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Top 10 happy environmental stories of 2018

Basten Gokkon 31 Dec 2018

Bits of DNA in ocean water can reveal white sharks swimming nearby

Sofie Bates 4 Dec 2018
Extract of an aerial 360° of an informal gold mine in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Click the image to see the full panorama.

Information-based solutions for forest conservation projects

Mongabay.com 29 Nov 2018
Newmont Mining Corporation's open pit copper-gold mine in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Indonesian mine watchdog sues government for concession maps

Indra Nugraha 13 Sep 2018

Drone used to confirm existence of uncontacted Amazon tribe (video)

Mongabay.com 24 Aug 2018
A bucket of fish at a market in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

Technological breakthroughs are changing how researchers observe the world’s fishing fleet

Nadine Freischlad 14 Aug 2018

Trase.earth tracks commodities, links supply chains to deforestation risk

Claire Asher 13 Aug 2018

New tagging tech for great white shark tracking in New York waters

Mongabay.com 25 Jul 2018
Germinating seeds in the seed bank. Photo by Ignacio Amigo/Mongabay

Brazil’s plant biodiversity still not fully present in its seed banks

Ignacio Amigo 25 Jul 2018

Mongabay discusses technology’s role in conservation at Seattle event [VIDEO]

Erik Hoffner 13 Jun 2018

Innovative ideas sought for new conservation tech prize

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 8 Jun 2018
Planet satellite image of coral off Belize's Lighthouse Reef. Taken March 28, 2018.

A global coral reef monitoring system is coming soon

Rhett A. Butler 4 Jun 2018

Can cryptocurrencies save Indonesia’s carbon forests? (commentary)

Peter Howson 4 Jun 2018

Scientists tackling conservation problems turn to artificial intelligence

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 May 2018

New remote-sensing technique used to determine carbon losses in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mike Gaworecki 10 Apr 2018
Earlier reports based on satellite data suggested that the Danger Islands could be home to several penguin "supercolonies." However, heavy pack ice is common around the Danger Islands, even in austral summer, making difficult to access this area to conduct a comprehensive survey. Credit: Rachael Herman, Louisiana State University, © Stony Brook University

Penguin mega-colony discovered using satellites and drones, raising scientists’ hopes

Mongabay.com 3 Mar 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

Rainforests: the year in review 2017

Rhett A. Butler 4 Jan 2018

Top 10 HAPPY environmental stories of 2017

Shreya Dasgupta 28 Dec 2017

Harnessing the power of camera trap bycatch data to monitor threatened species (commentary)

Lorraine Scotson 1 Dec 2017

Long-term droughts are throttling growth in Hawaiian forests, finds airborne laser-based study

Alex Fox 27 Nov 2017

Can agroforestry propel climate commitments? Interview with Peter Minang

Giovanni Ortolani 16 Nov 2017

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

Mike Gaworecki 10 Nov 2017

Mapping how to feed 9 billion humans, while avoiding environmental calamity

Rhett A. Butler 8 Nov 2017

Black rhinos in Tanzania now monitored via sensors implanted directly in their horns

Mike Gaworecki 24 Oct 2017

When a rhino calls in the forest, this guy hears it: Q&A with a Javan rhino researcher

Mongabay.com 16 Oct 2017

HydroCalculator: new, free, online tool helps citizens assess dams

Claire Salisbury 7 Aug 2017

Visualizing the impacts of human disturbance on tropical forest biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jul 2017

Underwater cameras let scientists dive beneath the surface with dolphins

Mike Gaworecki 5 Jun 2017

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

Mike Gaworecki 27 Apr 2017
Grevy's zebras in Samburu Reserve, Kenya

Wildbook: a social network for wildlife

Colleen O'Brien 18 Apr 2017

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