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After thousands of rare Chilean cacti were found in the house of an Italian collector, a years-long trial slowly unravelled how they got there.
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Award-winning freelance journalist covering all things science, nature and how we talk about them. Work in @nytimes @natgeo @guardian @newscientist
Sofia Quaglia’s Journalist Portfolio
View as a gridIs this the end for Easter Island's moai statues?
BBC
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Easter Island's famous moai statues are crumbling into the sea, forcing locals to face urgent decisions about how best to protect their heritage.
'If we can't fish any more, we're going to die': the volunteer sea patrols protecting precious Ph...
The Guardian
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Dedicated groups called Bantay Dagat aim to conserve the abundant marine life surrounding their thousands of islands, which has been under pressure for years from intensive overfishing
'I saw them as monsters and man-eaters': Saving the world's rarest crocodile from its bad reputat...
BBC
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It's known for its deadly bite, but the Philippine crocodile - thought to be the rarest in the world - has a lot more to give than it gets credit for.
Inside the green construction job that workers are dying to leave
Grist
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It was just before dawn as seven bulky men in T-shirts and sweatpants gathered in front of a towering glass building on Lexington Avenue in New York City. Marcelo Crespo, a 41-year-old with gleaming green eyes and a goatee, beckoned the group over to a white company van, handing each man a pile of protective gear: face mask and respirators, full-body coveralls, shoe covers, hard hats, masking tape.
How the brains of social animals synchronise and expand one another | Aeon Essays
aeon
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Humans are not the only creatures that show a refined grasp of social norms. If a group of adult male rhesus monkeys ( Macaca mulatta) find themselves sitting around a turning table set with food, they will display an 'I scratch your back, you scratch mine' ethos of reciprocity.
Rafflesia Guardians Give Endangered Corpse Flower New Life - Atmos
Atmos
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A crew of Rafflesia enthusiasts are racing against the clock to save the corpse flower-the largest flower in the world-from extinction.
Doulas Are Key to Curbing Maternal Mortality - But They're Drastically Underpaid
truthout.org
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The first time doctors saw Laginne Gianina Walker's ultrasound, they accidentally read it backwards. They told her the boy's organs were all upside-down. An ob-gyn counseled her to consider an abortion. It was a frigid day in early February 2016 in downtown Manhattan.
Lost in translation: is research into species being missed because of a language barrier?
The Guardian
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Valeria Ramírez Castañeda, a Colombian biologist, spends her time in the Amazon studying how snakes eat poisonous frogs without getting ill. Although her findings come in many shapes and sizes, in her years as a researcher, she and her colleagues have struggled to get their biological discoveries out to the wider scientific community.
Efforts to resurrect the extinct Tasmanian tiger get a boost
National Geographic
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Some scientists argue that bringing the marsupial predator back could help restore its former ecosystems. But is "de-extinction" realistic?