Elizabeth Claire Alberts

Elizabeth Claire Alberts

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Elizabeth C. Alberts is a staff writer for Mongabay. For updates on her work, follow her on Twitter via @ECAlberts.

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New land snail species discovered in Hawaii offers ‘gem of hope’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Aug 2020

Illegal trade of Philippine pangolins is surging, report shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Aug 2020

For tool-wielding chimps of Ebo Forest, logging plan is a ‘death sentence’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jul 2020

Migratory freshwater fish in peril as report shows population plunge

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jul 2020

Sharks are ‘functionally extinct’ in many global reef systems, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Jul 2020
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burning throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

Photos show scale of massive fires tearing through Siberian forests

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Jul 2020

Narwhals beware: Killer whales are on the rise in the Arctic

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Jul 2020

Sea turtles often lose their way, but always reach their destination

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 21 Jul 2020

Sediment plumes from deep-sea mining could pollute vast swaths of the ocean, scientists say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 Jul 2020

Sea temperature a critical factor in success of coral reef outplants

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 17 Jul 2020
A plastic beverage bottle floats in the shallow waters of Sand Island in Hawaii. Image by David Slater / NOAA Coral Reef Ecosystem Program Marine Debris Team, 2015.

‘Our life is plasticized’: New research shows microplastics in our food, water, air

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Jul 2020

Camera snaps first ever glimpse of a troop of the world’s rarest gorilla

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jul 2020

That coconut oil you love? Species have gone extinct over it, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Jul 2020

Drug trafficking could be putting ‘fragile fisheries’ at risk, study says

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Jul 2020

Treetop cameras capture first known video of a wild roloway monkey

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Jul 2020

Tigers caught on camera lounging in a Jacuzzi-sized watering hole

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 Jun 2020

The first modern-day marine fish has officially gone extinct. More may follow

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 26 Jun 2020

Did China really ban the pangolin trade? Not quite, investigators say

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Jun 2020

‘It’s a success’: Pangolins return to a region where they were once extinct

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Jun 2020

Mercury with that? Shark fins served with illegal doses of heavy metals

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 19 Jun 2020

‘Rafiki’s trust was betrayed’: Q&A with conservationist Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 18 Jun 2020

Coral reef loss helps some fish grow bigger, but perhaps not for long

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Jun 2020

Deep-sea mining: An environmental solution or impending catastrophe?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Jun 2020

An armada of turtles, caught on drone cam, flocks to the Great Barrier Reef

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Jun 2020

Banned: No more pangolin scales in traditional medicine, China declares

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jun 2020

Scientists agree on the need to protect 30% of the seas. But which 30%?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Jun 2020

Caught on camera: Rare finless porpoises sighted in Hong Kong waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Jun 2020

Prized as pets, are ball pythons being traded out of wild existence?

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 29 May 2020

When the world’s rarest primate couples up, it’s a win for the species

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 28 May 2020

‘New’ footage released of the last Tasmanian tiger

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 26 May 2020

Slow and steady: Sea turtles mount a long-term recovery

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 22 May 2020

China offers buyouts to wildlife farmers in response to pandemic

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 20 May 2020

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White rhyolite spires on the shores of Jodogahama Beach in Miyako, Japan. Iwate prefecture. These spires are estimated to be around 45 million years old, and form a natural version of a Japanese garden. This beach is part of the Sanriku Fukkō National Park. It was incorporated into this national park as a reconstruction effort following the Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. Photo by Mike DiGirolamo/Mongabay.
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