Fire risk map

Map of fire risk in Spain

Spain must face more than 16 thousand fires every year. Now, they create a fire risk map where they can see which community is the most affected.

Water quality in Europe is even worse than expected

The Water Framework Directive proposes to the European Union a substantial improvement in the quality of fresh water by 2015. To this day this objective is far from being fulfilled, the toxic levels in aqueous bodies are still extremely high.

Geothermal energy. Greenhouses and their application in agriculture

Geothermal energy is that energy that can be obtained by taking advantage of the internal heat of the Earth. This heat is due to several factors, its own remaining heat, the geothermal gradient (increase in temperature with depth) and radiogenic heat (decay of radiogenic isotopes), among others.