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					<title>Marine biologist Edie Widder chases bioluminescence in new ‘Life Illuminated’ film</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/marine-biologist-edie-widder-chases-bioluminescence-in-new-life-illuminated-film/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/marine-biologist-edie-widder-chases-bioluminescence-in-new-life-illuminated-film/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>12 Mar 2026 14:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Beyond the screen: DCEFF]]>
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							<![CDATA[Atlantic Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Bioluminescence, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Film, Fish, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, Oceans, Research, Saltwater Fish, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The documentary A Life Illuminated will make its Washington, D.C., premiere on March 19, the first night of the D.C. Environmental Film Festival, where Mongabay is a media partner. The film traces the career arc of U.S. marine biologist Edie Widder, an expert on bioluminescence who’s made headlines for decades, and documents her team’s attempt [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The documentary A Life Illuminated will make its Washington, D.C., premiere on March 19, the first night of the D.C. Environmental Film Festival, where Mongabay is a media partner. The film traces the career arc of U.S. marine biologist Edie Widder, an expert on bioluminescence who’s made headlines for decades, and documents her team’s attempt to capture a remarkable deep-water phenomenon called “flashback” on camera. The film, directed by U.S. documentary filmmaker Tasha Van Zandt, has been on the film festival circuit since September, when it made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. In the film, Widder meditates on the importance of the deep sea, which usually refers to waters below 200 meters (660 feet) in depth, a zone many experts call the world’s largest habitat. In the deep sea, most creatures can emit light, a trait few land-dwelling animals possess. (Fireflies are a notable exception.) The film’s plot toggles between previous Widder expeditions and a recent one to the waters off the Azores, a Portuguese-administered archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, to document flashback. The term refers to the way a wide variety of organisms, from the macro to the micro, will simultaneously light up in response to a flash of light from, say, a submersible. Those who’ve witnessed the phenomenon speak about it with awe: Before the flashback, the sea is pitch-black to the human eye, a seeming void. The flashback then envelops the submersible in an ephemeral snowstorm. Edie Widder, a marine biologist and bioluminescence&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/03/marine-biologist-edie-widder-chases-bioluminescence-in-new-life-illuminated-film/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-315615</doi>				</item>
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					<title>‘Right moon for fishing’: Study finds gravitational impacts on plants, animals</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/right-moon-for-fishing-study-finds-gravitational-impacts-on-plants-animals/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/right-moon-for-fishing-study-finds-gravitational-impacts-on-plants-animals/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>22 Mar 2022 10:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sibélia Zanon]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Bioluminescence, Botany, Coastal Ecosystems, Conservation, Coral Reefs, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Marine, Oceans, Plants, Research, and Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[Electrical engineer Cristiano de Mello Gallep was working in a biophotonics laboratory in the city of Limeira, in Brazil’s São Paulo state, trying to measure self-luminescence in organisms — the ability of plants to glow in the dark, essentially. The experiments with seed germination took days, and Gallep, a researcher at the University of Campinas [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Electrical engineer Cristiano de Mello Gallep was working in a biophotonics laboratory in the city of Limeira, in Brazil’s São Paulo state, trying to measure self-luminescence in organisms — the ability of plants to glow in the dark, essentially. The experiments with seed germination took days, and Gallep, a researcher at the University of Campinas (Unicamp), noted that variations in the growth curve of plants made it impossible to compare the tests when conducted on different days or even at different times. “So we went after the literature,” he says. “It seems pretty obvious after we find out, but what varies day to day, month to month and also throughout the year is the gravity that causes the tides, the most visible effect that everyone knows of.” So Gallep expanded the scope of his tests to other types of seeds, and combined them with the results obtained from partner laboratories, publishing his findings in 2014. Reviewing that information and taking into account two other studies on the subject, Gallep and biologist Daniel Robert from the University of Bristol in the U.K. have now come out with an extensive meta-analysis to show evidence that the rhythmic activity of organisms is closely associated with the effects of the sun and moon&#8217;s gravitational forces on the Earth. One of the earlier studies in the meta-analysis, published in 1965, demonstrated that, in a laboratory with controlled water conditions and without the influence of ocean tides, crustaceans maintained a pattern of behavior and swimming consistent&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/03/right-moon-for-fishing-study-finds-gravitational-impacts-on-plants-animals/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-254001</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Scientists discover three glow-in-the-dark sharks</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/scientists-discover-three-glow-in-the-dark-sharks/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Mar 2021 16:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[New Zealand and Pacific Ocean]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Bioluminescence, Deep Sea, Ecosystems, Elasmobranchs, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Marine, Marine Animals, Marine Conservation, New Discovery, Oceans, Research, Science, Sharks, Species, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The kitefin shark is a guitar-sized creature with brownish-black skin and large, gaping eyes. But there is more to this shark than initially meets the eye: in the dark, it will emit a blue glow. On a 2020 voyage near Chatham Rise off the eastern coast of New Zealand, a team of international scientists discovered that [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The kitefin shark is a guitar-sized creature with brownish-black skin and large, gaping eyes. But there is more to this shark than initially meets the eye: in the dark, it will emit a blue glow. On a 2020 voyage near Chatham Rise off the eastern coast of New Zealand, a team of international scientists discovered that the kitefin shark (Dalatias licha) and two other deep-sea shark species, the blackbelly lanternshark (Etmopterus lucifer) and the southern lanternshark (Etmopterus granulosus), all have bioluminescent properties. “We have something like 540 shark species in the ocean [and] there are 57 of them able to produce light — so more than 10% of the sharks,” Jérôme Mallefet, a marine biologist at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium and lead author of a new study on the discovery, told Mongabay in an interview. “But do people know they are able to produce light? No, not much.” Luminescent patterns of Dalatias licha. Photo by Jérôme Mallefet / UC Louvain. There are countless other species that are bioluminescent — from jellyfish to squid to algae — but the kitefin shark is the largest known vertebrate to produce bioluminescence, according to the study. The three shark species inhabit the mesopelagic zone of the ocean, also known as the twilight zone, which ranges from 200 to 1000 meters (660 to 3,300 feet) in depth. Only the tiniest amount of sunlight can reach this region, creating a dim, blue glow. Most marine organisms that produce bioluminescence contain special chemicals, including a&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/scientists-discover-three-glow-in-the-dark-sharks/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-240217</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Shell of bioluminescent shrimp not only glows but detects light</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/shell-of-bioluminescent-shrimp-not-only-glows-but-detects-light/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/shell-of-bioluminescent-shrimp-not-only-glows-but-detects-light/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>23 Mar 2020 14:19:48 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Edward Carver]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Bioluminescence, Environment, Evolution, Marine, Marine Animals, Oceans, Research, Science, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Surrounded by darkness, many deep-sea creatures emit light to help find prey or avoid predators. Scientists have long known that small organs called photophores are responsible for this bioluminescence. Now they’ve learned that photophores can also detect light, acting like rudimentary eyes all over the body. A team of marine biologists made the discovery by [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Surrounded by darkness, many deep-sea creatures emit light to help find prey or avoid predators. Scientists have long known that small organs called photophores are responsible for this bioluminescence. Now they’ve learned that photophores can also detect light, acting like rudimentary eyes all over the body. A team of marine biologists made the discovery by studying deep-sea shrimp in the Florida Straits. They published their findings in the journal Scientific Reports earlier this month. Their work adds to a growing body of research documenting photosensitive organs outside the eyes in a variety of animals, and is the first demonstration in deep-sea creatures. “When we think about sensing light we think of the eyes,” Heather Bracken-Grissom, a marine biologist at Florida International University who led the study, told Mongabay. “These shrimp have the ability to see beyond their eyes, in a sense.” All-seeing shrimp Janicella spinicauda shrimp take part in one of the planet’s largest daily migrations — one that is not so much geographical as vertical. Every night, they rise from depths as great as 1,500 meters (almost 5,000 feet) to shallow waters to feed and mate. On the move, they camouflage themselves by glowing so that predators below can’t see their silhouettes against light from above. But it’s been unclear how they and other deep-sea animals that perform this trick can adjust the intensity of their glow to match that of the light emanating from above. Bracken-Grissom’s discovery provides a clue: they have more than their eyes to “see”&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2020/03/shell-of-bioluminescent-shrimp-not-only-glows-but-detects-light/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-228172</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Journalists win environmental news reporting prizes</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/journalists-win-environmental-news-reporting-prizes/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/journalists-win-environmental-news-reporting-prizes/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>10 Dec 2013 17:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.org]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Tiffany Roufs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Panama and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Bears, Bioluminescence, Butterflies, Captive Breeding, Environment, Fungi, Gold Mining, Green, Mercury, Mongabay.org, and Sloths]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay announces its first annual top contributor prizes for 2013. Mongabay&#8217;s internship program has benefited from the hard work and great environmental reporting of more than 30 writing interns since the program&#8217;s inception in July 2012. This year, Mongabay asked this pool of contributing authors to submit their most compelling piece out of over 150 [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay announces its first annual top contributor prizes for 2013. Mongabay&#8217;s internship program has benefited from the hard work and great environmental reporting of more than 30 writing interns since the program&#8217;s inception in July 2012. This year, Mongabay asked this pool of contributing authors to submit their most compelling piece out of over 150 articles. The submissions were then reviewed by a panel. The winning article is an investigative piece by Tanya Dimitrova, on the removal of eight nearly-extinct pygmy sloths from a Panamanian island earlier this year. The incident and piece weren&#8217;t without controversy, but Dimitrova&#8217;s excellent article highlighted the complicated and nuanced world of removing animals from their natural habitat for captive breeding. Dimitrova&#8217;s award was accompanied by a $500 prize. Second place, along with a prize of $300, goes to Mrinalini Erkenswick Watsa for her piece on mercury pollution from gold-mining in the Amazon. The article was meticulously researched by Erkenswick Watsa and included photographs taken by the author during her time in Peru. Erkenswick Watsa has a PhD in biological anthropology and is a founder of the long-term research group PrimatesPeru. Illegal gold mine established in 2009 in the department of Madre de Dios. This mine encroaches on Tambopata Reserve. Photo by Rhett A. Butler. There was a tie for third place, which comes with a prize of $200. The first is a moving piece by Shreya Dasgupta and Abhishek Madan about the rehabilitation of India&#8217;s dancing sloth bears. Compellingly written and accompanied with beautiful&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/12/journalists-win-environmental-news-reporting-prizes/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-25957</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Why bioluminescent fungi glow in the dark</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/why-bioluminescent-fungi-glow-in-the-dark/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Jun 2013 17:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Dr Liz Kimbrough]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Bioluminescence, Environment, Evolution, Fungi, Green, Photos, Science, and Strange]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aristotle (384–322 BC) reported a mysterious light, distinct from fire, emanating from decaying wood. Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) mentioned feasting on a glowing, sweet fungus found on trees in France and, in the late fifteenth century, a Dutch consul gave accounts of Indonesian peoples using fungal fruits to illuminate forest pathways. Bioluminescent fungi have [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aristotle (384–322 BC) reported a mysterious light, distinct from fire, emanating from decaying wood. Pliny the Elder (23–79 AD) mentioned feasting on a glowing, sweet fungus found on trees in France and, in the late fifteenth century, a Dutch consul gave accounts of Indonesian peoples using fungal fruits to illuminate forest pathways. Bioluminescent fungi have intrigued generations of observers, and a handful of scientists still carry that torch of curiosity, answering questions about how and why these mushrooms glow. Bioluminescence, light emitted by living organisms, has been verified in only 71 of the roughly 100,000 described species in the Kingdom Fungi. These 71 species belong to four distantly related lineages occurring throughout the world, with greatest abundance in the tropics. Conspicuous temperate species include: the Jack-o-Lantern mushrooms of Europe and the North America (Omphalotus illudens, O. olearius), the ghost fungus of Australia and Asia (O. nidiformis), the moon night mushroom of Japan (O. japonicus), and various species of honey mushrooms whose mycelium causes &#8220;foxfire&#8221;&#8212;the phenomenon of glowing wood noticed by Aristotle. Bioluminescence results when energy from a chemical reaction is released as light. Specifically this occurs when an enzyme, known as luciferase, catalyzes the oxidation of an organic molecule, known as luciferin. In a recent study, published in Photochemical &#038; Photobiological Sciences, 2012, researchers mixed luciferin and luciferase from various lineages of bioluminescent fungi. They found that all mixtures resulted in bioluminescence, which suggests &#8220;a single luminescent pathway&#8221; that arose early in these lineages. Top: Mycena luxaeterna glowing in the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2013/06/why-bioluminescent-fungi-glow-in-the-dark/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-28838</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New species of bioluminescent cockroach possibly already extinct by volcanic eruption</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/new-species-of-bioluminescent-cockroach-possibly-already-extinct-by-volcanic-eruption/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Nov 2012 21:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Michael Rudolph]]>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ecuador, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Animal Behavior, Animals, Bioluminescence, Ecology, Environment, Extinction, Green, Insects, Species Discovery, Strange, Volcanoes, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Various reconstructions of Lucihormetica luckae. Images courtesy of Vršanský et al. While new species are discovered every day, Peter Vršanský and company&#8217;s discovery of a light-producing cockroach, Lucihormetica luckae, in Ecuador is remarkable for many reasons, not the least that it may already be extinct. The new species represents the only known case of mimicry [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Various reconstructions of Lucihormetica luckae. Images courtesy of Vršanský et al. While new species are discovered every day, Peter Vršanský and company&#8217;s discovery of a light-producing cockroach, Lucihormetica luckae, in Ecuador is remarkable for many reasons, not the least that it may already be extinct. The new species represents the only known case of mimicry by bioluminescence in a land animal. Like a venomless king snake beating its tail to copy the unmistakable warning of a rattlesnake, Lucihormetica luckae&#8217;s bioluminescent patterns are nearly identical to the poisonous click beetle, with which it shares (or shared) its habitat. Most common in the deep sea where it first evolved, bioluminescence is the chemical reactions that give certain organisms the ability to produce light. Other luminescing species use light to communicate, attract mates or evade predators, as well as illuminate their environment. The possibly extinct Lucihormetica luckae, which oddly resembles a Jawa from Star Wars. Photo courtesy of Vršanský et al. According to the research published in the journal Naturwissenschaften, Lucihormetica luckae is the first known case of asymmetrical bioluminescence. It sports two eye-like spots on its upper back and a tiny third one on the right side only. These lanterns are covered over by a reflective surface similar to an automobile headlight, Vršanský told mongabay.com. This allows the insect to conceal itself behind its own brightness. Nearly as soon as this species became known to science, it may have been extinguished by the eruption of the Tungurahua Volcano, where it lived. Though&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2012/11/new-species-of-bioluminescent-cockroach-possibly-already-extinct-by-volcanic-eruption/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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