Micro documentaries on climate and atmospheric phenomena
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
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
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
Yala Peak is a summit of just over 5,500 m in the Langtang Valley, Nepal. It is not an especially high mountain for the Himalayas, but it offers a splendid viewpoint over the higher and more rugged peaks that surround it. It is regarded as a trekking peak, which can be reached without the use … Continue reading Yala Peak,Himalaya. Nepal.
Meteorology is the science that studies atmospheric phenomena that decisively influence all living beings that inhabit planet Earth. Air temperature, precipitation (or the absence thereof), cloud cover and sunshine, wind, and the rest of the climatic elements condition the climate of each place and allow for lush areas with vegetation and full of life alongside … Continue reading Meteo
Heading out into the countryside, into the white world. Contemplating how the water emerges from the ice and snow, from the sponge that is the soil, the roots of the heather, the moss, and the lichens. Enjoying the luxury of drinking from it. Then sucking on the sleet that has clung to the branches, the … Continue reading Late Snowfall
In this year 2023, we've had a very dry start to the year. It hasn't rained at all since mid-January, and it wasn't until the second half of May that the first showers fell. The parched countryside has turned green again, bloomed, and the cereal crops seem to be recovering. The rivers are flowing vigorously … Continue reading Thermophilic Mushrooms
In landscapes of middle latitudes with relatively temperate climates, the annual course of months and the passing of seasons is manifested by a series of environmental changes that occur each year around the same time but not exactly on the same date. Changes in the physical environment, such as sequences of different types of weather … Continue reading Phenology
We are in the midst of canicula, those summer days when the sun bakes the fields and nature slows down, overwhelmed by the high temperatures. Apparently, the term canicula comes from the Canis constellation, to which Sirius belongs, the brightest star in the sky. In ancient times, the beginning of the hottest season in the … Continue reading Canícula
The Jarama, shortly after its birth, is a wild stream that enjoys running through the mountains, jumping between the rocks with the agility and skill of a cheeky youngster. After being fed by the waters from the highest peaks of Somosierra, it soon becomes a small but impetuous river that flows through mountain meadows, oaks, … Continue reading Sea of clouds and upper Jarama
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