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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Western spotted skunk (Spilogale gracilis). Image by Robby Heischman courtesy of the Field Museum.

Pepé Le New: Meet the acrobatic spotted skunks of North America

Liz Kimbrough 15 Sep 2021

New coating could help seeds survive in drought conditions

Liz Kimbrough 2 Sep 2021

Cost of wetlands: Free. Storm damage they prevent: $38 million per estuary.

Liz Kimbrough 31 Aug 2021

A bouquet of discovery: Three new orchid species described from Ecuador

Liz Kimbrough 20 Aug 2021

In Brazil’s Acre, smoke from fires threatens health, could worsen COVID-19

Liz Kimbrough 18 Aug 2021

A bad fire year predicted in Brazil’s Acre state. What’s to be done?

Liz Kimbrough 17 Aug 2021

New species of “killer tobacco” found at Australian truck stop

Liz Kimbrough 11 Aug 2021

Black Death aside, we know surprisingly little about rodents and disease

Liz Kimbrough 9 Aug 2021

More than 250 major fires detected in the Amazon this year, despite Brazil’s ban

Liz Kimbrough 3 Aug 2021

Rare pygmy chameleon, lost to science, found in dwindling Malawi forest

Liz Kimbrough 3 Aug 2021

In Sierra Leone, two colorful land crabs rediscovered, two new species found

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jul 2021
Rainforest creek in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Hartree Partners to channel $2 billion toward new carbon credits

Liz Kimbrough 28 Jul 2021

Global restoration now has an online meeting point

Liz Kimbrough 23 Jul 2021

Protected areas keep adjacent lands safe, but face losing their own protection

Liz Kimbrough 21 Jul 2021
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

Brazil’s Amazon is now a carbon source, unprecedented study reveals

Liz Kimbrough 14 Jul 2021

Soy and cattle team up to drive deforestation in South America: Study

Liz Kimbrough 12 Jul 2021

Fire season intensifies in the Brazilian Amazon, feeding off deforestation

Liz Kimbrough 1 Jul 2021

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
Staff member of the Kinesi nursery planting seedlings in the pots, August 2019 ©WeForest

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

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