Nobody likes to drink water that has a color, whether it comes from a "mineral" water bottle or from our taps. If it has color, regardless of what color it is, it's a bad sign, as it indicates terrible flavors, foul smells, and gastric problems. However, we have become accustomed to the fact that the … Continue reading The colors of water
Geology, the science that arises from the need to explain the origin of the formation of our planet, starts -like all sciences- from the human being's curiosity to understand the environment in which he lives and the one he can glimpse. Until the arrival of rational thought, the answers to phenomena that we did not … Continue reading Geology of the Gallo River
I'm going to tell you a story about two populations of fish, two situations I have recently experienced that are happening. I would like to say that they are just an example, but I'm afraid they are a reflection of many other situations. The first one is about the cyprinids of the Duero River and … Continue reading Fish Chronicles
The Adaja was a great river. Perhaps they all were. The rains in spring and autumn were very abundant, as was the hunting and the fertility of the land. We know little more. Traces of bronze casting and then iron, fine pottery decorated with lace, circles and other symmetries, hand grinding stones and granite verracos, … Continue reading Castro of Las Cogotas
When we touch the first crystalline stones of a pale violet, we remember the teeth of the men and women who inhabited the caves of these mountains, eating fresh game or carrion or roots or crickets, but they did not have black holes. The teeth of our Paleolithic ancestors were full of greenish tartar and … Continue reading Fluorite
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
Fifteen thousand years ago, landscapes looked very different from what they do today, when the species known as Homo sapiens was just another opportunistic life form that adapted as best it could to a hostile environment in order to survive. It is difficult to imagine which species were affected by our expansion, not only through … Continue reading Life Landfills
These days, a stroll through the lavender fields of Brihuega coincided with reading Federico Kukso's book, "Odorama: A Cultural History of Smell." There are things that stink and are exquisite, like cheeses and perfumes with refined scents that, however, if we drink them, are disgusting. There are also days when humanity stinks as a whole … Continue reading Lavender
Conveying the disaster that is happening with water in the natural environment without falling into arguments to which we have become accustomed and that little call attention, besides being unoriginal, is like making a toast to the sun. The catastrophic discourse has lasted so long that it does not transcend, the daily dramas have immunized … Continue reading The rivers that are disappearing
We biked through the Alcarria conquense from Ercávica to Segóbriga, one hundred kilometers along a GR trail that had been abandoned to its fate, pedaling alongside the Guadiela, Mayor, and Cigüela rivers, over the waves of seas of wheat and barley, past abandoned sales, pigeon houses, and cigar factories, and through fallow fields and borders … Continue reading The Route of the Espejuelos (small mirrors)
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