Life at a company with a four-day workweek: ‘Mondays don’t wear me out anymore’
A reduced schedule and flexible workdays have improved employee motivation and productivity at a tech training company in northwestern Spain
DNA testing identifies Teodomiro, the bishop who founded the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage 12 centuries ago
An international investigation confirms that the remains found in 2019 belong to the man who found the supposed tomb of the apostle James in the Spanish region of Galicia
The Virtual Museum of the Spanish Civil War in Canada aims to exhibit the memory of both sides
The digital project, the only center dedicated exclusively to the 1936-1939 conflict, has inaugurated new sections and encourages the public to share objects and personal experiences
A rare mammal with a trunk-like snout and webbed feet: The Iberian desman faces extinction
The ‘Spanish platypus’ is unique to the Iberian Peninsula and a jewel of evolution that has lost up to 70% of the geographical range it occupied three decades ago
Heat threatens the taste and aroma of European beers
Climate change has been reducing the harvest and quality of hops for decades
The new life in Spain for the librarian who challenged Putin’s homophobia: ‘The sanctions against Russia affect ordinary people the most’
Six months ago, Vladimir Kosarevsky was about to be made homeless when he asked EL PAÍS for help. Since then, he has become a symbol of the fight against censorship and the removal of rights
Where the river meets the sea: the women who harvest shellfish
The women of the Spanish town of Cambados rake and harvest in search of clams, just as they’ve always done. But for years now, they’ve been dragging retro-futuristic carts that make their work a little easier. This is the story of how a homemade invention became a symbol of empowerment
Storms unearth hundreds of Roman artifacts in Spain
The collapse of a cliff in Galicia revealed pottery, bones and construction materials from two millennia ago. Meanwhile, a gallery in New York City is returning a mosaic to the same area
Fishing for noise pollution under the seas
Spanish scientist Soledad Torres-Guijarro says two-thirds of marine animals are negatively affected by all the artificial sound in the oceans
Deep within a Spanish forest, an Iron Age settlement turns out to be a medieval fortress
Laser photography has revealed a site covering 25 acres with a long defensive wall. But the spot is under threat from a planned wind farm and power station
Avian flu outbreak at Spanish mink farm sets off global alarm bells
Research on a case that occurred three months ago suggests that the virus jumped from wild birds and mutated at the facility, where all the animals were culled
No, the founder of Zara is not going to buy Manchester United
A fake news story in a local British outlet quickly gained traction after other media quickly picked it up without fact-checking first. Or perhaps the veracity of the article did not matter that much, anyway
The new cocaine lords of Galicia
After the excesses of the 1990s, the drug gangs from northwestern Spain have become adept at avoiding detection. But operating below the radar is a thriving transportation empire stretching all the way to Africa and the eastern Mediterranean