Liz Kimbrough

Senior Staff Writer

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Liz Kimbrough is a senior staff writer for Mongabay. She has written about science and environmental issues for over a decade and holds a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Tulane University. For updates on her work, follow her on Twitter via @lizkimbrough_ .

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‘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
Scarlet macaws in the Maya Biosphere Reserve. Photo by USAID Guatemala via Flickr. (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

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

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2022

Trees and soil at the forest’s edge store more carbon than we thought, studies reveal

Liz Kimbrough 20 Apr 2022

Of rats and bats: Hundreds of mammal species still unidentified, study says

Liz Kimbrough 13 Apr 2022

How much does air travel warm the planet? New study gives a figure

Liz Kimbrough 6 Apr 2022
Composite image. Left: Amazon rainforest - photo credit: Rhett A. Butler. Right: Burning forest in the Brazilian Amazon - image credit: Greenpeace

‘Giving up’: Amazon is losing its resilience under human pressure, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2022

World’s biggest tropical crop bank opens in Colombia, taking food research high tech

Liz Kimbrough 18 Mar 2022

Spectacular new fish species is first to be named by Maldivian scientist

Liz Kimbrough 11 Mar 2022

‘Comical’ bat not seen in 40 years is found again in a Rwandan park

Liz Kimbrough 8 Mar 2022

Chocolate frog? New burrowing frog species unearthed in Amazon’s rare peatlands

Liz Kimbrough 28 Feb 2022
A bald eagle in Alaska by Andy Morffew via Wikipedia (CC BY 2.0).

A shot to the gut: American eagles poisoned by lead from bullets

Liz Kimbrough 18 Feb 2022

Air pollution makes it tough for pollinators to stop and smell the flowers

Liz Kimbrough 10 Feb 2022

Sixty of one, half a dozen of the other: Rare magnolias get a new start in Ecuador’s Chocó

Liz Kimbrough, Maxwell Radwin 31 Jan 2022

Western monarchs make a spectacular comeback in California

Liz Kimbrough 27 Jan 2022
A Bohemian waxwing takes off with a fruit in its bill. (Photo by Christine Johnson)

As animals vanish, the plants they spread can’t keep pace with climate change

Liz Kimbrough 19 Jan 2022

In Panama, a tiny rainfrog named after Greta Thunberg endures

Liz Kimbrough 11 Jan 2022

Not your ordinary houseplant: World’s tallest begonia found in Tibet

Liz Kimbrough 7 Jan 2022

As its topsoil washes away, the Corn Belt is losing yields — and carbon

Liz Kimbrough 31 Dec 2021
Fire line moves through a degraded forest area in an undesignated public forest area in Porto Velho, Rondônia on July 29, 2021. Photo © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Mongabay’s top Amazon stories from 2021

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2021

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021

Camera trap study shows conservation efforts ‘are working’ on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula: Video

Liz Kimbrough 13 Dec 2021

The complete guide to restoring your soil: Q&A with soil expert Dale Strickler

Liz Kimbrough 29 Nov 2021

Meet Magali, the conservation warrior rescuing Peru’s rainforest animals: Video

Liz Kimbrough 26 Nov 2021

New Himalayan snake found via Instagram

Liz Kimbrough 18 Nov 2021

The last spotted ground thrush on Malawi’s lonely mountain

Liz Kimbrough 15 Nov 2021

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