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Photos highlight evolving roles of AI, citizen science in species research

David Klinges 17 Dec 2018

Pod-cast: New app streams whale songs for web users in real time

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 Nov 2018

The Osa Camera Trap Network: Uniting people to monitor biodiversity

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 30 Oct 2018

The iNaturalist species data sharing platform reaches one million users

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 Oct 2018

Tiny tags and a broad research network help track small animal movements

Jason J. Gregg 27 Sep 2018

Satellites and citizen science pinpoint migratory bird refueling stops

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 17 Sep 2018

Cheap prices lead to more exotic pets in the wild, research finds

Mongabay.com 30 Aug 2018
Griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus). Photo courtesy Anton Khalilieh.

Bird watchers of the West Bank navigate a fraught political climate

Miriam Berger 29 Aug 2018

Online citizen science data platforms help scientists predict species ranges

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 22 Aug 2018

Tracking tools identify regional hubs of whale shark activity

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 16 Aug 2018

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

Birdwatching poised to take flight in Colombia, study reveals

John Cannon 10 Oct 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

Over the bridge: The battle for the future of the Kinabatangan

John Cannon 3 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 24 Apr 2017

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