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Even though toilet paper is becoming less and less sustainable (most of it is made from virgin pulp, obtained from forests), and the options for using recycled rolls are scarce, we consume it in droves: in Spain alone we use 690,000 tons, according to Aspapel; about 81 rolls per head per year. We know that …

For the sixth consecutive day the Mar Menor drowns. Tens of thousands of dead fish have returned to shipwreck on the beaches of the salt lagoon. The image is not new: in October 2019 the beach of Villananitos, located on the shores of the Mar Menor, dawned with hundreds of dead fish. Faced with this …

Two new A400 airplanes of the Air Force have evacuated 177 people from Kabul in the early hours of the morning. They are Afghans who have cooperated with Spain and the United States, and have landed this Sunday in Dubai, according to sources from the Ministry of Defence. They are the fourth and fifth flight …

Shortly after his eighth birthday, Pongo (Luanda, 1992) and his family emigrated to Portugal, fleeing the living conditions of a devastated Angola after 25 years of civil war. Left behind were friends, family and a strong native culture that survived four centuries of Portuguese colonialism and slavery with little miscegenation. But life in Europe turned …

Laura, reader and partner of eldiario.es, writes us an email asking about the following question: “a few weeks ago a friend of mine stayed in a hotel in Galicia that looked very good, in fact its rating on TripAdvisor is quite high. The thing is that they had to leave after a while of being …

The heart has a kind of natural pacemaker that sends out a regular electrical impulse that makes the heart contract. We can feel this movement of blood through the blood vessels with the pulse, which is what gives us the number of times the heart beats. When it comes to the heartbeat, cardiologists usually take …

The health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives around the world, disproportionately affecting women and girls. Women make up 70 per cent of the global health workforce, which has made them more vulnerable to the risk of infection. With the additional burden of childcare and household chores, they have faced increased risk …

We present the magazine number 32 of elDiario.es: ‘Mexico, esdrújulo y volcánico’, in a virtual meeting that will take place next Thursday, July 1st from 19.00h. The meeting will be broadcasted from this link and through the social networks Facebook, Twitter and Twitch. If you want to be notified when we start, sign up for …

The EU Digital COVID Certificate, commonly known as COVID passport, will enter into force this Thursday, July 1 in all member states. In this way, the EU hopes that, little by little, normality in the movement between countries will be restored. And although there are already pilot programs in many Autonomous Communities to start granting …

In a context of broad debates on the future of cities and the need to put life at the center, elDiario.es has organized this Wednesday a conversation on the transformative changes in mobility, the new paradigm of sharing or the challenges of using urban space. The aim of the event was to talk about some …