Miguel Branco @mglbranco - Bluesky Profile

🔥📺O lume no noroeste peninsular fixo bater o récord de emisións de carbono por incendios en Europa
👉 i.gal/3lGdW

19.09.2025 14:04 — 👍 24 🔁 16 💬 0 📌 3

Pra min, ver a extensión nos Parques Naturais da Serra da Enciña da Lastra e do Invernadeiro, e no ZEC Macizo Central... que mágoa.

16.09.2025 19:57 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

🔥Os incendios calcinaron 37.819 hectáreas de Rede Natura 2000, o que supón o 10,8% do conxunto dos espazos protexidos galegos.

Velaquí o mapa👇🏼

Todos os datos: adega.gal/novas.php?id...

#incendios #lumesnuncamais #Ourense #ecoloxismogalego

16.09.2025 18:43 — 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 2

The ozone hole was real. The danger was global.

World leaders acted together, and the ozone layer is healing.

This World Ozone Day, we celebrate what science and cooperation can achieve. 🌍

#WorldOzoneDay #GlobalAction
@unep.org @bas.ac.uk

16.09.2025 14:15 — 👍 76 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 2

¿Qué pasa con el gallego, Carla Simón? ‘Romería’ es una película profunda y bien pautada. Tiene tema y trasfondo, una dosis de denuncia y, sobre todo, una forma peculiar de contemplar a la gente y sus prejuicios. Cine de autora, con su del...

✒️ Opinión | ¿Qué pasa con el gallego, Carla Simón?

‘Romería’ es una película profunda y bien pautada. Tiene tema y trasfondo. Cine de autora, con su delicadeza y su ferocidad. Y, sin embargo, vengo aquí para hacer público mi desencanto.

Por Teresa Moure

www.elsaltodiario.com/opinion/rome...

13.09.2025 16:19 — 👍 69 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 1

El "matorral" calcinado que Alfonso Rueda desprecia: hábitats protegidos, hogar de especies amenazadas y sumidero de carbono Expertos destacan el papel "valiosísimo" del monte bajo y ponen el foco en los animales salvajes que han muerto y los que se están viendo obligados a desplazarse en busca de alimento

Expertos destacan el papel “valiosísimo” del monte bajo y ponen el foco en los animales salvajes que han muerto y los que se están viendo obligados a desplazarse en busca de alimento
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07.09.2025 08:08 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

📐🖍️📅Se a volta á rutina de setembro se fai dura, en omeu.gal podes renovar o correo electrónico de balde e totalmente en galego. Bule se queres escoller o teu nome e ter todo o listo para a volta á escola!

01.09.2025 08:10 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

¿Sabes que tu ordenador puede funcionar sin darle un euro a Sillicon Valley? En este vídeo te mostramos algunas opciones.

Vídeo de Yago Álvarez y Alex Méaude.
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/alternativas/sabes-ordenador-puede-funcionar-darle-un-euro-sillicon-valley

30.08.2025 11:01 — 👍 55 🔁 26 💬 2 📌 1

Este pequeñísimo artículo de @xabiervp.bsky.social es enorme. Lo deberían leer todos los tertulianos y políticos del Estado.
👇👇👇👇
archive.is/wV2D2

30.08.2025 08:52 — 👍 32 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 1

Europa debería migrar en masa a SUSE y openSUSE Si la Unión Europea quiere tener independencia tecnológica real, debería apostar fuerte por SUSE y openSUSE tanto en servidores como escritorio.

Aunque no es la única opción, esta es probablemente la más razonable. Especialmente hirientes son los proyectos europeos orientados a la "independencia tecnológica" que usan masivamente las herramientas (y la "nube") de micro$oft.
www.muylinux.com/2025/08/29/u...

30.08.2025 08:14 — 👍 39 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 0

Unha ducia de espazos naturais das comarcas afectadas polos incendios do mes de agosto - Praza Pública Galicia -particularmente a provincia ourensá- sufriu este mes de agosto a peor vaga de lumes dos últimos anos. Uns incendios que arrasaron preto de 100.000 hectáreas e que nalgúns casos afectaron dire...

Unha ducia de espazos naturais das comarcas afectadas polos incendios do mes de agosto @praza.gal praza.gal/ducias/espaz...

29.08.2025 17:09 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

El Colegio Oficial de Biólogos de Galicia denuncia que ha sido excluido de una convocatoria de ayudas de la Axencia Galega da Industria Forestal días después de solicitar a la Xunta una nueva política forestal
www.galiciapress.es/articulo/ult...

29.08.2025 18:59 — 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1

Private land used for logging is more prone to severe fire than public lands. A new study shows why New research explains why forests planted for logging purposes fuel devastating wildfires more often than untouched land.

Given publication of another study showing that conventional forestry is a major contributor to the 'wildfire crisis' in the West, here's a thread that breaks down this issue & explains why changing forestry practices is so central to addressing our current dilemma.🧵🌏 www.latimes.com/environment/...

22.08.2025 04:30 — 👍 38 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 2

Los perfiles de los detenidos en la oleada de fuegos desmontan la tesis de la "trama incendiaria" de PP y Vox Pese a que Feijoó dice que "el 80% de los incendios son intencionales" la estadística oficial de la Fiscalía sostiene que solo uno de cada cuatro fueron provocados; en lo que va de verano hay 41 arres...

Los perfiles de los detenidos en la oleada de fuegos desmontan la tesis de la “trama incendiaria” de PP y Vox

24.08.2025 06:06 — 👍 254 🔁 135 💬 5 📌 4

This summer’s wildfires are not only a climate and nature crisis—they are a human one.

🔥 Area burnt: 967,026 ha (2025 to date, according to
@jrc_EFFIS), more than 4× last year’s level at this point

Learn more about the effects on communities: discomap.eea.europa.eu/ClimatePrepa...

21.08.2025 12:22 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

🔥 En nuestro estudio (doi:10.1002/ldr.3450) de 2020 analizamos incendios en el Mediterráneo (1985–2015). Hallamos que pocos incendios causan la mayoría del área quemada. En 🇵🇹 y 🇪🇸, el índice de concentración crece +7,6% y +1,3% por década. Urge adaptar la gestión del fuego.

21.08.2025 15:05 — 👍 23 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 2

Los biólogos gallegos exigen un cambio radical en la política forestal para frenar el impacto del cambio climático - Diario de Santiago. Noticias de Santiago de Compostela y Galicia. El Colegio Oficial de Biólogos de Galicia (Cogba) ha reclamado este viernes a las administraciones una nueva política forestal adaptada al cambio climático, que abandone los […]

El Colegio Oficial de Biólogos de Galicia reclama a las administraciones una nueva política forestal adaptada al cambio climático
www.diariodesantiago.es/galicia/los-...

22.08.2025 16:38 — 👍 5 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1

O que di a pancarta da manifestación de Vigo: "Non ao plan forestal do PP".

O que di a locución do telexornal da TVG, que amosa imaxes (sen pancartas) da mesma manifestación: "Esta tarde celebráronse concentracións nunha vintena de concellos galegos para protestar contra os incendios".

22.08.2025 07:43 — 👍 76 🔁 56 💬 4 📌 2

Imagen con la combinación de bandas 7-2-1 que permite diferenciar la vegetación sana de la quemada durante los incendios. Imagen cortesía de NOAA/NASA.

Hoy teníamos un día bastante despejado en el noroeste peninsular y el satélite Terra ha podido captar -gracias al uso de distintas bandas espectrales- las cicatrices de los incendios que han ocurrido. Las podéis ver perfectamente por su color marrón.

Devastador.

22.08.2025 17:04 — 👍 199 🔁 144 💬 5 📌 7

🔴⚠️🔥🇪🇸🇵🇹🌡Alarming conditions for several #wildfires affecting Spain and Portugal since days.The latest meteosat-12 📸 in early August 15 shows a giant smoke plume flying over France as well as violent fires in the iberian peninsula. #climateemergency

15.08.2025 13:23 — 👍 80 🔁 51 💬 7 📌 0

‘Consensus kills ambition’: UN plastics treaty talks end without an agreement Diplomats from around the world concluded nine days of talks in Geneva — plus a marathon overnight session that lasted into the early hours of Friday — with no agreement on a global plastics treaty. During a closing plenary that started on Friday at 6:30 a.m., more than 15 hours after it was originally scheduled to begin, nearly all countries opposed an updated draft of the United Nations treaty that was put forward by the negotiating committee chair, the Ecuadorian diplomat Luis Vayas Valdivieso. Many of their delegates said the text did not reflect their mandate under a U.N. Environment Assembly resolution to “end plastic pollution” by addressing the “full life cycle” of plastics. “We are truly sad to say that we will not have a treaty to end plastic pollution here in Geneva,” the head negotiator for Norway, Andreas Bjelland Erikse, told the chair. Valdivieso wrapped up the meeting just after 9 a.m. with the promise that they would continue at a later date. The decision ends a contentious week and a half of discussions during the “resumed” fifth session of negotiations over a United Nations plastics treaty, which started in Geneva on August 4. Delegates had arrived in the city hoping to finalize a treaty by Thursday, having already overrun their original deadline to complete the agreement by the end of 2024. Signs of a logjam were apparent even within the first few days of the talks, however, as countries hewed to the same red lines they’d stuck to during previous negotiations. A so-called “ like-minded group ” of oil-producing countries said it would not accept legally binding obligations and opposed a wide range of provisions that other nations said were essential, including controls on new plastic production, as well as mandatory disclosures and phaseouts of hazardous chemicals used in plastics. During a plenary on August 9 , three observers independently told Grist that the negotiations felt like “Groundhog Day,” as countries reiterated familiar talking points. A norm around consensus-based decision-making discouraged compromise from all countries, though the like-minded group — which includes Bahrain, Iran, and Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Russia, among other countries — was particularly intransigent and understood it could simply block proposals rather than shift its positions. Instead of whittling down a draft of the treaty that had been prepared late last year during the previous meeting in Busan, South Korea, delegates added hundreds of suggestions to it, placing a deal further from reach. Over the course of the Geneva talks, delegates rejected two new drafts of the treaty prepared by Valdivieso: one released on Wednesday , which was so objectionable that countries said it was “ repulsive ” and lacked “any demonstrable value,” and the most recent one published just hours before Friday’s 6:30 a.m. plenary. Many expressed their preference to revert back to the Busan draft as a basis for future discussions. Despite Friday’s outcome, the plastics treaty does not yet appear to be dead. Virtually all countries expressed an interest in continued negotiations — the European Union delegate Jessika Roswall said she would not accept “ a stillborn treaty ” — and many used their mic time during the closing plenary to remind others of what’s at stake. Tuvalu’s delegate, Pepetua Election Latasi, during a plastics treaty plenary meeting in Geneva. Joseph Winters / Grist “We cannot ignore the gravity of the situation,” a negotiator from Madagascar said. “Every day, our oceans and ecosystems and communities are suffering from the consequences of our inability to make decisive and unified actions.” Tuvalu’s delegate, Pepetua Election Latasi, said failing to enact a treaty means that “millions of tons of plastic waste will continue to be dumped in our oceans, affecting our ecosystem, food security, livelihoods, and culture.” Still, without a change in the negotiations’ format — particularly around decision-making — it’s unclear whether further discussions will be fruitful. The norm around “consensus-based decision-making means the threat of a vote can’t be used to nudge obstinate countries away from their red lines; unless decision-making by a majority vote is introduced then this dynamic is unlikely to change. “This meeting proved that consensus is dead,” said Bjorn Beeler, executive director of the International Pollutants Elimination Network, a coalition of health and environmental organizations. “The problem is not going away.” Why is it so hard to make decisions at the plastics treaty? Procedural rules for the plastics treaty negotiations say that, for substantive issues, delegates “shall make every effort” to reach agreement by consensus. Otherwise they can vote by a two-thirds majority, but only as a “last resort.” When delegates sought to clarify these rules during the second round of talks in 2023, there was so much disagreement that it sank several days of negotiation. The result is that delegates have defaulted to consensus for everything, fearful of broaching the subject and losing even more of their limited negotiating time. Yet consensus-based decision-making is also one of the main reasons that the negotiations have gone so slowly: Oil-producing countries have used these rules to their advantage to either stall or water down interim agreements at each round of negotiations, frustrating progress even when they’re greatly outnumbered. Other nonprofits and advocacy groups staged several silent protests during the Geneva talks raising this same point, displaying signs reading, “Consensus kills ambition.” Senimili Nakora, one of Fiji’s delegates, said during the closing plenary that “consensus is worth seeking if it moves us forward, not if it stalls the process.” Switzerland’s negotiator, Felix Wertli, said that “this process needs a timeout,” and that “another similar meeting may not bring the breakthrough and ambition that is needed.” Other countries raised broader concerns about “the process” by which negotiations had proceeded. Meetings had been “nontransparent,” “opaque,” and “ambiguous,” they said during the plenary, likely referring to unclear instructions they had received from the secretariat, the bureaucratic body that organizes the negotiations. Inger Andersen, the U.N. Environment Programme’s executive director, told reporters on Friday that it at least had been helpful to hear countries more clearly articulate their red lines. “Everyone has to understand that this work will not stop, because plastic pollution will not stop.” Observers sit outside the assembly hall at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, waiting into the early hours of the morning for plenary to start. Joseph Winters / Grist The plastics industry, which has opposed controlling plastic production and phasing out groups of hazardous chemicals, said it would continue to back a treaty that “keeps plastics in the economy and out of the environment.” Marco Mensink, council secretary of the International Council of Chemical Associations, said in a statement: “While not concluding a global agreement to end plastic pollution is a missed opportunity, we will continue to support efforts to reach an agreement that works for all nations and can be implemented effectively.” Environmental groups, scientists, and frontline organizations were disappointed to leave Geneva without an ambitious treaty. They said it would have been worse, however, if countries had decided to compromise on key provisions such as human health and a “ just transition ” for those most likely to be affected by changes to global recycling and waste management policies, including waste pickers. Under the circumstances, they applauded delegates for not agreeing to the final version of the chair’s text. “I’m so happy that a strong treaty was prioritized over a weak treaty,” said Jo Banner, co-founder of the U.S.-based organization The Descendants Project , which advocates to preserve the health and culture of the descendants of enslaved Black people in of a swath of Louisiana studded by petrochemical facilities “It feels like our voices have been heard,” added Cheyenne Rendon, a senior policy officer for the U.S. nonprofit Society of Native Nations, which has advocated that the treaty include specific language on Indigenous peoples’ rights and the use of Indigenous science. Protestors gather outside the Palais des Nations in Geneva, during talks for a global plastics treaty. Joseph Winters / Grist Advocacy groups call for delegates to make decisions by voting, not consensus, at plastics treaty negotiations. Joseph Winters / Grist By contrast, observers’ voices were literally not heard during the final moments of the concluding plenary in Geneva. After more than two hours of statements from national delegations, Valdivieso turned the mic over to a parade of young attendees, Indigenous peoples, waste pickers, and and others who had been present throughout the week and a half of talks. But only one speaker — from the Youth Plastic Action Network — was able to give a statement before the United States and Kuwait asked the chair to cut them off and conclude the meeting. It is now up to the plastics treaty secretariat to set a date and time for another round of negotiations, which are not likely to happen until next year. In the meantime, all eyes will be on the U.N. Environment Assembly meeting in December, where Andersen is expected to deliver a report on the negotiations’ progress — or lack thereof — and which could present an opportunity for the like-minded countries to lower the ambition of the treaty’s mandate: the statement spelling out what the treaty is trying to achieve. Some environmental groups fear that Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, and others will try to change the mandate so that it no longer refers to the “full life cycle” of plastics, but just plastic pollution — thus turning the treaty into a waste management agreement rather than one that addresses the full suite of plastics’ harms to health and the environment, including during the material’s production. Banner said she doesn’t feel defeated; in fact, she’s “more passionate than ever” to keep fighting for legally binding restrictions on the amount of plastic the world makes. “I’m planning to survive,” she added, and to do that, “we have got to stop the production of plastic.” This story was originally published by Grist with the headline ‘Consensus kills ambition’: UN plastics treaty talks end without an agreement on Aug 15, 2025.

‘Consensus kills ambition’: UN plastics treaty talks end without an agreement #Climate

15.08.2025 16:47 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

"The links between climate change mitigation and biodiversity protection will also be in the spotlight, as will the energy transition." + adaptation solutions.

15.08.2025 18:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

O grande incendio do Macizo Central xa é o maior da historia de Galicia - Praza Pública A unión dos dous focos en Chandrexa de Queixa crea un gran fogo de máis de 11.000 hectáreas, o meirande documentado no país. Moi preto, en Maceda tamén confluíron dous importantes incendios que suman ...

‼️🔥 O grande incendio do Macizo Central xa é o maior da historia de Galicia

A unión dos dous focos en Chandrexa de Queixa crea un gran fogo de máis de 11.000 hectáreas, o meirande documentado no país praza.gal/acontece/o-g...

15.08.2025 08:26 — 👍 31 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 8

A Xunta non actualiza a limitada información que viña dando dos incendios desde hai 10 horas

15.08.2025 17:30 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

Antes de inventar chivos expiatorios, los políticos deben asumir su responsabilidad: su nula GESTIÓN del territorio crea paisajes continuos e inmaduros llenos de combustible y sin los 'cortafuegos' de un 'paisaje mosaico'.
Y claro, infradotar a los bomberos forestales y destrozar el clima no ayuda.

12.08.2025 07:41 — 👍 20 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0

Entre los incendios ‘intencionados’, una gran parte no tenían ánimo de hacer daño (dolo), sino que encontramos, sobre todo, quemas agrícolas para regenerar pastos y otros usos tradicionales del fuego.
El vandalismo solo aparece detrás de un 7% de los IIFF y la piromanía en otro 7%.
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12.08.2025 07:41 — 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

Titular de prensa del diario ABC: "La Junta apunta a un 'terrorismo ambiental coordinado' como causa de fuegos como el de Las Médulas"

INCENDIOS | La cantinela del "terrorismo ambiental" empieza a sonar a excusa de mal político que no hace lo que debe cuando toca.
Los datos son tozudos: los incendios provocados con ánimo de hacer daño, son una minoría: casi el 70% de los incendios forestales se debe a accidentes y negligencias.
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12.08.2025 07:41 — 👍 26 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 3

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

05.08.2025 04:36 — 👍 9372 🔁 1907 💬 188 📌 225

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02.08.2025 18:59 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Los bosques de Europa pierden capacidad para absorber carbono y ponen en riesgo los objetivos climáticos - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad La capacidad de estos ecosistemas de atrapar dióxido de carbono se ha reducido casi un tercio en tan solo una década, según un estudio en el que han participado el CREAF y el CSIC.

Un estudio publicado en la revista 'Nature' y en el que han participado el CREAF y el CSIC alerta de que la capacidad los bosques de atrapar dióxido de carbono se ha reducido casi un tercio en tan solo una década. Esto pondría en riesgo los objetivos climáticos de la UE

02.08.2025 11:02 — 👍 11 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0

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