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Is climate change shaping our societies?

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Is climate change shaping our societies?

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New schedules given high temperatures (average 1,3+ degrees, 4 heat waves in Spain summer 2023)

Necessity to change cities lanscapes (shadows, trees,...)

School schedules (May, June, September...rising temperatures at peak hours)

Climate refugees: islands no longer existing. Flooding, drought make places no longer bearable to live.

Social problems: water shortage, crops shotage. Competition between population, National secuarity problem. i.e. 14.6% Spanish territory is under a national emergency because of water scarcity and droughts.

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Water management: Part of Dutch cultural heritage

Food & Water challenges: impact on whole Europe

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Projects on what we have in common as Europeans

food

language

Faith

art

and how it affects each country

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I've been able to create an outlook account: nnavasmel@outlook.es.

We can now share through microsoft. 🥰

I have created this doc to share the preparation for the app. Hope you agree.

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Challenges and possibilities

We are living in a world where we still need to work together to solve challenges facing the environment. Students learning more about the topic and sharing ideas of how to live more environmentally friendly. What are the possibilities?

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Climate Change - How Will it Change Society?| Mindless Mag

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Arguably the world's largest global problem with the ability to impact every life on Earth, climate change has become one of the most talked about issues worldwide. From flooding to forest fires, impacts of pollution and increased greenhouse gases are shaping the world and in turn, shaping society.

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Discover the policies, laws and strategies the EU has put in place to help it reach its goal of becoming fully adapted to the impacts of climate change by 2050.

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Empower students to address local challenges through community action projects related to environmental conservation, migrant integration, or digital inclusion.

Partner schools could identify specific issues affecting their communities and collaborate on designing and implementing solutions. This could involve organizing clean-up campaigns, volunteering at migrant support centers, or teaching digital skills to elderly residents. By working together, students can make a tangible difference in their communities while learning important life skills.

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Create a platform for students to share their migration stories and experiences, fostering empathy and understanding among peers.

Partner schools could organize storytelling workshops, cultural exchange events, and collaborative digital projects such as creating a digital archive of migration stories. This project would promote inclusivity and celebrate diversity within the school communities.

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Small-scale Partnerships are designed to widen access to the programme to small-scale actors and individuals who are hard to reach in the fields of school education, adult education, vocational education and training, youth and sport. With lower grant amounts awarded to organisations, shorter duration and simpler administrative requirements compared to the Cooperation Partnerships, this action aims at reaching out to grassroots organisations, less experienced organisations and newcomers to the Programme, reducing entry barriers to the programme for organisations with smaller organisational capacity. This action will also support flexible formats - mixing activities with transnational and national character although with a European dimension - allowing organisations to have more means to reach out to people with fewer opportunities. Small-scale Partnerships can also contribute to the creation and development of transnational networks and to fostering synergies with, and between, local, regional, national and international policies.

Objectives of the Action

Attract and widen access for newcomers, less experienced organisations and small-scale actors to the programme. These partnerships should act as a first step for organisations into cooperation at European level.

Support the inclusion of target groups with fewer opportunities

Support active European citizenship and bring the European dimension to the local level

In addition, the main objectives of Cooperation Partnerships also apply to Small-sсale Partnerships, proportionally to the scope and volume of each project:

Increasing quality in the work and practices of the organisations and institutions involved, opening up to new actors not naturally included within one sector;

Building capacity of organisations to work transnationally and across sectors;

Addressing common needs and priorities in the fields of education, training, youth and sport;

Enabling transformation and change (at individual, organisational or sectoral level), leading to improvements, in proportion to the context of each organisation

What are the criteria to be met to apply for a small-scale partnership?

Small-scale Partnerships must respect the following criteria in order to be eligible for an Erasmus+ grant:

Who can apply?

Any participating organisation established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme can be the applicant. This organisation applies on behalf of all participating organisations involved in the project.

Which types of organisations are eligible to participate in the project?

Any public or private organisation , established in an EU Member State or third country associated to the Programme (see section "Eligible Countries" in Part A of this Guide) can participate in a Small-scale Partnership.

Irrespective of the field impacted by the project, Small-scale Partnerships are open to any type of organisation active in any field of education, training, youth, sport or other socio-economic sectors as well as to organisations carrying out activities that are transversal to different fields (e.g. local, regional and national authorities, recognition and validation centres, chambers of commerce, trade organisations, guidance centres, cultural and sport organisations).

Depending on the priority and the objectives addressed by the project, Small-scale Partnerships should involve the most appropriate and diverse range of partners in order to benefit from their different experiences, profiles and specific expertise.

Number and profile of participating organisations

A Small-scale Partnership is transnational and involves minimum two organisations from two different EU Member States or third countries associated to the Programme.

There is no maximum number of participating organisations in one partnership.

All participating organisations must be identified at the time of applying for a grant.

Priorities addressed

To be considered for funding, Small-scale Partnerships must address either:

at least one horizontal priority

and/or

at least one specific priority relevant to the field of education, training, youth and sport that is mostly impacted.

For projects in the fields of vocational education and training, school education, adult education and youth managed by the Erasmus+ National Agencies, National Agencies may, among these priorities, give more consideration to those that are particularly relevant in their national context (called "European priorities in the national context"). National Agencies must duly inform potential applicants through their official websites.

For projects in the field of sport only one priority (horizontal or specific) can be addressed.

Venue(s) of the activities

All the activities of a Small-scale Partnership must take place in the countries of the organisations participating in the project.

In addition, if duly justified in relation to the objectives or implementation of the project, activities can also take place at the seat of an Institution of the European Union , even if in the project there are no participating organisations from the country that hosts the Institution.

Duration of the project

Between 6 and 24 months.

The duration has to be chosen at application stage, based on the objectives of the project and on the type of activities planned over time.

In exceptional cases, the duration of a Small-scale Partnership may be extended, upon request of the beneficiary and with the agreement of the National Agency, with up to 6 months. In this case, the total grant will not change. In all cases, projects must end not later than 31 August 2024.

Where to apply?
For Small-scale Partnerships in the fields of vocational education and training, school education, adult education and youth submitted by any organisation in these fields:

To the National Agency of the country in which the applicant organisation is established.
For Small-scale Partnerships in the field of sport:

To the European Education and Culture Executive Agency, based in Brussels.

Call ID: ERASMUS-SPORT-2023-SSCP

In both cases, the same consortium of partners can submit only one application and to one Agency per deadline .

When to apply?

For Small-scale Partnerships in the fields of vocational education and training, school education, adult education and youth submitted by any organisation in these fields:

Applicants have to submit their grant application

by 22 March at 12:00:00 (midday Brussels time) for projects starting between 1 September and 31 December of the same year.

by 4 October at 12:00:00 (midday Brussels time) for projects starting between 1 January and 31 August of the following year

Possible additional deadline for Small scale Partnerships in the field of youth:
National Agencies may organise an additional around for applications for projects in the field of youth, for which the rules set out in this Guide will also apply. National Agencies will inform of this possibility via their website.

If the additional round is organised, applicants have to submit their grant application by 4 May at 12:00:00 (midday Brussels time), for projects starting between 1 August and 31 December of the same year.

For Small-scale Partnerships in the field of sport:

Applicants have to submit their grant application by 22 March at 17:00:00

Setting up a project

A Small-scale Partnership project consists of four stages, which start even before the project proposal is selected for funding: planning, preparation, implementation and follow-up. Participating organisations and participants involved in the activities should take an active role in all those stages enhancing thus their learning experience.

Planning (define the needs, objectives, project and learning outcomes, activity formats, schedule etc.);

preparation (planning of the activities, development of work programme, practical arrangements, confirmation of the target group(s) of envisaged activities, set up of agreements with partners etc.);

implementation of activities;

follow-up (evaluation of the activities and their impact at different levels, sharing and use of the project's results).

Small-scale Partnerships may include the organisation of transnational learning, teaching and training activities of individuals and groups of individuals, in so far as they bring added value in the achievement of the project's objectives.

For Small-scale Partnerships in the field of sport, it is recommended to include in the proposals at least one local or regional sport club.

Horizontal aspects to be considered when designing your project:

In addition to complying with the formal criteria and setting up sustainable cooperation arrangement with all project partners, the following elements can contribute to increasing the impact and qualitative implementation of cooperation partnerships. Applicants are encouraged to take these opportunities and dimensions into account when designing Small-scale Partnerships projects.

Inclusion and Diversity

The Erasmus+ Programme seeks to promote equal opportunities and access, inclusion and fairness across all its actions. To implement these principles, an Inclusion and Diversity Strategy has been devised to support a better outreach to participants from more diverse backgrounds, in particular those with fewer opportunities facing obstacles to participate in European Projects. Small-scale partnerships are especially suitable to work on inclusion and diversity as the subject of the project, further developing inclusive and diversity-sensitive practices and methods, in accordance with the corresponding policy priority for the action. Also, independently from the thematic of their projects, organisations should design accessible and inclusive project activities, taking into account the views of participants with fewer opportunities and involving them in decision making throughout the whole process.

Environmental sustainability

Projects should be designed in an eco-friendly way and should incorporate green practices in all its facets. Organisations and participants should have an environmental-friendly approach when designing the project, which will encourage everyone involved in the project to discuss and learn about environmental issues, reflecting about what can be done at different levels and help organisations and participants come up with alternative, greener ways of implementing project activities.

Digital dimension

Virtual cooperation and experimentation with virtual and blended learning opportunities are key to successful Small-scale Partnerships. In particular, projects in the field of school education and adult education are strongly encouraged to use the European School Education Platform, eTwinning and Adult learning platform (EPALE) to work together before, during and after the project activities. Projects in the field of youth are strongly encouraged to use the European Youth Portal and the European Youth Strategy Platform to work together before, during and after the project activities.

Participation and civic engagement

The Programme supports participation and active engagement throughout all its actions. Small-scale Partnership projects should offer opportunities for people's participation in democratic life, social and civic engagement. The focus will also be on raising awareness on and understanding the European Union context, notably as regards the common EU values, the principles of unity and diversity, as well as their cultural identity, cultural awareness and their social and historical heritage.

Award criteria

Relevance of the project (maximum score 30 points)

The extent to which:

the project proposal is relevant to the objectives and the priorities of the Action. In addition the proposal will be considered as highly relevant if:

it addresses the priority "inclusion and diversity";

In case of projects managed by the Erasmus+ National Agencies: if it addresses one or more "European Priorities in the national context", as announced by the National Agency;

the profile, experience and activities of the participating organisations are relevant for the field of the application;

the proposal brings added value at EU level by building capacity of organisations to engage in cross-border cooperation and networking.

Quality of the project design and implementation (maximum score 30 points)

The extent to which:

the project objectives are clearly defined, realistic and address the needs and goals of the participating organisations and the needs of their target groups;

the activities are designed in an accessible and inclusive way and are open to people with fewer opportunities.

the proposed methodology is clear, adequate and feasible:

the project work plan is clear, complete and effective, including appropriate phases for preparation, implementation and sharing project results;

the project is cost-effective and allocates appropriate resources to each activity;

the project incorporates the use of digital tools and learning methods to complement their physical activities, and to improve the cooperation with partner organisations
If applicable: the extent to which the project makes use of Erasmus+ online platforms (European Education Platform, EPALE, European Youth Portal, EU Youth Strategy Platform) as tools for preparation, implementation and follow-up of the project activities.

The project is designed in an eco-friendly way and incorporates green practices in different project phases.

Quality of the partnership and cooperation arrangements (maximum score 20 points)

The extent to which:

the project involves an appropriate mix of participating organisations in terms of profile.;

the project involves newcomers and less experienced organisations to the Action;

the proposed allocation of tasks demonstrates the commitment and active contribution of all participating organisations;

the proposal includes effective mechanisms for coordination and communication between the participating organisations;

Impact (maximum score 20 points)

The extent to which:

the project proposal includes concrete and logical steps to integrate the project results in the regular work of participating organisation;

the project has the potential to positively impact its participants and participating organisations, as well as the wider community;

the project proposal includes an appropriate way to evaluate the project outcomes;

the project proposal includes concrete and effective steps to make the results of the project known within the participating organisations, to share the results with other organisations and the public, and to publicly acknowledge the European Union funding.

To be considered for funding, proposals must score at least 60 points. Furthermore, they must score at least half of the maximum score points in each of the categories of award criteria mentioned above (i.e. minimum 15 points for the categories "relevance of the project" and "quality of the project design and implementation"; 10 points for the categories "quality of the partnership and the cooperation arrangements" and "impact").

In cases where two or more applications have received the same total score (ex aequo cases), priority will be given to highest scores for "relevance of the project" and then "impact".

What are the funding rules?

The proposed funding model consists of a menu of two possible lump sums, corresponding to the total grant amount for the project. Applicants will choose between the two pre-defined amounts according to the activities they want to undertake and the results they want to achieve:
Single lump sum amounts:
When planning their projects, the applicant organisations - together with their project partners - will need to choose the single lump sum amount more appropriate to cover the costs of their projects, based on their needs and objectives. If the project is selected for funding, the requested lump sum amount becomes the overall grant amount.

Proposals must describe the activities that applicants commit to carry out with the lump sum amount requested and must satisfy the principles of economy, efficiency and effectiveness.

The choice of the lump sum amount to be requested should be based on the applicant's own estimate for the overall cost of the project. Starting from this estimate, applicants must choose the amount that suits best their needs while ensuring an efficient use of the funds and the respect of the co-financing principle (i.e. project budgets are expected to be complemented with other funding sources, therefore the expected overall cost of the project shall be higher than the fixed lump sum amount requested).

In case of doubts between two amounts, applicants can: a) reduce the cost of their project, for instance by finding more cost-effective ways to achieve similar results or by adapting the number/scale of the project activities to the budget; b) increase the scale of their project, for instance by aiming to reaching more participants with their activities, increasing the number of activities or producing additional project outputs.

The adequacy of the number, scope and complexity of the proposed project activities to the amount requested, together with their relevance for the project objectives, will be important elements of the quality assessment, in line with the award criteria described above.

Requirements

Considering that small-scale partnerships are an instrument for inclusion and access of newcomers and less experienced organisations to the programme, the level of information required to apply for a grant under this action will be simple, while ensuring compliance with EU Financial Regulation rules. Therefore, the project description shall include:

Objectives

Proposed activities

Expected results

Objectives, activities and intended results must be clearly linked to each other and presented in a coherent way. Applications shall also include a general project timeline with the expected date for completion of the main activities.

Applicants should provide sufficient information on the budget plan so that evaluators can assess the appropriateness of each activity, as well as the coherence of each activity with the other ones.

The project budget must list the planned project activities and indicate the portion of the grant allocated to each activity.

Subcontracting of services is allowed as long as it does not cover core activities on which the achievement of the objectives of the action directly depends. In such cases, the amount budgeted for subcontracting must be included in the description of the activities covered by the subcontract.

Payment of the grant

The condition for the full payment of the grant is the completion of all the activities in line with the quality criteria described in the application. In case one or more activities are not completed, partially completed or assessed as unsatisfactory in the quality assessment, appropriate reductions of the grant amount may be applied

at final report stage in cases of poor, partial or late implementation by not accepting single activities or by reducing the overall amount by a flat-rate percentage.

The final report assessment is based on the detailed descriptions of each activity carried out, information showing the level of achievement of the project objectives stated in the application, the quality of project results uploaded in the Erasmus+ Project Results Platform and a self-assessment of the partner organisations.

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New working schedules due to extreme temperatures

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It was raining again on Monday in Oslo, where no snow has fallen in January for the first time since measurements began 83 years ago. In the mountains of Stryn, farther to the north, cattle were released from their barns to graze on green grass. Something is clearly wrong when winter seems to have disappeared.
"I keep waiting for winter to come, but it hasn't," Ketil Isaksen, a researcher at the state Meteorologic Institute in Oslo told news bureau NTB on January 20. A week later, it still hasn't, and he's worried, not just for the ski season that's being ruined in many areas around southern Norway. Everything from the permafrost on Svalbard to Norway's flora and fauna north to south is under threat.

At the highest elevations elsewhere in the southern part of Norway, herds of hungry wild reindeer have been heading down to inhabited areas this month to find food. Mild daytime temperatures where they normally roam above timberline have melted snow that fell earlier, and when it freezes at night, the reindeer are unable to kick through the ice that forms on top the snow. Rain has also fallen on snow at high elevations this month, creating more ice that's forced endangered reindeer from the mountains of Bykle, for example, down to a regional ski center at Hovden.

Reindeer at risk
That's prompted local officials to close off groomed ski trails in areas where snow is still soft, so that the reindeed can graze there undisturbed instead. Local residents and those with hytter (cabins) in the area have also been ordered to keep their dogs on a leash while outdoors, so the dogs don't spook or attack the reindeer.

"I haven't seen conditions like this in the more than 30 years I've been in Hovden," Bykle Mayor Jon Rolf Næss told Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) on Sunday. "If this (the mild weather) continues, I fear the consequences."

Local newspaper Agder reports that extraordinary leash and løype closures are also in effect at Sirdal in Agder County, which extends from the mountains down to the southern coast of Norway. "We hope (the measures) will be respected, to protect the reindeer," Sven Sandvik of Sirdal Kommune told the paper. He said wild reindeer herds had been seen near large local hytte communities.

In the Oslo area, the sheer lack of snow is dramatically changing lifestyles and recreational pursuits. Many Norwegians become downright grumpy when they can't just head outdoors for a long day of cross-country skiing at no expense. Local ski association Skiforeningen has faced major challenges trying to prepare ski trails in the hills that surround the Norwegian capital. The association also wants to maintain ski school for youngsters and carry out traditional ski races. Newspaper Aftenposten reported already last fall, however, how the number of ski days based on snow measurements at Bjørnholt in Nordmarka have fallen from 136 in the period from 1961 to 1990, to just 94 in the current period that runs from 1991 to 2020.

"The tendency is clear: Autumn is longer and spring comes earlier," retired meteorologist Gustav Bjørbæk told Aftenposten.

Researchers have noted that some areas of the country are warming up much faster than others. While Southern Norway is craving snow, Northern Norway has been battling blizzards and mounds of snow for months. NRK reported nearly a 50-degree temperature difference between Kautokeino in Finnmark on Monday and Tafjord in Møre og Romsdal. Thermometers sunk to minus-37C in Kautokeino while Tafjord residents woke up to +10C. Finnmark, though, has also experienced some remarkably warm summers of late, along with landslides caused by heavy rain.

Mild temperatures and heavy rain also set off more landslides around Southern Norway over the weekend, isolating several communities like Sør-Eitran in Trøndelag. The ground and local hillsides are normally frozen solid and covered with snow and ice at this time of year. Now the ground is highly unstable. State meterologists predict that 100 towns and cities in Norway will set high temperature records this month.

'Extremely alarming'
"We should have had around 25 centimeters of snow here," Kristian Gislefoss told NRK as he stood outdoors on green grass outside the Meteorologic Institute at Blindern in Oslo this past weekend. "But there's nothing. This is an extremely alarming January, with so many places around the country poised to set (high) temperature records with the mild weather."

The average temperature in Oslo so far this month has been 2.9C (38F), while "normal" is minus-4.3C (24.2F). In Bergen it's been 5.6C, compared to 1.3C on average. Even in the northern city of Tromsø, which has recorded lots of snow this winter, temperatures are still much warmer than ususal: -o.3C instead of the normal -4.4C. Trondheim has been 6.4 degrees warmer than usual in January: 3.4C instead of -3C.

Then there are the remarkable oddities like the 19C (66.2F) recorded at Sunndalsøra in the county of Møre og Romsdal on January 2. Local residents were outdoors in shorts, and warm winter follows an unusually hot summer. Norway is now threatened by heat waves and drought, along with sudden, torrential rain and less snow. Bird counts have fallen, flowers can shoot up but then risk being frozen if cold weather does return.

"For plant life, this can have grave consequences," Gislefoss said. As the days get noticeably longer, it has seemed like spring, but it's not and shouldn't be.

Maria Sand, a researcher at the Cicero Center for Internatioanl Climate Research in Norway, said it's "frightening" how quickly climate change has been setting in. She points to two main reasons why January has been so mild: Climate change and "natural" variables. "On all the days when temperatures have been just over the freezing point, it has rained," Sand told NRK. "Without climate change, it would have snowed."

Winter one month shorter
She notes that there also were several "green winters" in the 1980s, and last year there was lots of snow in Oslo. Norway is also prone to variable weather, she said, "but when we study it all over a longer period, the winters have become a month shorter and two degrees warmer than they were in the 1960s." She worries about the effect on flora and fauna. In addition to the wild reindeer's problems, "the queen bee can wake up after the flowers have blossomed." An earlier spring can cause more problems.

Zoologist Petter Bøckman at the University of Oslo warned that both animals and humans can be plagued to a much higher degree by the brown snails that can destroy gardens, ticks that can cause disease and pesty flies, while other insects can die out.

There's no question that climate change is arguably the biggest topic of conversation in Norway at present, and even climate skeptics and politicians who have fought hard to drill for more oil and tax car use less are begrudgingly admitting that climate change is real. All of Norway's parties now address climate change on their political platforms, but tackle it from albeit different angles. Even the fiercest critics of political inaction on climate change, like Anja Bakken Riise of Framtiden i våre hender (The Future in our Hands), now see a "green wind blowing over the government."

Asked whether she agrees, Norway's new Oil & Energy Minister Tina Bru from the Conservative Party told newspaper Aftenposten that she thinks "there's been a general increase in climate consciousness, and increasing engagement across all the political parties."

That can be encouraging to researchers like Maria Sand at Cicero, who work with climate change every day: "It's not something that will happen in the future. It's happening now."
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It was raining again on Monday in Oslo, where no snow has fallen in January for the first time since measurements began 83 years ago. In the mountains of Stryn, farther to the north, cattle were released from their barns to graze on green grass. Something is clearly wrong when winter seems to have disappeared.

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Thumbs up for more oil from Norway, climate advocates wail - Norway’s News in English — www.newsinenglish.no

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The Norwegian government defied noisy climate and environmental advocates outside a major oil industry seminar in Sandefjord on Tuesday, by handing out 62 more oil and gas licenses in the North Sea and its offshore Arctic areas. Critics quickly branded the licenses as a sign of more Norwegian hypocrisy and disregard for international efforts to […]

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Conflicts between "green power" and indigenous rights in Norway

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Conflicts between "green power" and indigenous rights in Norway

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Wind turbines’ future still up in the air - Norway’s News in English — www.newsinenglish.no

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Sami and environmental activists ended their blockades of several Norwegian government ministries on Friday, after securing official promises that huge turbines generating wind power on the Fosen Peninsula will no longer be allowed to violate their human rights to herd reindeer in the area. The power itself is valuable and needed, though, and no one […]

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‘Like doomsday’: why have salmon deserted Norway’s rivers – and will they ever return?

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North Atlantic populations are at a historic low, and this year 33 of the country’s rivers were closed during the fishing season as salmon farming and the climate crisis threaten the fish’s future

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El clima en España ha cambiado. Hay lluvias torrenciales con más frecuencia, pero al mismo tiempo también se registra una mayor sequía en todo el país.

La variabilidad de las precipitaciones se refiere a la desigualdad en el momento y la cantidad de lluvia. Una mayor variabilidad significa que las precipitaciones se distribuyen de manera más desigual a lo largo del tiempo, lo que da lugar a períodos húmedos más húmedos y períodos secos más secos. Por ejemplo, algunos lugares pueden recibir la lluvia de un año en tan solo unos días, tener largos períodos secos seguidos de fuertes lluvias o alternar rápidamente entre sequías e inundaciones.

España y su preocupante sequía

En agosto, los ciudadanos de la Costa Blanca hicieron cola para conseguir agua embotellada, ya que una grave sequía hizo que el agua del grifo no fuera potable. Los veranos más calurosos y el rápido crecimiento del sector turístico están agravando el problema.

La falta de lluvias en la provincia de Alicante ha provocado una grave sequía en la zona. El año pasado, Reuters señalaba que la zona recibió sólo la mitad de las precipitaciones normales y que hasta el 22 de agosto sólo se había registrado un 10% de la media.

A finales de marzo, la Confederación Hidrográfica del Júcar declaró una "situación excepcional de sequía extraordinaria" para partes de la provincia de Alicante.

La afluencia masiva de turistas durante el verano es parte del problema, lo que pone a prueba el suministro de agua del país. Un informe de CaixaBank Research señaló que se prevé que el sector turístico español siga creciendo rápidamente este año, con un aumento del PIB relacionado con el turismo del 5%. Según el Instituto Nacional de Estadística, la comarca de la Marina Alta tiene casi 38.000 piscinas, es decir, aproximadamente una piscina por cada cinco personas.

Según Climate Central, el "calor provocado por el cambio climático "está afectando al Mediterráneo. En junio y julio, más de 60 millones de personas de la región sufrieron un calor abrasador durante 20 días o más, una probabilidad al menos cinco veces mayor debido al cambio climático.

¿Por qué es preocupante la sequía en España?

Algunas localidades afectadas por la sequía han declarado que el agua del grifo no es apta para el consumo humano. Cuando los niveles de agua bajan, la salinidad aumenta porque el agua del mar tiene espacio para filtrarse en los suministros de agua. La Costa Blanca tuvo que establecer puntos de distribución de agua embotellada para satisfacer las necesidades básicas de sus habitantes.

Las olas de calor y la sequía también hacen subir los precios de los alimentos básicos populares y pueden amenazar la seguridad alimentaria. Las condiciones de sequía también son más propicias para los incendios forestales, y en España se produjeron grandes incendios durante una ola de calor en julio.

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Sequía en España: estas ciudades están en 'emergencia climática'

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Algunas ciudades españolas afectadas por la sequía han declarado que el agua del grifo no es apta para el consumo humano

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¿Cómo afecta el cambio climático en las enfermedades infecciosas y cuál es el impacto en nuestra salud?

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El cambio climático es un fenómeno mundial que está influyendo, entre otros aspectos, en la aparición, distribución y control de enfermedades infecciosas que impactan en nuestras vidas, ya que acontecimientos como la subida de las temperaturas, las fuertes lluvias o las inundaciones propician un aumento de su capacidad de transmisión. Es por eso que la doctora Judit Calpe, especialista en

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Los científicos esperan un gran aumento de muertes relacionadas con el calor: una ciudad de España, en la que más fallecimientos habrá de Europa

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Nuevos datos científicos hacen saltar todas las alarmas: casi 300.000 muertos en esta ciudad española