Intemperie is a magazine dedicated to everything and anything that can be done outside the house. Once outside, we’re not too interested in boundaries: we let our imagination take us, and write about it alongside our video content. Each and every text and video we post is original, straight from our hobbies, curiosity, and thirst … Continue reading Presentation
The Idol of Peñatu
The gods were always mad. The truth is, we never paid them much attention until monotheisms were imposed on us. All those vengeful, furious, processional, omnipotent, bearded gods. The gods we liked took the form of a bison, of the sun, of a tuna, of a salmon, of a mother, or of a robin. Then … Continue reading The Idol of Peñatu
Spring gathering
Edward Osborne Wilson was a prolific biologist and entomologist who, through his studies, was able to reveal to us the most intimate and essential aspects of Homo sapiens, bringing humans evolutionarily closer to bees, termites, and ants. Eusociality is a level of organization found in some species and is characterized by the coexistence of individuals … Continue reading Spring gathering
The Mature Forest
May’s first rains fall and the rockroses, without warning, burst into bloom overnight. Spring is tentative when it wakes after winter, as if testing its possibilities; but at a certain point it becomes exuberant, even bawdy. Everything buds, everything expands. Then, when summer arrives, the fast-growing vegetation that has already fulfilled its essential role —to … Continue reading The Mature Forest
The swollen Tagus river
The heavy rains we have experienced over these past months of January and February have gifted us with striking scenes of rivers and streams flowing freely through green, life-filled landscapes. The other side of the coin has been the image of towns devastated by water due to a clear lack of urban planning and the … Continue reading The swollen Tagus river
Martaki: memory of the soul of Greece
Wandering through the streets of Athens, I immerse myself in a festive and pleasant bustle. It surprises me, because crowds and excessive noise usually bother me. But here everything seems to hold a balanced measure. The golden ratio shines even in the midst of disorder. Floating among the throng, I hear a multi-conversation that sounds … Continue reading Martaki: memory of the soul of Greece
Dehesa. The Living Woodland
The experts in botany, along with some satellites and a few algorithms (Nature journal, Crowther et al., 2015), estimated that there are 3.04 trillion trees on planet Earth. That means each human would “have” 375 trees. In Spain, it is estimated that there are about 7.5 billion trees (National Forest Inventory), so we would each … Continue reading Dehesa. The Living Woodland
Canary Islands “Hot Spot”: Volcanism on La Palma Island
La Palma, in the Canary Islands, stands out for its intense volcanic activity linked to the submarine “hot spot” that feeds the archipelago. This island has been the most historically active since the 15th century, with eruptions concentrated along the Cumbre Vieja Ridge. The archipelago lies above a mantle hot spot, which generates magma plumes … Continue reading Canary Islands “Hot Spot”: Volcanism on La Palma Island
Papilio machaon. Swallowtail butterfly or fennel butterfly
Curiosity is defined by the RAE as the desire to know or find out what does not concern us or the vice that leads someone to inquire into what should not matter to them. Reproachable acts with malicious connotations, probably formally defined in times when freedom of thought and action were not well-regarded and posed … Continue reading Papilio machaon. Swallowtail butterfly or fennel butterfly
The Neverland Country
Being close to an erupting volcano, feeling a massive sea storm, seeing a northern lights display, discovering that a book you wrote moves someone... Dreams, longings, or desires are sometimes simple, strange, childish. To touch some of them, we went back to the North. This time during the harshest winter, many days at -30°C. Yet … Continue reading The Neverland Country
Anthropocene
In the year 2000, two scientists, Paul Crutzen and Eugene Stoermer, proposed the term Anthropocene to define a new stage in the geological history of our planet. The rationale for creating this new period was that human activity has become a dominant geological force, capable of irreversibly altering Earth's atmosphere, ecology, and geology. The underlying … Continue reading Anthropocene
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