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...Spanish tomatoes have many more food miles attached to them. Why might this be true? The UK-grown tomatoes would have to be grown in heated glasshouses, which could easily involve the consumption of more energy (and the emission of more greenhouse gases) than that required to transport tomatoes from Spain, where they could be grown outdoors or in unheated glasshouses....

...Spanish coast water temperatures are warmer on the east side than the west. And it is a remnant of a warm water current called the Gulf Stream which flows across the Atlantic Ocean towards Northern Europe. In subsequent sections you will see that the shape of the ocean basins (Section 2) combined with the properties of seawater (Section 3) and the ocean currents (Section...

...Spanish flamenco music. Source–cause descriptions are probably the most common way of describing sounds. Your list probably resembles mine in this respect. Such descriptions are particularly interesting because it is quite remarkable how descriptions of sounds seem to rely so much on things that are not the sounds themselves. Consider the way we would generally describe...