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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When it comes to carbon capture, tree invasions can do more harm than good

Liz Kimbrough 21 Jun 2021

Meet the 2021 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jun 2021
Colorado's East Troublesome Fire, on October 22, 2020, which jumped the Continental Divide and eventually became Colorado's largest fire on record, at nearly 200,000 acres. NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey.

Rocky Mountains are burning more now than ever, and it could get worse

Liz Kimbrough 14 Jun 2021

U.N. declares decade of ecosystem restoration to ‘make peace with nature’

Liz Kimbrough 11 Jun 2021
Jaguars still roam the Chaco, but they require large tracts of contiguous forest to survive and reproduce. As forest is destroyed, fewer of these intact landscapes exist. Photo by Eduardo Merille via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0).

New areas of primary forest cleared in Brazil’s ‘lawless’ Lábrea

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jun 2021
Live hotspots in areas with Prodes 2019 and Deter warnings, in Colniza, Mato Grosso state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

The Brazilian Amazon is burning, again

Liz Kimbrough 3 Jun 2021

Declining fish biodiversity in Peruvian Amazon affecting human nutrition

Liz Kimbrough 28 May 2021

New clearing of forest in protected area in Brazil linked to mining

Liz Kimbrough 27 May 2021
Neotropical river otter by Sabrina Bettoni

Chirp, chuckle and growl: Neotropical river otters call out to communicate

Liz Kimbrough 26 May 2021

Click here to plant a tree: Q&A with Ecosia’s Pieter van Midwood

Liz Kimbrough 18 May 2021

How to pick a tree-planting project? Mongabay launches transparency tool to help supporters decide

Liz Kimbrough 17 May 2021
Black Lion Tamarin

How settlers, scientists, and a women-led industry saved Brazil’s rarest primate

Liz Kimbrough 14 May 2021
The new krait species Bungarus suzhenae. Photo by Dr Li Ding (CC-BY 4.0).

Deadly new snake named after mythical Chinese goddess of healing

Liz Kimbrough 21 Apr 2021

Cattle-driven clearing continues in Brazil’s Triunfo do Xingu protected area

Liz Kimbrough 16 Apr 2021
Deforestation in Indonesian Borneo in 2019. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

JPMorgan Chase expanding deforestation policies under shareholder pressure

Liz Kimbrough 13 Apr 2021
The new chameleon species, Trioceros wolfgangboehmei

Spiny new chameleon species described from Bale Mountains of Ethiopia

Liz Kimbrough 6 Apr 2021

Two new species of endangered screech owls identified from Brazil

Liz Kimbrough 1 Apr 2021

Only 6.5% of global forests are adequately protected, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 31 Mar 2021

Battle at the bat box: Camera trap captures ocelot standoff in restored forest

Liz Kimbrough 29 Mar 2021
Fireflies synchronize their flashing to find a mate. Image by Fred Huang via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

New assessment shines a light on the state of North America’s fireflies

Liz Kimbrough 26 Mar 2021
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

We have turned the Amazon into a net greenhouse gas emitter: Study

Liz Kimbrough 19 Mar 2021
Sahana Ghosh quote

Mongabay-India editor recognized among ‘16 Women Restoring the Earth’

Liz Kimbrough 8 Mar 2021

As forests shrink, mammals are stressed out— with possible fallout for humans

Liz Kimbrough 15 Feb 2021

More meat and playtime can calm your killer kitty

Liz Kimbrough 15 Feb 2021

Nearly one-third of all oak species threatened with extinction, report says

Liz Kimbrough 12 Feb 2021

Ending tropical deforestation is vital to public health, scientists say

Liz Kimbrough 5 Feb 2021

New approaches needed to protect biodiversity as Aichi Targets go unmet

Liz Kimbrough 3 Feb 2021

Current protected areas not enough to save parrots from extinction: Study

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jan 2021

Lasers find forest gaps to aid tree mortality studies in Brazilian Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 26 Jan 2021
shiny green beetle

Death by 1,000 cuts: Are major insect losses imperiling life on Earth?

Liz Kimbrough 25 Jan 2021

‘Spectacular’ orange-furred bat described from West African mountain

Liz Kimbrough 21 Jan 2021
Photo: The newly discovered orchid, Epidendrum katarun-yariku. Image courtesy of Mateusz Wrazidlo.

New orchid species from Guiana Highlands named by Indigenous group

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jan 2021

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