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The scale-crested pygmy tyrant lives in Central America and northern South America. This individual was capturing during a bird survey, banded, and released. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Author Steven Kotler on tackling the biodiversity crisis with technology

Mongabay 25 Oct 2017

One man’s quest to save the world’s wildest places: Hansjörg Wyss

Rhett Ayers Butler 18 Oct 2017

Whale entanglements skyrocket off the U.S. West Coast

Lillie Howell 19 Jun 2017

Warming climate coaxes carbon from down deep in temperate soils

John Cannon 14 Mar 2017

How acoustic monitoring gave us a last chance to save the vaquita

Rachel Fritts 22 Feb 2017

Swallowing swimming pools: New sensory tags capture kinetics of lunge-feeding whales

Julia John 2 Dec 2016

California court upholds ban on ivory and rhino horn

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Dec 2016

Yosemite’s yellow-legged frogs bounce back from near extinction

Ula Chrobak 21 Nov 2016

Beyond data collection — the social and political effects of environmental sensor proliferation

Jenny Isaacs 5 Nov 2016

New millipede discovered in California has 414 legs, 4 penises

Shreya Dasgupta 2 Nov 2016

Chew on this new way to detect disease in primates

Julia John 28 Jul 2016

For Earth Day: climbing a redwood tree

Tina Butler 21 Apr 2016

Four dams to be removed from Klamath River in Oregon and California

Mike Gaworecki 15 Apr 2016
Leonardo DiCaprio accepts the Oscar for Best Actor at the 88th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre on February 28, 2016 in Hollywood, California. Courtesy of the Academy Awards.

DiCaprio calls for climate action in Oscar speech

Mongabay.com 29 Feb 2016

Meet the new spider named after Johnny Cash

Mike Gaworecki 9 Feb 2016

California declares state of emergency after methane gas leak forces thousands from their homes

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jan 2016

Could synthetic rhino horns help save the rhino?

Hina Alam 5 Jan 2016

Crab fishermen train as first responders for entangled whales

Kim Smuga-Otto 24 Nov 2015

Nola, one of the last four northern white rhinos in the world, dies at San Diego Zoo

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Nov 2015

Water supply for 2 billion people at risk as snowpack declines across northern hemisphere

Mike Gaworecki 18 Nov 2015

Video: The Terminator blows up ivory tusk, joins anti-poaching campaign

Shreya Dasgupta 13 Nov 2015
Boat loaded with wood on the Tambopata River, Peru

Perimeter Defense: Four Technologies for Detecting and Preventing Illegal Logging

Arpitha Kodiveri, Jonathan Mason and Meaghan Parker, Loretta Cheung 5 Nov 2015
Mark Hebblewhite and Kelly Proffitt use an ultrasound to measure an adult female elk's body condition in Montana's Bitterroot Valley. The elk was captured via a helicopter net gun and sports a GPS collar around her neck. Photo courtesy of Mark Hebblewhite.

Wildlife biology in the 21st century

Caleb O'Brien 20 Oct 2015

Solar energy boom has put natural areas at risk

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Oct 2015

California bans ivory

Mongabay.com 5 Oct 2015

Snowpack in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains at a 500-year low

Mike Gaworecki 2 Oct 2015
Quadcopter drone. Photo courtesy of ConservationDrones.org

Conservation Drones Summit streaming live

17 Sep 2015

Studying the unloved through the wisdom of crowds

Roz Evans 11 Sep 2015

California takes step toward banning elephant ivory, rhino horn trades

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Sep 2015

Advanced Animal Tracker Helps To Explain Big Cat’s Hunting Strategy

Nathan Hahn 3 Aug 2015
Rainforest in Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Welcome to the new Mongabay

Rhett Ayers Butler 20 Jul 2015

Photos from the front: the California oil spill in pictures

Rebecca Kessler 21 May 2015

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