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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 Ayers 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 Ayers 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 Ayers 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

Nepal tests fencing approach to protect farms and elephants

Erik Meijaard 17 Apr 2017

Do the Locomotion: Bio-inspired technology creates amphibious robots that mimic salamander movement

Lalini Pedris 30 Mar 2017

Military base-building destroys coral reefs in the South China Sea

Greg Asner 26 Mar 2017
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Greenpeace to take Indonesian forestry ministry to Supreme Court over environmental data

Mongabay.com 9 Mar 2017

LemurFaceID: The facial recognition tech helping researchers track lemurs in the wild

Mike Gaworecki 1 Mar 2017

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