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Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people

New book reveals that Pacific islands inhabitants helped European scientists identify hundreds of plant species

In 1769, nearly nine months after setting sail with Capt James Cook on his first voyage …

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To Big Sur, with love: a monastery stay on the north California coast

High above the Pacific, a hermitage offers a world without distraction, where silence, serenity and joy reign supreme

I get into my car outside my mother’s home and drive up into the mountains. Past t…

‘Never seems to end’: exhausted quake-hit Vanuatu rebuilds again

True cost and psychological toll of the December quake emerges as the Pacific country grapples with its third major disaster in two years

Last month in the small settlement of Mele Maat, just outside …

I’ve covered deadly wildfires for seven years. It doesn’t have to be this way | Dani Anguiano

While the LA fires have been described as unprecedented, here in California we have experience with this kind of fire

Over the last seven years, I have covered three of the four deadliest wildfires in…

Rami Malek on rebellion, racism, and still feeling like an outsider: ‘I’m white passing, but growing up in LA, we definitely didn’t fit in’

He was an unruly teenager in 90s Los Angeles, who became feted for his turns as Freddie Mercury and a Bond villain. Now he’s turning to Greek tragedy on the London stage

Rami Malek, in one graceful sw…

‘Criminally reckless’: why LA’s urban sprawl made wildfires inevitable – and how it should rebuild

A century of foolhardy development, including public subsidies for rebuilding in the firebelt, hugely contributed to this tragedy, writes our architecture critic. LA must rethink – and build upwards …

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