The Balearic islands have passed a pioneering law protecting the well-being of present and future generations. Can it be successful?
‘For a peseta a drink you can dance all afternoon, even if you wear racket trousers, with a line-up of pretty girls’. Photograph by Contreras y Vilaseca illustrating a news item about dances in the magazine ‘Estampa’ of 31 July 1928.
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The general elections in Spain have left a confusing scenario in which party agreements will be the main protagonists.
Left or right: that will be the choice of Spanish voters in the early general elections on July 23, which could see a far-right party enter government.
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If the conservatives win the election and Vox holds the balance of power, the far right will take part in a governmental coalition for the first time since the consolidation of Spanish democracy.
Proclamation of the Second Republic in Spain. Crowds with banners and flags.
Archivo Baldomero y Aguayo, IPCE, Ministerio de Cultura y Deporte
Jaume Claret, UOC - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
After the country’s municipal elections in May 2023, perceived as a plebiscite on the government, President Pedro Sánchez called for general elections.
Spanish history recounts the existence of various peripheral nationalisms (Catalan and Basque), while, in many cases, the existence of a Spanish nationalism of Castilian origin is ignored.
Some of our cultural conceptions of wine, including its authenticity, stem from the commercial nature of the product.
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Wine has been a commercial product for 3,000 years. Paradoxically, many of the cultural ideas we have about wine today actually come from its commercial history.
Blistering temperatures are spreading across southern and eastern Europe.
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The extent of the abuse suffered by Real Madrid’s Vinícius Júnior shows how enduringly unresponsive the country’s legal system, sporting officials and media have been.
Satellite image showing the lack of water in the Doñana National Park.
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A recent study reveals that 59% of the ponds in Doñana have not been flooded since at least 2013. Water abstractions from the aquifer are one of the main reasons behind the demise of this iconic wetland.
Pedro Sánchez announcing that next general elections in Spain will be held the 23rd of July, 2023.
La Moncloa
Anti-racist programs and fines have failed to end racism in European soccer. Part of the problem is that Black players have little representation higher up the sport’s hierarchy.
The control of fire by humans probably developed gradually over thousands of years.
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One out of every four litres of water used in the Balearic Archipelago is a result of tourism. In the municipalities with the highest number of tourist lodgings, related consumption exceeds 58%.
Guerillas from the Mozambican National Resistance (Renamo) pictured in 1990.
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The hero of Cervantes’ classic 17th century novel has been sorely misrepresented since the early 20th century as a symbol of nationalist and Islamophobic ideas.
In July 2022, passers-by watch the progress of a fire near Gignac (Hérault).
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The forest fires that struck the Continent in the summer of 2022 were devastating, yet historical data shows that they were not ‘unprecedented’, contrary to media accounts.
Skeletal reconstruction of the Langebaanweg sabertooth, with highlighted elements to indicate the bones examined in this study.
Adapted from Mauricio Antón (2013)
A closer look at these fossil bones revealed more than the suggestion of a previously undescribed species - it pointed to the individual animal having suffered with osteoarthritis.