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Groundbreaking botanical discoveries on Captain Cook voyage were thanks to Indigenous people
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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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Unexpectedly warm January puzzles climate scientists
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To Big Sur, with love: a monastery stay on the north California coast
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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
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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
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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’
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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…
‘It was built for this’: how design helped spare some homes from the LA wildfires
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As fires set LA ablaze, some houses are left standing amid ashes thanks to concrete walls, class A wood – and luck
When last week’s fires in Los Angeles set parts of the city ablaze, one viral image w…
Vanuatu holds election amid earthquake devastation
Residents line up to vote amid political instability and buildings and infrastructure shattered by last month’s earthquake
Polls have opened in Vanuatu , a Pacific nation grappling with political inst…
‘Criminally reckless’: why LA’s urban sprawl made wildfires inevitable – and how it should rebuild
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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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