The heavy rains recorded this Wednesday in the province of Malaga have caused early in the afternoon the overflow of the Benamargosa river as it passes through the Malaga town of the same name, where the water has begun to enter some homes. The mayor of this municipality of about 1,600 inhabitants, Salvador Arcas (PSOE), has explained that the population has been recommended not to be in the street, and has contacted the Provincial Consortium of Firefighters to request assistance. Through its social networks, the City Council has warned that “there is much risk of a lot of water coming all at once and it can be fatal”, so it has asked the neighbors not to be in the street “and much less on the bridge, streams or Cuatro Vientos”.

You may have noticed that every year the leaves turn yellow and fall later and later. You didn't: a review of 64 studies from 1931 to 2010 in Asia, Europe and North America confirmed that rising global temperatures have delayed leaf fall in the Northern Hemisphere. Michael Lavelle, a senior lecturer in the Department of Landscape Management at Anglia Ruskin University, examined the causes and consequences of this trend in the pages of The Conversation.