Captain Cook was cooked, but not eaten
A remarkable new book about the navigator, ‘Wide, Wide Sea’ by Hampton Sides, traces the adventurer’s third voyage and its fateful conclusion
Mass euthanasia or a Chinese theme park: Limbo of 30 belugas and two orcas shows banning the exhibition of cetaceans is not enough
The situation of these animals in Canada, France, and Spain reflects how welfare laws fall short in safeguarding their future
Cheikh Kane: From survival at sea to runway glory
The Senegalese migrant risked his life to reach Marbella — a photographer who spotted his potential as a model changed it forever
The civil engineer who stopped a port from being built in Tenerife
Spaniard Carlos Mallo received the Goldman Prize this week, considered the Nobel Prize of environmentalism: ‘Tourism is the main factor damaging the islands’
Maps and charts to explain what is known about the accident in Washington
The helicopter’s GPS signal shows that it had taken off shortly before the crash. Aircraft collisions accounted for 12% of all aviation accidents last year
The ‘comet of the century’ approaches closest point to Earth
C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, the brightest comet in 100 years, will be visible to the naked eye from October 12
‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ according to its actors: ‘It is a story of survival. It will be unpredictable, volatile’
The series’ protagonists talk about what’s new in the second season and the responsibility that lies in bringing Tolkien’s world to life
Not in the city, not in the countryside: In Spain, rental pressure leaves tenants with nowhere to go
Prices exceed 30% of average income in urban areas in almost all parts of the country. Experts talk about ‘a second gentrification’ of people who were expelled from city centers to the periphery and now find themselves pushed beyond that
The best photos of the Milky Way of 2024
The photography and travel blog ‘Capture the Atlas’ has published its annual collection of the “Milky Way Photographer of the Year” with the 25 best snapshots of the galaxy from different parts of the world. The final 25 photos have been selected from more than 5,000 entries
Wildfire on Spain’s popular tourist island of Tenerife was started deliberately, official says
The regional president said Sunday police had opened three lines of inquiry, but did not say if there had been any arrests
Firefighters battle smoke and heat to control a major wildfire in Spain’s tourist island of Tenerife
The fire in the north of the island started Tuesday night and has forced the evacuation or confinement of nearly 8,000 people
Political crisis in Senegal triggers influx of migrants to Spain’s Canary Islands
In the last six weeks alone, 19 boats from West Africa have landed in the Spanish archipelago. In the whole of 2022, only three arrived
Get your rocks off: Tenerife calls time on stone towers left on beaches
Volunteers plan to remove hundreds of the man-made piles due to their negative impact on the environment, given that they threaten the island’s flora and fauna