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The Western Antarctic Peninsula is warming five times faster than the global rate, with average winter temperatures 7 °C higher today than in 1950. But it remains a challenging environment for scientists, explains wildlife technician and conservation biologist Naira de Gracia in her exuberant memoir of five months studying penguins there in 2016–17.

The world has some 21,000 distinct bee species; a bee can pollinate as many as 10,000 flowers daily; and its brain houses only one million neurons, compared with at least 80 billion neurons in the human brain. Yet bees are “self-aware, they’re sentient, and they possibly have a primitive form of consciousness”, he writes., an action-adventure graphic novel with broad appeal. Its latest graphic novel, visualized by Robin Cousin and translated from his French text, is much more specialized.

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