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A palm tree stands tall in a forest in Costa Rica.

More than half of palm species may be threatened with extinction, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 9 Nov 2022
A black river turtle on a log

For water quality, even a sliver of riverbank forest is better than none

Liz Kimbrough 27 Oct 2022

Beef is still coming from protected areas in the Amazon, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 18 Oct 2022

Heat-sensing drone cameras spy threats to sea turtle nests

Liz Kimbrough 17 Oct 2022

Toxic new frog species from Ecuador named after Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane

Liz Kimbrough 10 Oct 2022

A new method assesses health of Chile’s headwaters, and it’s not good news

Liz Kimbrough 30 Sep 2022

The mystery of narwhal behavior, solved by chaos theory

Liz Kimbrough 23 Sep 2022
Fire near the Manicoré River in Amazonas state in August 2022. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

How close is the Amazon tipping point? Forest loss in the east changes the equation

Liz Kimbrough 20 Sep 2022

More droughts are coming, and the Amazon can’t keep up: Study

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2022

Eight new-to-science geckos described from biodiversity haven Madagascar

Liz Kimbrough 15 Sep 2022

Tiny new tree frog species found in rewilded Costa Rican nature reserve

Liz Kimbrough 9 Sep 2022
Lowland tropical rainforest

Protecting global forests with a limited budget? New study shows where and when to start

Liz Kimbrough 31 Aug 2022

Seeing through the swarm: How hawks hunt bat prey

Liz Kimbrough 23 Aug 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burning throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

Forest fires are getting worse, 20 years of data confirm

Liz Kimbrough 17 Aug 2022

An emerald-green hummingbird lost to science reemerges in Colombia

Liz Kimbrough 16 Aug 2022

Bolivia’s former ‘death road’ is now a haven for wildlife

Liz Kimbrough 12 Aug 2022
Dipterocarp_tree

‘Protection too small, pressure too high’ for tree species globally, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 11 Aug 2022

In Japanese waters, a newly described anemone lives on the back of a hermit crab

Liz Kimbrough 2 Aug 2022
Scarlet tanager. Photo by Jen Goellnitz via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0)

Shade-grown coffee won’t support all birds, but adding a forest helps: Study

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jul 2022

Monarch butterflies are officially endangered

Liz Kimbrough 21 Jul 2022
Franco Ivan Macedo Tafur, a member of the Amazon mangrove research team

First-of-its-kind freshwater mangroves discovered in Brazil’s Amazon Delta

Liz Kimbrough 20 Jul 2022
Danaea alansmithii Colombia, Amazonas, Río Caquetá. PHOTO: HANNA TUOMISTO

Between six ferns: New tropical fern species described by science

Liz Kimbrough 19 Jul 2022
The bright-orange Tubastraea dendroida is named for its unique tree-like branching shape.

Colorful new corals bedeck the busy waters off Hong Kong, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 11 Jul 2022

‘Beenome’ project aims to boost bee conservation with genetic mapping

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jun 2022
A Brachycephalus ephippium on leaves

Pumpkin toadlets can’t jump: The frog that gave up balance for size

Liz Kimbrough 24 Jun 2022

Study: Regenerative farming boosts soil health, yielding more nutritious crops

Liz Kimbrough 3 Jun 2022
Crotch’s bumble bee (Bombus crotchii) on milkweed flowers

California court ruling opens door for protection of insects as endangered species

Liz Kimbrough 2 Jun 2022
A blue-grey tanager

Repeated fires are silencing the Amazon, says new acoustic monitoring study

Liz Kimbrough 26 May 2022

Meet the 2022 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 25 May 2022
A spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus), also known as the Andean bear.

Researchers compile largest-ever photo database of Amazon wildlife

Liz Kimbrough 20 May 2022
The Terra do Meio Ecological Station, near the Triunfo do Xingu Environmental Protected Area, is home to margays (Leopardus wiedii), small wild cats native to South and Central America. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Pasture replaces large tract of intact primary forest in Brazilian protected area

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2022

Conservation costs are rarely reported, making it difficult to prioritize funding

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2022

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