Enjoying an exceptional panoramic view and being able to glimpse, in a 360-degree turn, the Girona plain, the Medes Islands, the Montgrí massif, the Pyrenees, Montseny, the Rocacorba mountain range, and the Guilleries mountains is well worth the effort required for the now legendary Subida a los Ángeles (Ascent to the Angels), with its climb known as Matahomes and a route with a significant elevation gain of 425 meters in just 9 km. Difficulty and scenic beauty (not only that enjoyed once you reach the summit, but also that offered by the entire route, in the heart of the Les Gavarres massif, with such attractive spots as the Bishop's Fountain and the Olivet d'en Sauleda) converge in this race, which celebrates its 62nd edition this Sunday. Established in 1964 by the Gironí Excursionist and Sports Group (GEiEG), it is the oldest mountain race in the State and, despite its difficulty, each year it brings together more than five hundred participants in the three modalities: competitive, popular and inclusive, the latter for people who go in wheelchairs.

Social inclusion manifests itself in many ways: in a classroom that adapts materials so everyone can learn; in a community center that offers activities for elderly people living alone; in a neighborhood that redesigns its streets to be accessible to children, the elderly, and people with reduced mobility. These are gestures that, taken together, create a fairer society, more attentive to all realities. But inclusion isn't just about urban spaces or public services: it's also about the outdoors, in the fundamental—yet simultaneously unequal—right to walk on a path, follow a trail, experience the forest, or reach a natural viewpoint. So, where does inclusion stand in Catalonia's natural environment?

"With her breasts exposed," literally and metaphorically, is how writer Núria Esponellà has experienced the breast cancer she was diagnosed with in October 2023. Literally because it has been demanded of her by mammograms, tactile examinations, radiotherapy sessions, radiotherapy sessions... because, as she explains, with the disease she has learned to value the essential things and, like someone throwing away their bra, to shed the armor and limiting and useless thoughts in order to feel free and love herself and her body, including her breasts marked by aging and the scars from the operation. With bare breasts It is also the title of her latest book, where the writer bears witness to the pain she has suffered, but also to the courage and positivity with which she has faced the illness.

I have seen, and I recommend, the documentary Goodbye, savages, which is being offered to Filmin. It's the story of a couple—she, Norwegian; he, English—who decide to live far from the city, in direct contact with wild nature, on an isolated farm. The couple has three sons and a daughter from a previous relationship. The mother, a photographer, documents family life in a diary full of images.

When the holidays are over and routine begins to set in, that bitter feeling of farewell often appears. But some have found a different way to extend the summer: looking up and being amazed by the birds crossing the sky. What once seemed like a hobby Reserved for ornithologists with notebooks and binoculars, it can be a leisure activity accessible to all audiences. And the last days of August and the beginning of September are ideal for delving into this world.

Witches certainly existed in Tiurana, a small municipality in the far east of Noguera, bordering the borders with Alt Urgell. This is confirmed by its own toponymy, which has identified the town for decades.Witches' era, a place very close to the hermitage of Sant Ermengol. In this era, experts say, one can find a wide variety of medicinal plants, the same ones that wise women used in ancient times to prepare their medicines.

Where are we going today? If you have a few days off and haven't decided on plans or destinations yet, we suggest five short, accessible hikes that are ideal for children if you're keen to hike and explore the diverse natural landscapes close to home.

The cameras that the Rural Agents have spread throughout Catalonia have allowed them to detect a situation that until now was unusual: an Iberian lynx (Lynx pardinus) in the wild in Catalonia. The discovery comes a year after the lynx was moved from endangered to vulnerable on the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species.

In Catalonia, there are seventeen garbage dumps or supplementary feeding points (SFPs) for carrion or necrophagous birds. These are authorized and regulated spaces where, subject to a series of requirements, meat by-products not intended for human consumption from slaughterhouses, such as lamb, sheep, or goat feet, can be left. Each of these contributions must be traceable, recorded, and strictly monitored. Thanks to these dumps, some necrophagous birds, such as the griffon vulture, have been able to recover, and others, which are still vulnerable or directly in danger of extinction, such as the bearded vulture, the Egyptian vulture, the black vulture, and the red kite, are on the way to recovery.

A few days ago we were listening to an episode of the podcast Stabbing pains dedicated to one of the four elements: the earth. They mentioned a lovely exercise that a university professor posed to her students: Observe what they stepped on for an entire week.

In the mid-1980s, a diver was exploring the Ryukyu Islands, off the southern coast of Japan. What he didn't expect was to stumble across one of the archaeological mysteries that still intrigue geologists today. Yonaguni is surrounded by theories about its origin: was it natural or was it built by humans? Its rectilinear and symmetrical shapes are what led some to believe the monument could be a megalith built at the end of the last ice age.

The water has been turned on, and the taps at all the fountains in Ardenya have begun to gush forth and sparkle. They are like earrings amidst the mane of trickles of water that descend from the mountain. Gullies crisscross the paths, and streams gallop toward the hollow, magnetized by the brook below. If we were to cut down the forest, we would see that these trickles of water are the luminous shadows of the trunk and branches of a great, invisible tree in the sky.

In the world there are one million natural species in danger of extinction. The Wildlife has been reduced by 69% in the last 50 years. That's why governments around the world agreedAgreement finally reached in 2022 in Montreal to protect at least 30% of ecosystems by 2030, but it remained to be seen how this enormous task would be financed. This was the objective of the UN COP16 Biodiversity Summit held last November in Colombia, which ended without an agreement. Negotiations resumed this week in Rome, and the pact was finally sealed around midnight on Thursday, just as the deadline expired. The 150 governments meeting in the Italian capital agreed to "mobilize $200 billion annually from 2030" to finance the protection and restoration of ecosystems with public and private money and various financial instruments. These funds include—and this was the big sticking point—direct aid from rich countries to poorer ones: $20 billion annually from 2025 and $30 billion annually from 2030.

"My husband dying during the Covid pandemic was a hard blow. I was locked up at home, completely alone, grieving. I only interacted with my mother, who has Alzheimer's." Maria Ángeles Fajardo, 64, still has a broken voice when she remembers it. She pauses briefly and adds: "It was truly horrible. I felt very bad, very depressed and very, very alone."