Today in Spain: A roundup of the latest news on Monday

12 regions on alert for very high temperatures on Monday

The heatwave currently affecting the Iberian Peninsula has triggered alerts in a total of twelve autonomous communities this Monday due to the extreme temperatures expected to reach around 40 C or higher in many areas.

In five regions (Andalusia, Castilla-La Mancha, Extremadura, Galicia and Madrid) there’s an orange alert while in seven others (Aragón, Cantabria, Castilla y León, Catalonia, Navarre, the Basque Country and La Rioja) Spain’s national weather agency has activated a yellow alert.

READ ALSO: What do Spain's orange and red weather alerts mean for the public?

Spain on wildfire watch as heatwave rolls in

As a result of these very high temperatures, Spain and neighbouring Portugal are on wildfire alert.

Spanish firefighters have already been working to control a fire which had already ravaged around 570 hectares (1,400 acres) near the northwestern town of Vilardevos in Galicia.

Fires have burnt more than 25,700 hectares of Portugal since the beginning of 2025, according to the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS).

Scientists have long warned that climate change driven by humanity's burning of fossil fuels is making extreme weather events such as heatwaves more likely and more intense.

Two bodies found after Mallorca plane crashes in sea

Spanish emergency services on Sunday found the bodies of a father and son who were in a plane that crashed off the coast of Mallorca in the Balearic Islands, the civil guard said.

Press reports said it was a stunt plane that had been performing acrobatics before crashing into the sea on Saturday evening.

Witnesses on a boat in the area said they saw the plane go down near the port of Soller, just off the island's north coast.

One witness said the plane had taken off some two hours earlier to perform a stunt routine, according to local media.

Teenage hospital admissions for depression explode in Spain

In the last two decades, hospitalizations for depression among adolescents in Spain have increased by more than 1,200 percent, rising from 173 cases in 2000 to nearly 1,800 in 2021, according to a study conducted by the International University of La Rioja (UNIR) and published in the Journal of Affective Disorders.

"In the last decade, social media has spread, and there has also been a social transformation. And, although it may seem paradoxical, children and adolescents present very worrying levels of social isolation," the study reads.

One of the most striking findings is that three out of four hospitalized patients were adolescent girls (74.3 percent), and the most affected group is those between 14 and 17 years old.

With additional reporting by AFP.