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Implicit gender, racial biases may hinder effectiveness of conservation science, experts warn

Basten Gokkon 4 Jul 2018

Citizen science makes easy work of penguin time-lapse image bounty

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 Jun 2018

Cities worldwide use photo app technology to compete in nature observation challenge

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Apr 2018

Powering cameras and empowering people

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 1 Feb 2018

New app hopes to reduce wildlife deaths on India’s roads, railway lines

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Jan 2018

10 top conservation tech innovations from 2017

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 Jan 2018
A herd of capybara, the world’s largest living rodents, go for a swim in Colombia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Mammal diversity may increase carbon storage in rainforests

Jennifer Leman 5 Dec 2017

Citizen scientists around the world are monitoring elephants in Gabon via camera traps — and you can too

Mike Gaworecki 10 Nov 2017
The Amazon rainforest along southeastern Peru's Tambopata River, seen from above.

Crowdsourcing the forest for the trees

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 7 Nov 2017

Citizen scientists use mobile apps to help “green” the ocean

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 20 Sep 2017

App combines computer vision and crowdsourcing to explore Earth’s biodiversity, one photo at a time

Colleen O'Brien 30 Aug 2017
A male indigo bunting pauses in Texas during

Scientists combine crowd-sourced field observations with land-use and climate models to identify steps for migratory bird protection

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 18 Aug 2017

Open-source species location data supports global biodiversity analyses

Colleen O'Brien 31 Jul 2017

Low-tech challenges to high-tech forest monitoring: lessons from Ugandan parks

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 24 Jul 2017

Story-telling app and website help communities improve their ‘backyards’

Danielle Bettermann 23 Jun 2017

Soil research aided by citizen scientists, boots and all

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 9 Jun 2017

An evolving IUCN Red List needs to be both innovative and rigorous (commentary)

Craig Hilton-Taylor 17 May 2017

Mexican ecologist José Sarukhán wins 2017 Tyler Prize

Erik Hoffner 3 May 2017

Overestimated range maps for endemic birds in India’s Western Ghats lead to underestimated threats, study finds

Mike Gaworecki 27 Apr 2017

The March for Science makes its stand: “There is no Planet B”

Sharon Guynup story and photos 24 Apr 2017
Grevy's zebras in Samburu Reserve, Kenya

Wildbook: a social network for wildlife

Colleen O'Brien 18 Apr 2017

How citizen science is transforming river management in Malaysian Borneo (commentary)

Ken Wilson 29 Nov 2016

KEDR: Watching over the cedar forests of the Russian Far East

Julia John 23 Nov 2016

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

Jenny Isaacs 5 Nov 2016

Citizen science leads to snail rediscovery in Vietnam

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jul 2016
Photo credit: David Olson.

A World of Tings

Taylor Robb-McCord 28 Jun 2016

Empowering smartphone users to bear witness to illegal wildlife trade

Julia John 26 May 2016

Want to identify that bug or beetle in your photo? Ask the crowd.

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 6 May 2016
Big-eared Townsend's bat

iBats: Emerging tools for acoustic surveys and species identification

Sammi Dowdell and Sue Palminteri 22 Jan 2016

Studying the unloved through the wisdom of crowds

Roz Evans 11 Sep 2015

Citizen scientists help demystify Serengeti’s wildlife with photos

Shreya Dasgupta 10 Mar 2015

Citizen scientist site hits one million observations of life on Earth

Jeremy Hance 10 Nov 2014

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