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Where do illegal lion parts come from? A new tool offers answers

Malavika Vyawahare 13 Dec 2023
A toucan in a tropical rainforest.

Tropical deforestation increases even as a few hotspots see respite, new data shows

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Dec 2023

No animals harmed as wildlife specimen collection goes digital in 3D

Abhishyant Kidangoor 30 Nov 2023

New algorithm looks at how Amazon vegetation will behave after climate change

Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 29 Nov 2023
Rubber latex collecting into a container in a rubber plantation in Thailand. Image by Eleanor W-T via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Growing rubber drives more deforestation than previously thought, study finds

Abhishyant Kidangoor 22 Nov 2023

New platform offers toolkit for companies to prove their eco claims

Claudia Geib 16 Nov 2023
Prescribed burns conducted by government organizations don’t face the same high cost of fire insurance as private organizations do. Image courtesy of the Virginia Department of Forestry.

As U.S. insurers stop covering prescribed burns, states and communities step up

Ashli Blow 15 Nov 2023
A male Allen's hummingbird (Selasphorus sasin).

New AI model gives bird’s-eye view of avian distribution at vast scale

Abhishyant Kidangoor 8 Nov 2023
Monarch butterflies

Betting on biodiversity: Q&A with Superorganism’s Kevin Webb & Tom Quigley

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Nov 2023
A biodiversity index created by Bioverse using machine learning to detect species and then spatially categorize them. Image courtesy of Bioverse.

Can digital twins help save the Amazon? (commentary)

Carlo Ratti, Robert Muggah 2 Nov 2023
Sun bear

Conservationists look to defy gloomy outlook for Borneo’s sun bears

Carolyn Cowan 31 Oct 2023
Fishermen on a fishing boat in the Mediterranean Sea.

Can aquaculture solve the Mediterranean’s overfishing problem?

Francesco De Augustinis 26 Oct 2023
The Iriomote cat (Prionailurus bengalensis iriomotensi).

Meet Japan’s Iriomote and Tsushima cats: Ambassadors for island conservation

Annelise Giseburt 24 Oct 2023
Andean cock of the rock bird in Manu. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Sound recordings and AI tell us if forests are recovering, new study from Ecuador shows

Liz Kimbrough 23 Oct 2023
Chittal, as spotted deer are known in Nepali

Nepal’s tiger conservation gets tech boost with AI-powered deer tracking

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 Oct 2023
The platforms can carry environmental sensors and could be useful tools to disperse sensors in far-flung areas.

Origami-inspired sensor platforms tumble like leaves to study forests

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Oct 2023
A leopard in Primorsky Krai region in the Russian Far East caught on camera.

Taking the global pulse of biodiversity monitoring: Q&A with Andrew Gonzalez

Abhishyant Kidangoor 11 Oct 2023
Satellite image of Argentina's Patagonia region.

Applications open for Airbus’s ‘Satellites for Biodiversity Award’

Abhishyant Kidangoor 6 Oct 2023
Jan Gogarten and Christina Lynggaard

Swab a leaf and find a species. Or 50, thanks to eDNA

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Oct 2023
An uncontacted Indigenous community in Acre, Brazil.

New online map tracks threats to uncontacted Indigenous peoples in Brazil’s Amazon

Sarah Brown 27 Sep 2023
A Mojave Desert tortoise with an iButton attached to it.

How hot are the desert tortoises getting? iButtons help find the answer

Abhishyant Kidangoor 20 Sep 2023
Asian elephant

Protected areas a boon for vertebrate diversity in wider landscape, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 15 Sep 2023

Taking up the cause of red pandas: Q&A with actor and activist Dayahang Rai

Abhaya Raj Joshi 15 Sep 2023
Young beaver grooming itself. Image courtesy of Cheryl Reynolds via Wikimedia Commons.

NASA satellites reveal restoration power of beavers

Jeremy Hance 11 Sep 2023
Eastern bluebirds

With fewer birds seen on farms, scientists try listening for them

Abhishyant Kidangoor 8 Sep 2023
A red fox.

In the chain of species extinctions, AI can predict the next link to break

Abhishyant Kidangoor 22 Aug 2023
The team at the Giraffe Conservation Foundation attempts to put a tag on a reticulated giraffe in Namibia.

Where are the giraffes hiding? Predictive tracking tech points the way

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Aug 2023
Global map of the oceans including elevation. Image courtesy of Esri.

To protect the oceans, we must map them (commentary)

Dawn Wright 10 Aug 2023
EarthRanger Director Jes Lefcourt testing EarthRanger Mobile in northern Kenya.

Wildlife management platform EarthRanger goes mobile with new app

Abhishyant Kidangoor 10 Aug 2023

Oil palms may be magnet for macaques, boars, at expense of other biodiversity

Carolyn Cowan 7 Aug 2023
Greville's bolete, which has a mycorrhizal relationship with larch trees.

Machine learning helps researchers identify underground fungal networks

Abhishyant Kidangoor 4 Aug 2023
Tridi Oasis recycles PET bottles to produce rPET flakes which could be used to make packing materials and textiles.

Funding circularity: Investing in Asia’s circular economy business models

Abhishyant Kidangoor 1 Aug 2023

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