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Cardiac arrests, horns and 1.4 tonnes of muscle: here’s how to move a rhino – in pictures | Environment

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The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has successfully translocated 21 eastern black rhinos to a region where they have been extinct for 50 years. Here’s how they caught, transported and released these critically endangered creatures to their new home Photos by Ami Vitale Main image: The operation not only underscores Kenya’s conservation triumph but also signifies … Read more

Scientists Have Been Freezing Corals for Decades. Now They’re Learning How to Wake Them Up

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This story originally appeared in Hakai and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Arah Narida leans over a microscope to gaze into a plastic petri dish containing a hood coral. The animal—a pebbled blue-white disk roughly half the size of a pencil eraser—is a marvel. Just three weeks ago, the coral was smaller than … Read more