Liz Kimbrough

Liz Kimbrough

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Liz Kimbrough is a staff writer for Mongabay. 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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In the Scottish moorlands, plots planted with trees stored less carbon than untouched lands: Study

Liz Kimbrough 18 Aug 2020
Hotspot directly in the forest, next to a freshly deforested area, with Deter warning, in Alta Floresta, Mato Grosso state. © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

More than 260 major, mostly illegal Amazon fires detected since late May

Liz Kimbrough 13 Aug 2020

New Indigenous storytelling platform brings community perspectives to the world

Liz Kimbrough 10 Aug 2020

More than 500 dams planned inside protected areas: Study

Liz Kimbrough 5 Aug 2020

Amazonia’s people domesticated crops on ‘forest islands’ 10,000 years ago: Study

Liz Kimbrough 31 Jul 2020

A jaguar nicknamed “Short-Tail” the first known to cross between Belize and Guatemala

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jul 2020

Bubbles, lasers and robo-bees: The blossoming industry of artificial pollination

Liz Kimbrough 24 Jul 2020

The wild plants in your pantry—where did they come from?

Liz Kimbrough 20 Jul 2020

Sounding the alarm about illegal logging? There’s an app for that

Liz Kimbrough 17 Jul 2020
Glass frog in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Rainforest Alliance Certification gets a 2020 upgrade

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 2020

Turtles and tortoises in trouble: More than half of all species face extinction

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jul 2020

For investors concerned about deforestation, there’s a guide for that

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jun 2020
Camera trap image of a wild ass by Kirk Olson/WCS.

Animal crossing: A wild ass makes history

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2020

Forests are a solution to climate change. They’re also vulnerable to it

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jun 2020

Less than a thousand remain: New list of animals on the brink of extinction

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jun 2020

Baby humpback whales bulk up in Hawaii ahead of migration [VIDEO]

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jun 2020

Does Lucius Fox know? Tiny tech tracks bats (and more)

Liz Kimbrough 3 Jun 2020

Spiny lobsters raise an undersea racket that can be heard miles away

Liz Kimbrough 27 May 2020

For Amazon indigenous facing COVID-19, distance to ICU beds poses dire threat

Liz Kimbrough 22 May 2020

Tigers threatened by a vast network of planned roads across Asia

Liz Kimbrough 21 May 2020

Historic agreement gives monarch butterflies the ‘right-of-way’

Liz Kimbrough 20 May 2020

Disaster interrupted: How you can help save the insects

Liz Kimbrough 15 May 2020

Legendary entomologist Terry Erwin passes away at age 79

Liz Kimbrough 15 May 2020

Large indigenous territories are necessary for culture and biodiversity in Brazil, study says

Liz Kimbrough 13 May 2020

Insects decline on land, fare better in water, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 8 May 2020

‘Hummingbird’ spy creature films millions of monarchs taking flight

Liz Kimbrough 1 May 2020

Birds in Amazon forest fragments: New study summarizes 40 years of research

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2020

One point for Slytherin: New Indian pit viper named after Harry Potter character

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2020

Flamingos form lasting friendships, a new study finds

Liz Kimbrough 28 Apr 2020

Trendy, cheap, and dirty: Fashion is a top global polluter

Liz Kimbrough 23 Apr 2020

Decade after BP Deepwater Horizon spill, oil drilling is as dangerous as ever

Liz Kimbrough 20 Apr 2020

Low-cost satellite forest monitoring for all: Q&A with CLASlite creator Greg Asner

Liz Kimbrough 16 Apr 2020

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