Abhishyant Kidangoor

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Abhishyant is a staff writer with a focus on conservation technology.

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The team that developed the kit has put it into the hands of conservationists to collect samples from lakes across Vietnam.

Can a new DNA test save the world’s rarest turtle?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 Feb 2025

INQUIRE, a dataset and evaluation tool, gauges how AI models perform when asked to extract extra information from wildlife photos captured by citizen scientists. The three images (above), showing hermit frogs caught in plastic trash, were clicked by citizen scientists and were used to train the dataset. Images by mferrla (left), anacarohdez (middle) and lexthelearner (right)/iNaturalist.

AI can already identify species in photos. Can it extract even more data?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 5 Feb 2025

A golden shrimp plant (Pachystachys lutea) in Missouri Botanical Garden.

Digitizing 6 million plant specimens: Interview with Gunter Fischer & Jordan Teisher

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Jan 2025

Data from transmitters helped the team identify corridors that are critical for the movements of the thick-billed parrots, which are endangered birds endemic to Mexico.

Satellite ‘backpacks’ help keep track of parrot migration in Mexico

Abhishyant Kidangoor 16 Jan 2025

A mushroom on the forest floor.

One atlas to map all ecosystems on Earth: Interview with Yana Gevorgyan

Abhishyant Kidangoor 9 Jan 2025

‘We have incredible & applicable solutions’: Interview with Peter Houlihan of XPRIZE

Abhishyant Kidangoor 10 Dec 2024

Rainforest in Gabon surrounded by Ivindo River.

Satellites and lidar get AI boost to count forest carbon stock worldwide

Abhishyant Kidangoor 9 Dec 2024

Mangroves in Raja Ampat.

How are mangrove restoration projects doing? Interview with Tom Worthington

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Dec 2024

World Forest ID collects samples from around the world and uses chemical and genetic profiling techniques to create a database that classifies timber and other plants based on their location of origin.

Using science to fight deforestation: Interview with World Forest ID’s Jade Saunders & Andrew Lowe

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Nov 2024

Five-year rainforest tech competition culminates with four winners

Abhishyant Kidangoor 20 Nov 2024

A rhino.

Tracking footprints to monitor wildlife: Interview with WildTrack’s Zoe Jewell

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Nov 2024

Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica

Satellite firm Planet’s ‘biodiversity subscription’ aims to make tech accessible

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Oct 2024

What are the High Seas (and why should we care?)

Abhishyant Kidangoor 23 Oct 2024

A European blackbird.

New study upends common belief that birds escape winter to save energy

Abhishyant Kidangoor 21 Oct 2024

An inventory for acoustic monitoring: Interview with Kevin Darras

An inventory for acoustic monitoring: Interview with Kevin Darras

Abhishyant Kidangoor 5 Oct 2024

Third edition of Satellites for Biodiversity Award opens for applications

Abhishyant Kidangoor 2 Oct 2024

A white rhino in Kenya.

Patent filings help scientists predict patterns in wildlife trade

Abhishyant Kidangoor 30 Sep 2024

Scientists have produced possibly the largest database of GPS-collared elephants containing 4 million data points.

Jumbo collaring effort reveals key elephant movement corridors

Abhishyant Kidangoor 25 Sep 2024

Egyptian fruit bat

Scientists find unexpected biodiversity in an African river, thanks to eDNA

Abhishyant Kidangoor 6 Sep 2024

At the ‘Biodiversity Olympics,’ scientists work to democratize rainforest tech

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Aug 2024

A tree in the Serengeti grasslands in Tanzania.

Blockchain as a carbon market fix: Interview with William ten Zijthoff, Flávia De Souza Mendes & Maximilian Rösgen

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 Aug 2024

An ice shelf and the sea in Greenland.

High-resolution maps reveal surprises about how ice shelves melt

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Aug 2024

Common zebra (Equus quagga) in Kriger National Park, South Africa.

The Inventory, a Wiki for wild tech: Interview with Jake Burton & Alex Rood

Abhishyant Kidangoor 30 Jul 2024

The two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifts off Space Launch Complex 40 carrying the SpaceX’s Dragon resupply spacecraft to the ISS.

Space mission that maps forests in 3D makes an early comeback

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Jul 2024

Red diamond rattlesnakes, native to southwest California in the U.S. and Baja California in Mexico, are important predators in their ecosystems.

Studying snakes without rattling them? There’s now tech for that

Abhishyant Kidangoor 28 Jun 2024

A dragonfly perched on a leaf in Thailand.

Reimagining insect research: Interview with Roel van Klink and Leandro Nascimento

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Jun 2024

A Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra) at a lake.

Crowdsourcing eDNA for biodiversity monitoring: Interview with Kristy Deiner

Abhishyant Kidangoor 14 Jun 2024

A reforested mangrove forest in Thailand.

As Big Tech eyes the carbon market, will it work this time?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 5 Jun 2024

To wipe or to wash? That is the question

Abhishyant Kidangoor, Sandy Watt 31 May 2024

A chacma baboon in Zambia.

Collar cameras shed light on quirky baboon diet

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 May 2024

Forest clearing for soy in Parecis in the state of Rondonia

New satellite data documents deforestation across ecosystems worldwide

Abhishyant Kidangoor 20 May 2024

Rainforest in the Colombian Amazon

AI model maps global tree canopy heights in hi-res, with carbon counting in mind

Abhishyant Kidangoor 30 Apr 2024

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