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The Arctic’s oldest, thickest ice is breaking up

Gloria Dickie 22 Aug 2018

Online citizen science data platforms help scientists predict species ranges

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 22 Aug 2018

Saving rare orchids that are ‘confusingly difficult’ to grow in labs: Q&A with orchid expert Marc Freestone

Shreya Dasgupta 22 Aug 2018
Rainforest in Indonesia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Environmental issues to be a focus of Indonesian presidential debates: official

Basten Gokkon, Indra Nugraha 21 Aug 2018
Photo courtesy Guilherme Rodrigues

In Brazil, a forest community helps seed new trees far and wide

Ignacio Amigo 21 Aug 2018

The superb mimicry skills of an Australian songbird

Mike Gaworecki 21 Aug 2018

Poachers caught on video killing mother bear and cubs at den in Alaska

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2018

Fight to protect the world’s most threatened great ape goes to court

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 Aug 2018

Scientists call on California governor to OK carbon credits from forest conservation

Mongabay.com 21 Aug 2018

Komodo protesters say no to development in the dragons’ den

Basten Gokkon 21 Aug 2018

Wild-caught timber elephants in Myanmar die earlier than captive-born ones

Mongabay.com 20 Aug 2018

Fake logging permits undermine Amazonian conservation, say experts

Genevieve Belmaker 17 Aug 2018

Latam Eco Review: Hunger for wildlife, mercury rising, and a black jaguar sighting

Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2018

Researchers weed out a way to identify plants using environmental DNA

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 17 Aug 2018

In other news: Environmental stories from around the web, August 17, 2018

Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2018

The Japan pig is a tiny colorful pygmy seahorse smaller than a fingernail

Mongabay.com 17 Aug 2018

Protected landscape across India-Bhutan border a refuge for wildlife during armed conflict

Sahana Ghosh 17 Aug 2018
Coral reef off New Caledonia. Courtesy of Google Earth.

New Caledonia votes to protect coral reefs

Mongabay.com 16 Aug 2018

Colombia: Govt rushes to save national park from rampant deforestation

Maria Fernanda Lizcano 16 Aug 2018

Tracking tools identify regional hubs of whale shark activity

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 16 Aug 2018

Scientists say endangered whale sharks can live up to 130 years

Mongabay.com 15 Aug 2018

‘Biological passports’ show whale sharks travel less than we thought

Mongabay.com 15 Aug 2018

Recovering conservationist: Q&A with orangutan ecologist June Mary Rubis

Basten Gokkon 15 Aug 2018

When it comes to carbon storage, not all mangroves are equal

Shreya Dasgupta 14 Aug 2018

The tropics are in trouble, warn scientists

Rhett Ayers Butler 14 Aug 2018

Brazil austerity policies devastating to rural communities: analysis

Anna Sophie Gross 14 Aug 2018

Ruralists in Brazilian congress put nation’s protected areas at risk

Liz Kimbrough 14 Aug 2018

Predatory coral bring down jellyfish by working together

Mongabay.com 14 Aug 2018

In protecting songbirds, Indonesia ruffles owners & breeders’ feathers

Basten Gokkon 13 Aug 2018

Ecology monks in Thailand seek to end environmental suffering

Kiley Price 13 Aug 2018

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

Claire Asher 13 Aug 2018

Millipedes might soothe itchy lemurs, research finds

Mongabay.com 13 Aug 2018

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