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Jammin’ at wind farms may help save bats

Mary Bates 11 Feb 2019

How do you assess if a reintroduced species is thriving? Listen for it

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 8 Feb 2019

Urbanization in Asia provides a window of hope for tigers, study finds

Mongabay.com 6 Feb 2019

Tech prize encourages solutions to threats from invasive species

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 Feb 2019

Camera traps and customary wisdom help redefine bear conservation

Courtney Miceli 31 Jan 2019

Study finds bears react, then habituate, to drones

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 29 Jan 2019

For conservationists, crowdfunding sites raise both funds and awareness

Emily Clark 28 Jan 2019

As animal tagging goes cutting-edge, ethical questions abound

Jason J. Gregg 24 Jan 2019

A ‘FitBit for squid’ could help track the ocean’s squishier species

Marianne Messina 21 Jan 2019

New space lasers offer best 3D look at global forests yet

David Klinges 18 Jan 2019

Can satellite data help monitor sustainable rural development?

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 17 Jan 2019

‘Ecosystem guardians’ remain passionate despite dicey conditions

Nora Ward 15 Jan 2019

Drones with thermal cameras help detect camouflaged species

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 10 Jan 2019

Rhett Butler on how sound can save forests and top rainforest storylines to watch in 2019

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jan 2019

Flashing lights ward off livestock-hunting pumas in northern Chile

John Cannon 7 Jan 2019
Topher White of Rainforest Connection installing a bioacoustic device in the forest canopy. Image by Ben Von Wong.

Eavesdrop on forest sounds to effectively monitor biodiversity, researchers say

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jan 2019

Machine learning tool helps prioritize plants for conservation

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 3 Jan 2019
Fungi in Yunnan, China. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Rainforests: storylines to watch in 2019

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2019

Top camera trapping stories of 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 31 Dec 2018

Top 10 happy environmental stories of 2018

Basten Gokkon 31 Dec 2018
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

10 ways conservation tech shifted into auto in 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 Dec 2018

Drone 3D models help assess risk of turtle nesting beaches to sea level rise

David Klinges 27 Dec 2018
Wild orchids still attached to tree branches, for sale in a street market in China. Photo courtesy Amy Hinsley.

Social media, e-commerce sites facilitate illegal orchid trade

Stephanie Parker 21 Dec 2018

DNA test helps officials spot dodgy shark shipments

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 21 Dec 2018

Illegal mining in the Amazon ‘not comparable to any other period of its history’

Kimberley Brown 20 Dec 2018

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

David Klinges 17 Dec 2018

Hobby-grade drones can monitor marine animals beneath the surface

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 14 Dec 2018

Satellite trackers help fight vultures’ extinction in southern Africa

Munyaradzi Makoni 13 Dec 2018

A monitoring network in the Amazon captures a flood of data

Elizabeth Oliveira 11 Dec 2018

Peru’s Brazil nut harvesters learn to monitor forests with drones

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Dec 2018
Beijing smog as seen from the China World Hotel, March 2003, during the SARS outbreak. Photo by Kevin Dooley.

Mosses could help rapidly detect pollution

Bailey Bedford 5 Dec 2018

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