
The climate crisis - is it already out of control?
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The Spanish Fight Against Climate Change
In some parts of Spain, it's 44 degrees in the shade. The speed these fires are spreading is truly frightening. Stella has just been told to leave her property. She's disorientated and fearful of what comes next. But if climate change is all about the old elements, fire and heat, it is also about its counterpart, water. In Spain, drought, a perennial problem has become a chronic one. Reservoirs across the country are low. Water levels are so low that a medieval village flooded when the lake was first created back in the 1960s has re-emerged lending an eariness to a sun-baked lake bed.
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