reveals the mystery of the ‘lost’ arctic owls that appeared in northern Spain three years ago
Analysis of the isotopes of their feathers rules out the possibility that they were born in captivity and suggests that they came from somewhere in the Arctic and may have arrived on a boat
Romanesque churches’ explicitly sexual carvings were ‘the nobility’s political propaganda’
Historian Isabel Mellén suggests a reinterpretation of the graphic images that adorn the doorways and columns of the churches in northern Spain
The Spanish Reconquest and the Battle of Covadonga: When myths contaminate history
In several recent essays historians discuss the founding milestones of Spanish nationalism, the traditional banner of conservative politicians, around the struggle for Al-Andalus
Not in the city, not in the countryside: In Spain, rental pressure leaves tenants with nowhere to go
Prices exceed 30% of average income in urban areas in almost all parts of the country. Experts talk about ‘a second gentrification’ of people who were expelled from city centers to the periphery and now find themselves pushed beyond that
A rare mammal with a trunk-like snout and webbed feet: The Iberian desman faces extinction
The ‘Spanish platypus’ is unique to the Iberian Peninsula and a jewel of evolution that has lost up to 70% of the geographical range it occupied three decades ago
Russia gives Spain digital copy of a valuable medieval manuscript stolen in 1835
The 11th-century ‘Will of Count Gundesindo’ disappeared from a monastery and showed up over a century later in Saint Petersburg