Halfway between Australia and Hawaii, lost in the vastness of the Pacific Ocean, lies one of the most remote and abused countries in the world: the Marshall Islands. Made up of 29 coral reef atolls and 1,152 tropical islands, most of them uninhabited, this island republic in Oceania functioned during the Cold War as a nuclear laboratory for the United States, which detonated more than sixty atomic bombs, which is why in some parts of its territory they are; that is why many Marshallese are born with deformities and suffer from cancer. But currently, their main concern is climate change which will make life impossible on their archipelagos in a few years: rising sea levels threaten to flood the entire country within half a century. Many citizens have already left their land to survive, They are climate refugees"Paradise is an island, hell too," wrote Judith Schalansky in her Atlas of Remote Islands.

He Wednesday's earthquake off the coast of Russia It is the sixth most intense earthquake ever recorded in the world. With a magnitude of 8.8, one of the highest in history, it is still behind another that occurred in the same Russian region of Kamchatka in 1952, which was magnitude 9. The strongest in history (since records began) is the magnitude 9.5 that occurred in Chile in 1951, with waves reaching up to 10 meters in some places. This Wednesday, however, waves did not exceed 4 meters on the Russian coast.