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The Guadalajara fire corners species such as the wolf, the shrew and the Apollo butterfly

Castilla-La Mancha fights to save highly valuable Scots pine groves in the Sierra de Ayllón

Agora, the platform that checks whether nutrition videos on the networks are reliable or hoaxes

The project fights scientific misinformation with the help of almost 300 professionals, who assess the reliability of viral content sent by users

Agustín Gregori, the grandfather who at the age of 73 founded a clothing brand with his grandchildren and his colleagues

A little over a year ago he was recovering from an operation. To leave the house, he began to walk with his grandchildren and his crew. This is how the urban clothing brand Salpi was born, a brand where decisions are made together.

The guide to lettuce: how to buy it, preserve it and choose the appropriate type according to use

Making the vegetable shine is simple if you know how. It is also possible to remove it from salads and take it further

Starmus celebrates ten years of the Stephen Hawking Medal in the Canary Islands

Starmus, the global festival of science, arts, exploration and music, returns to Tenerife and La Palma. Physicist Brian Cox will receive global recognition for his contribution to curiosity, creativity and scientific discovery at the festival. But he won't be the only one. The anthropologist Christiana Figueres will be the first recognized in a new category

Chess videos | Timman's creative boil

In one of his most sophisticated works of art, the immortal Dutchman includes a pawn sacrifice that can be captured in four ways, all of which lose.

The water that makes the population of an entire region grow

The Bezoya plants in Ortigosa del Monte (Segovia) are an example of how innovation, adaptation, sustainability and corporate responsibility manage to retain neighbors from the entire area who want to work and live in the same place

Can you survive summer without air conditioning? I have tried several alternatives for a week to find out which ones are worth it

Fans, a cooling blanket and several homemade tricks: I test the most popular alternatives to beat the heat without air conditioning

Alain de Botton: "The worst thing about being single is that you can't stop thinking about love. It's like when you don't have money: you don't think about anything else"

Swiss based in London and trained as a philosopher in Cambridge, he has sold millions of books writing on topics such as love, painting or architecture, from 'Art as therapy' to 'The architecture of happiness', 'The consolations of philosophy' or 'How to change your life with Proust'. Becoming a therapist, in 2008 he founded The School of Life, a school that through books, videos, courses and therapy helps to investigate self-knowledge.

Andrea Rizzi stars in the first meeting for Friends of EL PAÍS

The newspaper's Global Affairs correspondent chatted with journalist Ana Alonso de Blas in an exclusive meeting that could also be followed in virtual format

Luis de la Fuente: “The best Lamine is yet to arrive; now he is very dangerous for rivals”

The coach, very relaxed before Spain's quarterfinal match against Belgium, believes that the Blaugrana needs to recover his “brilliance” after the injury

At least 12 people die in the Los Gallardos fire, in Almería

Several victims have been found inside burned vehicles. It is “the fire with the greatest consequences to date” in Andalusia

Alcaraz's return is “on the right path”

The Murcian is evolving positively from the wrist injury that kept him off the slopes since April. He will not return to Canada, but he hopes to be able to do so in August

Judge Piña orders to locate “indications of criminality” in Cospedal's conversations with Villarejo

The magistrate asks the Police to investigate the material seized from the commissioner and agrees to request an audio where the politician supposedly states that they “cleaned” Bárcenas “everything he had.”

France takes to the streets to celebrate the victory against Morocco

The police sealed off large French cities due to fear that the altercations of 2022 would be repeated, when both countries crossed paths.

France takes out the roller and the brush against Morocco and is already in the World Cup semi-finals

Mbappé and Dembélé defeat the African team with two great goals and put the Frenchmen in the penultimate round on the way to the title

Boric to Kast: “We have been rivals in ideas, we will continue to be, but we are deeply united by Chile”

The former left-wing president reveals that on the day of the change of command he delivered a letter to the Republican assuring him that he would be available for whatever the Republic requires

The Mossos turn to AI to recreate the face of a woman found dead in the Segre river

The police manage to identify the deceased in parallel to the request for help from citizens

Volkswagen announces a production cut and the elimination of half of its model range

The German automobile group announces that it will focus its offer on the “most attractive” market segments amid its staff's fear of massive layoffs

Roca Rey and David de Miranda, on shoulders with “portable plaza” ears

The president joined the populace atmosphere of a cycle in which the quality of bullfighting is the least important

The Czech shadow extends at Wimbledon: Muchova and Noskova guarantee another champion

The first beats Gauff in a very exciting outcome (6-2, 1-6 and 7-6 (10-8) and the second beats Kostyuk (double 6-4). They secure the fifth title for their country in 15 years

Florida officially renames Palm Beach airport after Trump

The airfield, a public facility, was renamed President Donald J. Trump International Airport. It is the first commercial airport in the US named in honor of a sitting president

The president of the bishops blames the lack of ethics for the State becoming “a gang of thieves”: “I refer to the facts”

Minister Félix Bolaños replies in a letter to Luis Argüello: “What would you think if a member of the Government described the Church as a ‘gang of sexual offenders’?”

South Africa's anti-immigration groups go from ultimatums to door-to-door threats

This Thursday's protests barely bring together hundreds of people, but they leave a new strategy: go through humble neighborhoods to point out immigrant homes and demand that they leave the country

Santander refuses to grant early retirement from the age of 50 as requested by the unions

The parties, far from an agreement, are scheduled for a new meeting on Monday, July 13

The Eurogroup cools the Spanish proposal for a permanent Eurobond issuance mechanism

The Finance Ministers commit to studying the approach in a technical field, but the Netherlands and Finland reiterate their rejection of the instrument

The partner of the murdered woman was arrested along with her daughter in Mijas on Wednesday

The bodies of both, aged 61 and 31, were found in their residence by firefighters, alerted by a fire.

The Labor Party opens a primary process aimed at 'crowning' Andy Burnham as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The last of the former mayor's potential rivals, Al Carns, throws in the towel. Burnham criticizes Starmer's initial response on Israeli offensive in Gaza

The Supreme Court opens a door to the definitive departure from Mexico of works by Frida Kahlo

The full court reviews whether the 1984 decree, which imposes the restrictions, undermines the rights of the owners. A tension embodied by the controversy over the Gelman Collection and its departure to Spain after the transfer to Banco Santander

The Government aspires to protect dependency with the reform of the law that commits it to cover 50% of the system's expenses

Congress has approved the opinion and it will be voted on in plenary next Tuesday, along with a financing decree of 6.2 billion euros

Rufián and Junqueras clash over the assessment of ERC's electoral expectations

The Congress spokesperson emphasizes the rise of Aliança Catalana that the Catalan CIS foresees and sees “childhood triumphalism” in the positive reading promoted by the management

Arancha González Laya, appointed president of World In Progress

The former Minister of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation will chair the international forum promoted by the PRISA Group, whose third edition will be held on November 2 and 3 in Barcelona

What happened at the Ankara NATO summit: the five minutes that changed Trump's mood

The leaders of the Atlantic Alliance had instructions not to exceed this time in their speeches

Brussels proposes giving preference to European products and services in critical sectors

The Commission finalizes a regulation so that public administrations favor European procurement in areas such as energy, transport or water

Goodbye Merckx: Cannibal Pogacar

Some will accuse the Slovenian of turning cycling into something predictable. They already did it with the Belgian until the journalist Pierre Chany sentenced the debate: “Has anyone considered whether Molière damaged theater or Bach damaged music?”

Mediaset announces a lawsuit against Atresmedia for 'AlaZ', the final test of 'Pasapalabra', due to similarities with 'El rosco'

The producer MC&F is preparing legal action because it does not see enough differences between the new format of the Antena 3 program and the one that the justice system forced them to withdraw

Long walks, traffic jams and no public transport: the start of Mad Cool confirms the fears of Villaverde and Getafe

The Madrid City Council maintains that there was "no particularly relevant incident", although it admits that it will introduce adjustments to the operation

The Iranian regime buries Khamenei as a martyr to stage its legitimacy and regional power

Millions of people have bid farewell for a week to the supreme leader, whom Israel and the United States killed on the first day of the war

Ferrari debuts the Madring: first laps of a Formula 1 to the Madrid urban circuit

Hamilton and Leclerc complete a private test to familiarize themselves with the track that will host the Spanish Grand Prix in September

PP and Vox prevent the treaty with France from entering into force with an appeal to the Constitutional Court

Left and nationalists accuse the popular parties of applying a “scorched earth” strategy to harm the Government. Albares assures that the blockade “goes against” Spain's position in Europe

Meta allows AI to generate images from your open Instagram profile without telling you: this way you can protect yourself

The Muse Image tool is powered by public photos uploaded to the social network. Simply tag a user and ask them to represent you doing something and the image is created in seconds

NATO leaders don't know what to do with Erdogan's gift: a revolver with its bullets

The Turkish president surprised his guests with a Gümüşay 357 Magnum. The weapon that Pedro Sánchez received has been delivered to the Interior to be rendered useless

Searching for the truck driver who ran over Nikoline, a Norwegian teenager who was celebrating her team's victory in Marbella

The Civil Guard is trying to clarify why the 17-year-old victim had gotten off the vehicle that was taking her to her accommodation in the middle of the highway.

Pogacar annihilates its rivals in the ascent of the Tourmalet

The Slovenian regains the leader's jersey after escaping 43 km from the finish line and distances Vingegaard by 2m 42s in the general classification

An aviation instructor jumps into the void in mid-flight and his student manages to land

The 42-year-old man opened the door and jumped while accompanying a young woman on a training flight, in the Argentine province of Córdoba

A priest from Malaga is sentenced to 52 years in prison for sedating, raping and recording four women

His girlfriend found the sexual images by chance and reported him to the church, which only transferred him to his destination. Afterwards, he went to the National Police

Mexico promotes criminal proceedings to seek justice in the case of Mexicans who died in ICE custody

Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco has announced that actions will be initiated by prosecutors and civil authorities against the private companies that manage migrant detention centers.

A spy scandal breaks out in Italy: two Russian military attaches expelled from the embassy in Rome

Two retired Italian agents are accused of passing information in exchange for envelopes worth 4,000 euros. One of them complained that they were paid little: “I can't even afford a coffee.”

Israel kills humanitarian worker who helped organize World Cup broadcast in Gaza in bombing

Mohamed al Wahidi died when a missile hit the vehicle he was traveling in, shortly before the match between Egypt and Argentina

Culture will bring together more than 30 international delegations in Madrid to protect Palestinian heritage

Minister Ernest Urtasun and the Palestinian ambassador to Spain, Husni Abdel Wahed, present a Ministerial Conference with the aim of creating an alliance for the reconstruction of the sector