Scientists related to the marine world consider that the sea will be key in guaranteeing world food security and that protection of the natural environment must be combined with “sustainable” economic activity if a real impact is to be generated.

The marine biologist and executive director of Fundación MERI (Melimoyu Ecosystem Research Institute), Sonia Español-Jiménez, believes that the sea can be key in guaranteeing world food security “if it is done well” and “the oceans are once again given role it has” in the natural ecosystem.

Español-Jiménez stressed that it is necessary to “reconcile the two worlds” that represent the protection of marine ecosystems and the economic activity that takes place in them.

The director of the ocean team of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), Minna Epps, also expressed herself in this direction, who put on the table that the blue economy is “the fastest growing” and, therefore, it is essential to “ensure that it is sustainable”.

“You have to think about economic sustainability, not just protection. We must work together”, he remarked in reference to the economic sectors and public institutions that are trying to take a step forward in the management of the sea. “We must protect together, plan together and learn together,” he said..

In this regard, the marketing director of Makro Spain, Chema León, also spoke, who said that the future lies in aquaculture and specifically for quality.

Thus, he came to indicate that at a certain point “there will be no other fish” on the consumer's table than that of aquaculture and that, for this reason, it is necessary to begin to value it. “It's a wonderful product and we'll get our peers to breathe,” he said..

The Cabildo de Tenerife, for its part, through Agustín Espinosa, a technician from the island's livestock and fishing service, highlighted that one of its priorities is to encourage the consumption of local products due to its double positive aspect: “reducing the carbon footprint” and contribute to “local economies”.

Another of the elements that the Cabildo focuses on is to diversify the consumption of species so that the pressure does not focus so much on some, such as tuna. Therefore, it advocates valuing species such as the salema or the striped burrito.

The commercial and marketing director of Aquanaria, Pedro Sánchez, stressed that advocating for quality means treating animals better and producing the least possible impact.

In fact, he explained that his environmental surveillance plan certifies that the fact that they operate in open water makes “the impact minimal.”.

Now “it seems logical” that treating animals well affects the quality of the product and its taste, but this “was not applied before”. “We are clear that one thing is to achieve volume and another is quality,” he concluded.

Offshore wind turbines, pending analysis of their impact

The MERI Foundation scientist also explained that offshore wind turbines still need to be fully understood about their impact on the ecosystem, although she said she understands that they do cause noise damage.

So that citizens understand what we sometimes turn the sea into with our activities, Español-Jiménez said that it is “like being in a disco for us” but the size “of a radius of 1,000 kilometers”, which makes communication difficult for some species of animals and their activity of capturing food.

The scientist concluded that the world is in a situation of “no return” when it comes to protecting the environment and especially the marine environment. “If we continue like this, if we don't change our way of production, 1.5 out of every 4 species will go extinct in the coming decades. We have to get our act together because we're going too late,” he said.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and the Natural Environment has declared Fire Alert 4 –the highest level– in Mallorca and Menorca, for which reason the authorizations to use fire in any open space are suspended, as well as pyrotechnic material or of machinery or equipment that can generate deflagration, sparks or electrical discharges.

Likewise, the department has also activated the Fire Alert 3 for Ibiza and Formentera, a situation that “is expected to be common in the coming days, even weeks, especially while this episode of extreme temperatures lasts”, added the Ministry in a statement.

The regulations for the use of fire have recently been updated to adapt it to state regulations and, on the website alertafoc.caib.es, the maps with the alert levels for meteorological risk of forest fires on the different islands are published daily, according to with the information and notices published by the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) and the danger analysis carried out by the Forest Management Service and the Forest Fire Communications Center. In Fire Alert 2, the meteorological risk of forest fire becomes moderate or high, according to Aemet, and without warnings for adverse meteorological phenomena.

Fire Alert 3 involves the formal activation of warnings due to adverse meteorological phenomena –winds, maximum temperatures, heat waves or storms–, regardless of Aemet's risk of forest fire, or when unique circumstances arise based on the danger analysis.

Lastly, Fire Alert 4 occurs with a very high or extreme meteorological risk of forest fire, or when unique circumstances occur based on the hazard analysis, regardless of the existence of warnings for adverse meteorological phenomena applicable to the alert level..

The Government has approved this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers the reform of Royal Decree 1051/2013, promoted by the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, which increases aid to dependency and hours of home help, among other improvements. Specifically, the economic benefits for care in the family environment will increase by 17.65%, a measure that will affect 540,000 people. Thus, for grade I, the maximum monthly amount increases from 153 to 180 euros; for grade II, from 268.79 to 315.9, and for grade III, from 387.64 to 455.4.

On the other hand, aid linked to the service generally increased by 4.5%. In addition, in the case of the economic benefit linked to the residential care service, the maximum amount of grade II will be equated to that corresponding to grade III and in the economic benefit linked to the day center service, the maximum amount of the grade I to that corresponding to grade II, since the prices of said services are the same or very similar. This measure will affect almost 200,000 people.

In this way, for grade I, the maximum amount will go from 300 to 313.50 euros per month in general –313.50 for economic benefit linked to the residential care service (SAR) and 445.30 for the benefit linked to the center of day (SCD)–; for grade II, it increases from 426.12 to 445.30 euros –747.25 for SAR and 445.30 for SCD– and for grade III, from 715.07 to 747.25 euros.

Likewise, the economic benefits for personal assistance are increased by 4.5% and the amount of grade II is equal to that corresponding to grade III. This measure will affect almost 10,000 people. Thus, in grade I, the maximum monthly amount goes from 300 to 313.50; in grade II, from 426.12 to 747.25, and in grade III, from 715.07 to 747.25.

The reform also establishes minimum amounts that until now were not contemplated in state regulations. Currently, there are more than 60,000 people with economic benefits who receive less than 100 euros per month and of these, close to half receive less than 50 euros per month. Therefore, from now on, it is proposed to establish the following minimum amounts: 100 euros for grade I, 150 euros for grade II and 200 euros for grade III.

On the other hand, the hourly intensity of home help will be extended, since, according to the Ministry, currently, “the intensities in many cases do not offer a sufficient response to people in a situation of dependency”. Specifically, for grade I, it will go from a maximum of 20 hours to between 20 and 37 hours; in grade II, until now they could receive between 21 and 45 hours and now they may have between 38 and 64 hours, and in grade III, before they could access between 46 and 70 hours and now, between 65 and 94.

This measure will be applied progressively so that the new hourly intensities will apply to cases that enter the system with the Individual Care Program of the Home Help Service (PIA of SAD) from the entry into force of the new royal decree. For cases with previous SAD AIP, it is proposed to maintain the planned intensity unless the case is reviewed.. It is estimated that this measure would affect some 30,000 people by the end of 2023.

The last runner injured in the running of the bulls during the past Sanfermines who remained admitted to the University Hospital of Navarra has been discharged this Tuesday.

This is GEL, a 54-year-old resident of Pozuelo de Alarcón (Madrid Community). It entered on July 14, after the last running of the bulls of the festivities, led by bulls from Miura.

The runner presented right chest trauma with multiple rib fractures, anterior pneumothorax, and right lung contusion. He has evolved favorably until this Tuesday he was discharged.

If you worry Vox, vote PP. If Vox does not attend the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (because the Electoral Board has not allowed it) and neither does Ana Oramas, white and bottled, Alberto Núñez Feijóo's horoscope has taken note of both absences, and dictates that trip to the Canary Islands a few days before the day of reflection. Virgo, go to the Islands and you will be right —it could be read—. His astral charts, and the data handled by his team, have encouraged the PP candidate to travel to the Canary Islands three days before the end of the electoral campaign. It's not a minor decision. When you are in the final stretch, every minute counts, every kilometer on a candidate's agenda triggers its value on the stock market.. Feijóo knows that the Islands are a place that forces you to leave the road for a good handful of hours. Even so, his team has decided to incorporate two rallies in the archipelago coinciding with the moment in which each phrase, image, city or gesture can end up facilitating or hindering the race towards Moncloa.

The leader of the PP will land on the Islands in just twenty-four hours because he knows that a good handful of seats are at stake – where not, some will say, unaware that Vox was unable to formalize its candidacy for Congress for the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife when it occurred from a low part of its members—. The Electoral Board rejected the appeals of those of Santiago Abascal in the first week of July and left Vox without two probable seats (or some more, who knows), acts that Feijóo intends to reinforce his alleged sufficient majority —parliamentarians who, with the map on the table, he will have to dispute his common-law partner in the archipelago, Coalición Canaria—.

There is more. Vox will not be the only one absent in the battle that on Sunday will be waged by the options that, in the Islands, the electorate finds in the background on the right. The PP will not have to deal with Ana Oramas either, the deputy with the most knowledge, valuation and pull in the archipelago. Oramas (CC) decided months ago to end his long period in Parliament to return to regional politics. The person who has been the spokesman for the Coalition in Congress has changed the seat in Carrera de San Jerónimo for the recently released vice-presidency of the Canary Islands Parliament, which, in his case, draws a step to one side —low profile that Oramas announced a few years ago months-.

Although it will not play to an empty door (the Coalition is doing the rest these days, with the aim of not losing its historic presence in the Congress of Deputies), without Vox and without Ana Oramas on the other side of the network, the PP counts in the Islands with two match balls that Feijóo wants to add to his cause. Coalition and PP are electoral roommates. Depending on whether the elections are local or national, some and others lead, for or against, it depends, a transfer of votes. At the municipal, insular or regional levels Coalición tends to grow driven by its powerful organization and implementation on the ground. However, when the call is to Congress and the Senate, a good part of those who vote for CC in the local scene change the Coalition ballot for that of the PP. Feijóo knows (or has been told). Hence, playing the last set of the match these days, he opens a gap in his peninsular agenda to plant himself in the Canary Islands. The popular candidate wants to shore up the expectations of his lists and, above all, he aspires to win the two seats that Vox would have obtained if he could run. If, already involved in the task, the play-off gives you any joy in the Coalition fishing ground, the trip will have been well worth it for those who during these last days of the campaign will travel the country evangelizing about the need to concentrate the center-right vote —even the one that moves to the right of the right—in the PP.

If you are concerned about Vox voting PP, it is the slogan that the popular ones —if not explicitly, yes with that intention— are sown in this last breath of the campaign. Sánchez will not appear in the Canary Islands these days. Feijóo will. Symptoms. signs. Tracks. With the end of the campaign flying over them, the candidates turn to those territories where they have time to scratch something else, where they dance some acts of deputy that can finally be decisive to govern. The PP is known in a sweet moment in the archipelago. This last weekend the popular ones have solemnized their entry into the autonomous government, thus culminating weeks of glory with the constitution of many town halls and councils where they are part of the government majorities. The change of the change that the CC and PP have consummated — thus concluding the change that the Socialists announced four years ago now — has the popular ones led by Manuel Domínguez, since last Saturday vice president of the regional Executive, trading upwards.

Both in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and in Las Palmas, a match is being played that seventy-two hours from the end of the campaign is still open, which is why the presence of Alberto Núñez Feijóo in the archipelago is not surprising —nor, sensu contrario, the non-appearance of Pedro Sanchez—. The former president has conditioned an abstention from the PSOE to facilitate the hypothetical formation of a PP government (monocolor, without Vox) on the popular undoing the executives where the socialists won, as is the case of the Canary Islands.

Domínguez, president of the PP in the Islands, has already responded that if Sánchez had answered Feijóo in the islands, he would govern the most voted list. After the regional elections, Feijóo told me not to open any type of negotiation in the Canary Islands until Sánchez answered and told him if he accepted that the list with the most votes should govern —Domínguez has recounted these days—. ides of july. Episodes written on the ice bar that are already too far behind on the calendar. Now what it comes down to, in the eyes of the PP, is to capture the seats that Vox has left in no man's land in the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife; and, if the task goes well for them, also take advantage of the fact that Ana Oramas does not show up to enter the Coalition fishing ground. The horoscope does not say so (or perhaps it does), it is suggested by those who, with calculators in hand, advise the PP candidate and see the Canary Islands as one of the most electorally fertile territories in the final stretch of the campaign.

Anti-fascism is a movement that has been imprisoned, beaten and, in many cases, posed a risk of dying or ending up in exile.. That was, a risk. But now, anti-fascism is not a risk: it is a prize that is awarded to a group. It is a medal that they wear without any danger. This is how they believe it, and how well they develop it, Juan Soto Ivars and Alberto Olmos.

Because this movement is the central theme on which the new episode of Lo más odiado revolves, the podcast of El Confidencial in which Olmos and Soto Ivars analyze current events and which you can listen to for free by clicking here or on Ivoox, Spotify and Apple Podcast.

“People who, for example, define themselves at first as anti-fascist on their Twitter account, do you think that everyone who doesn't post it is already a fascist?”; wonders elms. “It's like those who brag about being in favor of human rights. There is a consensus, and still is, that fascism is bad. Except for four Falangists, the rest of the people are anti-fascist,” explains Soto.

You can listen to all the episodes of The Most Hated by clicking here or on Ivoox, Spotify and Apple Podcast.

The plenary session of the Madrid City Council approved on Monday the new urban regulations for the city. The text went ahead thanks to the absolute majority of the PP, while Vox abstained and the PSOE and Más Madrid voted against. Before it enters into force, it must be approved by the Community of Madrid in the Governing Council within a maximum period of four months.. And although the text dedicates a section to the controversial ghost kitchens, the current moratorium that restricts their proliferation will end in August. In other words, from the end of said period until the new regulations come into force, there will be a possible vacuum that terrifies the residents.

“We know what is going to happen,” says Esther Lomas, spokesperson for the Platform for People Affected by Ghost Kitchens in Madrid. A few months ago they met with the City Council activities agency. They had a multitude of applications for licenses frozen by a restrictive moratorium that was approved by the boom of these dark kitchens. “Now, companies just have to get a responsible declaration and after August 16 [when the moratorium ends] they will open their doors,” he says.. This neighbor began an open war against kitchens as a result of the increase in these places in her neighborhood, Imperial. The residents filed a joint complaint, but are still awaiting trial.

In 2020, these stores began to multiply. It was then that the residents organized themselves, created an association and took to the streets. They did not want this type of business near their homes for various reasons. Smells, noise, traffic and movement of riders. There was no regulatory framework for this type of business. On Zabaleta street alone, in the Prosperidad neighborhood, there are 38 of these kitchens. The moratorium that was put in place to alleviate its proliferation will end on August 16, 2023.

From the Urban Planning area of the City Council they assure that the consistory has three months to approve or reject an activity license, so they do not consider that this could be an inconvenience. It is, in the words of delegate Borja Carabante, a “necessary, essential and urgent” reform. What the residents fear is that they will give the go-ahead to all those that are already pending in the weeks in which the Community of Madrid takes time to approve the new urban plan.

This new text is a “transitory regulation that will allow us to work on a new General Plan to cement future urban planning,” said Carabante.. And it specifies that ghost kitchens should be prioritized in industrial areas and with a maximum of eight premises every 350 square meters.. In addition, they must have waiting and loading and unloading areas to avoid inconvenience.

Is this enough? For affected residents, no. Santiago Calle, also a spokesperson for the Platform, explains that none of his proposals have been accepted.. “We asked that the large kitchens be in industrial estates, that there could only be four for every 350 meters and that they be half a kilometer from schools, health centers and sports centers,” he says.. None of this has gone ahead. Calle argues that the ideal would be for licenses not to be approved until the Community of Madrid approves the new text.

The left insists that these rules only benefit “them”, and Rita Maestre's team will even take the text to court for alleged failures in its processing. However, the mayor declared shortly after that said complaint did not concern him because all the procedures have been carried out correctly. The plan was not approved in the previous legislature due to the rejection of Vox. This time, they justified their abstention by arguing that they did so out of “responsibility”, since the regulations incorporate “the religion of the 2030 Agenda”.

Dark marketing in advertising jargon is a trend that focuses on creating ultra-segmented audiences to which to send very specific messages. The objective is not to reach many but to those who are of interest to a brand. In the world of political science, it is translated as “black campaign” and the trait is added that it is used to knock down the adversary, circulating negative slogans in these groups who want to mobilize. Lowering the term to partisan contention leads to a “dirty war”. Six days before the elections and with all the polls against it, except for the CIS of Félix Tezanos, in Moncloa the theory has been imposed that the only possible way between now and 23-J to try to cut votes for Alberto Núñez Feijóo is cast doubt on his honor. “We are going to put him in a hive of bees”, warn socialist sources, who advance that Pedro Sánchez has an “atomic bomb” to knock out his rival and that he will foreseeably use it in the debate that will be held tomorrow on RTVE, taking advantage of the absence of the PP leader. The secrecy with which the preparation of the files for this meeting is carried out clashes with those images that the PSOE posted on social networks of Sánchez with his team working to face Feijóo in Atresmedia.

Although just a week ago, for Monclovite strategists a century has passed. Since the televised defeat, everything changed. If until then the chief of staff, Óscar López, had defended a positive campaign in which to sell the management and boost Sánchez's presidential profile, now he embraces the road map of those known as the Migueles, the journalist José Miguel Contreras and the former Secretary of State for Communication, Miguel Barroso, in the period of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Both, with great influence on the president since the departure of Iván Redondo, are experts in political strategy.

As El Confidencial has already published, the Migueles have been advising the use of the photograph of Feijóo on a yacht with the drug trafficker Marcial Dorado as an “electoral weapon”.. Until yesterday, it had not been done. It was Vice President Teresa Ribera who opened the ban by asking the PP candidate why he did not attend the debate with four: “What does he have to hide? A drug trafficker on a yacht?”. It remains to be seen how Sánchez will pick up the ball and how far he will go to discredit the rival. The mission is to “condition the week” and take the initiative in the death throes of the campaign.

At the base of this approach is undermining the credibility of the PP candidate. From face to face, the socialists have focused on promoting Feijóo's image of a “liar”. The ministers have coined all kinds of expressions, such as “cascade of lies”, “lie like a scoundrel”, “lie cynically”, “smear with lies from minute one”. In parallel, this message has been replicated on social networks as a fundamental part of his “black campaign”. It was Zapatero who set the tone in the Al Rojo Vivo interview, by changing the prey to beating. He pointed out that the danger for Spain was not that Vox was part of a future government, but that the risk was that the PP governed.

The play is risky. In sectors of the party, there are many doubts and there is even open talk that it is a symptom of “desperation” that could end up generating a “boomerang effect” that translates into more votes for Feijóo. That the undecided opt for the popular one when perceiving the attack as “crude”, they insist from the baronies, where they consider that if they have an “atomic bomb” against the PP candidate, they should have used it before. In the territories, there is distrust and they declare themselves “expectant” to see if finally “there is something more” than the photograph of the yacht, which they consider “amortized”, since it was already used against Feijóo in the Galician elections and has added four majorities absolute, argue the same sources.

In private, even those close to Sánchez assume that it is “impossible” to win, but they cling to the fact that the PP “die of success” and does not achieve an absolute majority with Vox by a few seats: “If they remain at 173-175, it will be a pyrrhic victory”. In the analysis, it is that Santiago Abascal is not a “great speaker”, so the president will have “easy” to give him all the blows that Feijóo did not receive or will receive. The “involutionist” policies that they propose where they are in coalition with the PP, such as in the Valencian Community, will be ugly. Wearing down the extreme right not only harms Feijóo, for a hypothetical sum, but also helps Yolanda Díaz to position herself as the third force in her struggle with Vox. For the moment, those of Abascal have more options, if the published surveys are attended, to be on the podium. The Galician woman was precisely the first to rescue the image of Feijóo together with Marcial Dorado, as she did when she was in the opposition in the Galician Parliament.

In Genoa, they have been aware since Feijóo landed in Madrid that this moment was going to come. Sources from the national leadership assure that they will “ignore” this type of attack, which they attribute to the poor expectations of the PSOE, which forces it to display a photograph from 30 years ago.. They are not afraid that they could discover a Feijóo scandal, because “they have investigated him from above and below since he has been in politics”. They defend that he is a “clean politician”. In the party, there are more nerves, not because of distrust of the leader, but because “they are going to play very dirty” and remember that they already tried to sow doubts with the declaration of assets in the Senate. The countdown is going to be intense.

The last festival of San Juan served to debut on the market a new concept of fireworks based on the soundless firecracker. Without any shame, it costs more and more to have it, its clever promoters disseminated their proposal with the semantic patches that serve for any absurdity: inclusiveness, responsibility and sustainability. Foolishness is like the universe expanding to infinity. But the truth is that you can already buy and pay at the price of a firecracker what is not, simply because it does not make noise.

Those who should have gone through the booth where such an aberration was sold were the people of the PSOE and Sumar. And they took as a false firecracker the photo of Alberto Núñez Feijóo in the company of the drug trafficker Marcial Dorado aboard the latter's boat taken 28 years ago.

If the comeback that the left supposedly needs has to pivot on that snapshot, Feijóo can sleep soundly until Sunday.

And this photograph has been used repeatedly since 2010, when El País presented it exclusively, with no other effect than to consolidate the absolute majority of the popular candidate in Galicia and his upward political trajectory.. The penultimate time that the PSOE resorted to this resource was last March, in the middle of the debate on the law of only yes is yes, when Pedro Sánchez resorted to the drug dealer in the Senate in the exchange of shifts with Feijóo. Yesterday it was the turn of Teresa Ribera, the vice president of Ecological Transition, to do the same.. And the day before it had been Yolanda Díaz. As said, a firecracker that does not make noise. Only those who throw it away think they hear it.

The effort of the parties and the media to warm up the last days of the campaign is falling on deaf ears. Indolence wins by a landslide. We are supposedly in the decisive stretch and this has rather taken the air of the garbage minutes of a basketball game.

The efforts of journalism to check the affirmations of the candidates —yesterday on TVE Feijóo was caught in a resignation with pensions and automatically all the leftist sensitive press fanned the flame of the lying candidate— are laudable, especially if they are practiced with all the candidates, but they are not going to change the history of this campaign.

The fish is sold and only the remains and trash remain on the marble stone. While all this is happening, Feijóo is already photographing himself with views of Moncloa and proposing a collection of State pacts. One in Boston and the other in San Francisco. There has not been a campaign in Spain as blurred as this one.

We have the debate at three in the morning on TVE, with the absence of Alberto Núñez Feijóo, if there is not a last-minute rectification from the popular strategists, and little else. Sánchez, Díaz and Abascal will make the great absentee the main protagonist of the evening. Does the sit-in of its candidate favor or harm the PP? Abascal will have the opportunity to defend the importance of voting for Vox to tie the PP short and force it to practice the frontism from which Feijóo says he wants to escape. And the Sánchez-Díaz duet will have one last bullet to call the mobilization of the left. The President of the Government will also try to defend his voting border with the PP, but he must at the same time try to prevent Sumar's candidate from eating his toast on the left. But what is certain is that there will be no before and after..

The problem with this canicular campaign, which is the only thing that can be strictly analyzed at this moment, is that all of Spain, including the supposed losers, has been living for days in a future in which the right wing already governs.. In this imaginary, Feijóo is already at Moncloa and Pedro Sánchez is updating his CV on LinkedIn. Only the fine print arouses some interest, because it is unknown: the PP alone or in company? Bildu or the PNV at the head of Basque nationalism? How far back will Catalan sovereignty go? What will be the level of resistance of the PSOE? ? Where will Yolanda Díaz's project set the starting bar?

Regarding the big question — who will be president? — we are experiencing more of a waiting period than a campaign. Although later the things that are going to happen confirm or not this scenario that is presented as indisputable. It is this mantle of irreversibility of popular victory that has killed the campaign and makes any firecracker soundproof, like the ones that were sold in Barcelona on the eve of San Juan. And so it will presumably be until Sunday, when the polls confirm or deny what we already believe guessed..