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‘Grumpiest cat’ leaves its calling card on the world’s highest mountain

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Jan 2023

Highlining, an outdoor activity that helps with conservation efforts, in the Karst Citatah area, Padalarang, West Java. Image by Donny Iqbal/Mongabay.

Environment award stokes urge to save Indonesia’s karst landscape

Donny Iqbal, Warief Djajanto Basorie 16 May 2022

Monks and wildlife come under pressure from Malaysian cement company

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 30 Jun 2021

In the International Year of Caves and Karst, Brazilian caves are at high risk (Commentary)

Enrico Bernard | Rodrigo Lopes Ferreira | Francisco W. Cruz | Luís Piló | Allan Calux 31 May 2021

The riddle of Madagascar’s megafauna extinction just got trickier

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Nov 2020

Nail paint helps researchers estimate numbers of rare Cuban bat species

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Sep 2019

A butterfly in the forest outside Son Doong Cave. (Photo courtesy Professor Phuong Ta)

In Vietnam, cable car plans continue to threaten important cave system

Chris Humphrey 24 Jul 2018

Trekkers don headlamps and helmets at one of Hang En's entrances. Photo by Michael Tatarski for Mongabay.

Son Doong Cave: Tourism and conservation coexist in one of Vietnam’s largest national parks

Michael Tatarski 16 May 2017

New cave catfish threatened by deforestation, mining, pollution

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Mar 2017

Pollution from fossil fuels decreased rainfall in Central America

Jeremy Hance 10 Feb 2015

New species has its anus behind its head

Shreya Dasgupta 9 Jun 2014

Olinguito, tinkerbell, and a dragon: meet the top 10 new species of 2013

Jeremy Hance 22 May 2014

Rare animal species and Buddhist monks in danger of losing their home to cement quarry

Tanya Dimitrova 22 Jul 2013

Two new arachnids discovered in Brazilian caves (photos)

Jeremy Hance 29 May 2013

Rise in 1.5 degrees Celsius likely to spark massive greenhouse gas release from permafrost

Jeremy Hance 25 Feb 2013

Botanists discover cave-dwelling plant

Alex Hatheway 7 Jan 2013

Velociraptor spider discovered in Oregon cave (pictures)

Jeremy Hance 17 Aug 2012

‘The lion of the cave:’ new predatory, swimming cricket discovered in Venezuela

Jeremy Hance 6 Aug 2012

Scientists discover world’s deepest terrestrial animal

Jeremy Hance 22 Feb 2012

New species is eel-equivalent of the coelacanth

Jeremy Hance 18 Aug 2011

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