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Naira de Gracia

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Naira de Gracia grew up moving around the world with her journalist parents and sibling. She has worked as a wildlife technician on remote islands in the Hawaiian chain, the Antarctic, the Samoan archipelago, the Bering Sea, and off the coast of California, and is the author of The Last Cold Place.

Zoology

Thousands of Penguin Chicks Lost at Sea

Scientists monitoring emperor penguins in Antarctica recorded an unprecedented tragedy.

August 31, 2023
Zoology

My Life with the Penguins

How I came to feel at home in what some call the last wilderness on Earth—Antarctica.

April 19, 2023