Liz Kimbrough

Liz Kimbrough

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Liz Kimbrough is a staff writer for Mongabay based in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She has written about science and environmental issues since 2012 and holds a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from Tulane University where she studied the microbiomes of trees.

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Tropical forests in Australia are emitting more carbon than they capture: Study

Liz Kimbrough 23 Dec 2025

Taboo against harming strangler fig spirits protects forests in Indonesian Borneo

Liz Kimbrough 22 Dec 2025
Galaxy frog in the Western Ghats, India, with photo taken by conservationist Rajkumar K P as part of conservation project (c) Rajkumar K P ZSL .jpg

Photo tourism threatens rare galaxy frog population in India’s Western Ghats

Liz Kimbrough 18 Dec 2025

Women scatter seeds, restore forests in Guinea, the ‘water tower of West Africa’

Liz Kimbrough 16 Dec 2025
A cordycep dealer.

The vanishing pharmacy: How climate change is reshaping traditional medicine

Liz Kimbrough 15 Dec 2025

Solar-lights protect sea turtles from fishing nets, Mexico trials show

Liz Kimbrough 28 Nov 2025

Deep-diving manta rays use the ocean’s midnight zone to build mental maps, study suggests

Liz Kimbrough 26 Nov 2025

Rare parrots return to Atlantic Forest fragment after decades of silence

Liz Kimbrough 13 Nov 2025
Tree Aid’s efforts as part of the Great Green Wall has resulted in planting nearly 28 million trees in the region so far.

New directory helps donors navigate the complex world of global reforestation

Liz Kimbrough 12 Nov 2025

Armored worms and death-ball sponges among array of life newly documented from the deep sea

Liz Kimbrough 5 Nov 2025

First documented case of plant smelling like an ant to attract pollinators

Liz Kimbrough 30 Oct 2025

Nuns, scientists & microchips: An alliance to save Mexico’s achoque salamanders

Liz Kimbrough 27 Oct 2025

Losing Nemo: In the Red Sea, clownfish vanish as anemones bleach

Liz Kimbrough 14 Oct 2025

Wildfire smoke could kill 71,000 people per year in the US by 2050, study warns

Liz Kimbrough 8 Oct 2025

Consider the scorpions

Liz Kimbrough 30 Sep 2025

Alaskan rivers turn orange as permafrost thaws, threatening fish and communities

Liz Kimbrough 25 Sep 2025
A Baird's tapir.

Animals that spread seeds are critical for climate solutions

Liz Kimbrough 19 Sep 2025

Growing trees on farms boosts nutrition in rural Malawi

Liz Kimbrough 17 Sep 2025

Rainwater reveals the hidden life of rainforest canopies, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 9 Sep 2025
Newly hatched Socorro doves at Chester Zoo. Image courtesy of Chester Zoo.

Newly hatched Socorro dove chicks bring hope to species extinct in the wild

Liz Kimbrough 29 Aug 2025

Brazil’s Atlantic Forest still losing ‘large amounts’ of mature forest, despite legal protection

Liz Kimbrough 28 Aug 2025

Leopard seals sing songs similar to nursery rhymes, study

Liz Kimbrough 19 Aug 2025

New report warns 54% of turtles and tortoises are at risk of extinction

Liz Kimbrough 15 Aug 2025

How a gecko species defied extinction on a Galápagos island

Liz Kimbrough 8 Aug 2025

Global maps reveal where mycorrhizal fungi thrive — and where they’re unprotected

Liz Kimbrough 4 Aug 2025
Black-rhino-a-Critically-Endangered-species-c-ZSL.jpg

More than 10,000 species on brink of extinction need urgent action: Study

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jul 2025

2,000 species at high risk of extinction from natural disasters, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jul 2025
The Barbados threadsnake, a species lost to science for 20 years, was found during an ecological survey on Barbados by the Barbados Ministry of the Environment and National Beautification and Re:wild in March 2025. Image courtesy of Connor Blades

World’s smallest snake spotted by scientists in Barbados after 20-year absence

Liz Kimbrough 23 Jul 2025
Tropical forests in places like Costa Rica (pictured) can be an important source of livelihoods by attracting nature-oriented tourists. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Nearly half of tree species in Mexico and Central America threatened with extinction

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jul 2025
Drought in Bangladesh.

Droughts are a ‘slow-moving global catastrophe,’ report finds

Liz Kimbrough 7 Jul 2025
A family of mountain gorillas resting together, in Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda. Resting in physical contact is an indicator of close social relationships and tolerance in gorillas. Image credit: Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund.

Friendship benefits male and female mountain gorillas differently, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 27 Jun 2025
wo whales allokelping, with a small length of kelp stem visible between them. Center for Whale Research, NMFS NOAA Permit 27038

Orcas discovered making tools from seaweed to ‘massage’ each other

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2025

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