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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Stingless bees in Peru become the first insects with legal rights. Will it happen globally?

Liz Kimbrough 17 Jun 2026

Global map of Earth’s mycorrhizal fungal networks could help protect them

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jun 2026

Taiwan’s tallest tree found with help of citizen science

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jun 2026

‘World’s deepest banner protest’ launched at the bottom of the sea

Liz Kimbrough 28 May 2026

In Kyrgyzstan, a climate-ready corridor gives snow leopards and herders room to roam

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2026

Light pollution reshapes predator-prey dynamics at California’s urban edge, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 15 May 2026
Male cock-of-the-rock birds in Peru's Kosñipata valley. Image credit: Rhett A. Butler

Climate change could erase most South American cloud forests, study warns

Liz Kimbrough 7 May 2026
2026 winner of the Goldman Environmental Prize. Image courtesy of Goldman Environmental Prize.

Meet the 2026 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 20 Apr 2026

A chimpanzee’s rhythmic drumming with floorboards hints at origins of instruments

Liz Kimbrough 16 Apr 2026
Collage of the 24 new Amphipod species identified in Clarion-Clipperton Zone, CC BY, National Oceanography Centre, Southampton

24 new species found in ocean zone eyed for battery metals mining

Liz Kimbrough 9 Apr 2026

In Laos, ancestral spirits are helping save one of the world’s rarest crocodiles

Liz Kimbrough 25 Mar 2026

California condors nesting in Pacific Northwest for first time in a century, on Yurok territory

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2026

Should potentially harmful chemicals be appraised by class, not one at a time?

Liz Kimbrough 19 Mar 2026

A bonobo named Kanzi could play pretend, challenging ideas about animal imaginations

Liz Kimbrough 18 Mar 2026
An Indochinese tiger. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

The Wild League aims to turn sports mascots into conservation champions

Liz Kimbrough 11 Mar 2026

Climate change is slowing southern right whale birth rate, 33-year study finds

Liz Kimbrough 27 Feb 2026

Mummified cheetahs found in Saudi caves could shape rewilding plans

Liz Kimbrough 26 Feb 2026
Soil-dwelling springtails - tiny, insect-like arthropods of the class Collembola - are vulnerable to pesticides. Image by Alandmanson via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Pesticides found in 70% of European soils, harming beneficial life: Study

Liz Kimbrough 6 Feb 2026

Lower levels of PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ in North Atlantic whales show regulations work: Study

Liz Kimbrough 3 Feb 2026
a newly hatched Rote Island snake-necked turtles (Chelodina mccordi) at the turtle survival center in South Carolina USA. Photo by Liz Kimbrough

The Turtle Bank: The last of these Asian turtle species find refuge in the Carolina pines

Liz Kimbrough 28 Jan 2026

Photos: Kew Gardens’ top 10 newly named plants and fungi for 2025

Liz Kimbrough 12 Jan 2026

From sea slugs to sunflowers, California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species in 2025

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jan 2026

Deep-sea ‘hotels’ reveal 20 new species hiding in Pacific Ocean twilight zone near Guam

Liz Kimbrough 31 Dec 2025

Photos: Top new species from 2025

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2025

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

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