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1 week ago | 
elpais.com | Ana Carbajosa |Asier Hernando Malax-Echevarria |Gonzalo Fanjul
Donald Trump ha desatado un terremoto de consecuencias incalculables al suspender USAID, el mayor donante de ayuda al desarrollo del mundo. La decisión de Estados Unidos no es una excepción. Países europeos como Alemania, Francia, Holanda o Reino Unido han anunciado o acometido una disminución de la ayuda en los últimos meses. España, sin recortes a la vista constituye una rareza en este ecosistema aislacionista.
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1 month ago | 
english.elpais.com | Ana Pantaleoni |Pablo Linde |Ana Carbajosa
Josephine Karwah lost her mother, father and sister Salomé. Her child was born dead, in the street, on the way to the hospital. No one wanted to help a mother who had contracted Ebola, the lethal virus that claimed the lives of entire families. Sitting in front of the small clinic she now runs in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, Karwah picks up her phone and opens a WhatApp group. It has 81 members, all of whom suffered from Ebola except for one, a doctor who sometimes offers medical advice.
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1 month ago | 
elpais.com | Ana Carbajosa |Alvaro Gonzalez
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1 month ago | 
english.elpais.com | Ana Carbajosa |Patricia R. Blanco |Beatriz Lecumberri |Ana Bulnes
On the beaches of Accra, the sea vomits up old clothes. The sand in Akuma Village is covered with a carpet of shoes and plastics entangled with shirts, shoelaces and pants. It’s just the tip of the iceberg of what is currently floating in the ocean. A few miles away on solid ground rises a series of multi-colored hills. This is no idyllic landscape, but rather, gigantic mountains of used clothing that has come from Europe, China and the United States.
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2 months ago | 
elpais.com | Ana Carbajosa |Patricia R. Blanco |Beatriz Lecumberri
Pedimos a los compañeros de la redacción que trajeran ropa que ya no usaran. En el dobladillo, camuflamos unos trackers numerados y cosidos, para poder geolocalizar las prendas en todo momento Depositamos las prendas con los trackers en 15 contenedores de reciclaje repartidos por toda España. En ese momento comenzó un viaje con numerosas paradas y un destino incierto Casi un año después, muchas de esas prendas siguen dando vueltas por el mundo.
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2 months ago | 
english.elpais.com | Maolis Castro |Ana Carbajosa
Rice grows in abundance in the dry soil of a field in Ñiquén, a municipality in the Ñuble region 400 kilometers (249 miles) from Santiago, Chile. The completely atypical cultivation method has begun to attract farmers to this field in the Las Rosas sector to witness that it is possible to produce one of the most consumed foods in the world without high water usage. Guillermo Muñoz, 66, who began farming in the fields as a child, had never seen anything like it.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
english.elpais.com | Jose Alvarez |José Álvarez |Silvia Blanco |Ana Carbajosa
The American continent has been engulfed by flames in recent years. Between January and February 2024, fires ravaged the forests and hills of South America, including a devastating megafire in Valparaíso, Chile. This year, in Los Angeles, California, wildfires have already scorched 160 square kilometers of land and homes, resulting in 24 fatalities and the evacuation of more than 150,000 people. In the current crisis, it seems that almost everything is tied to climate change.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
english.elpais.com | Clemente Álvarez |Jose Alvarez |José Álvarez |Silvia Blanco |Ana Carbajosa
It was predicted in December, but it has now been officially confirmed: 2024 was the warmest year on record, with the average temperature surpassing the 1.5-degree Celsius threshold above pre-industrial levels for the first time.
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Dec 1, 2024 | 
english.elpais.com | Winnie Byanyima |Beatriz Lecumberri |Ana Carbajosa
RecyclingWhy putting used clothes in a recycling bin does not allow you to have a clear conscienceGreenpeace Spain placed tracking devices on 23 items of clothing and followed their journey for a year after depositing them in collection containers.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
elpais.com | Ana Carbajosa
En el segundo párrafo de la primera página de su libro, Angela Merkel entra de lleno donde más le duele. Confiesa que nunca se hubiera imaginado escribir un libro de memorias hasta que pasó lo que pasó la noche del 4 de septiembre de 2015. Aquella noche, miles de refugiados marchaban con lo puesto hacia Alemania desde Hungría. Merkel se enfrentaba a un dilema mayúsculo: impedirles el paso por la fuerza o dejarles entrar en Alemania. Optó por lo segundo alegando motivos legales y humanitarios.
