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Marcel König and Natascha Oppelt (both from the University of Kiel, Germany) measuring melt pond optical properties during RV Polarstern campaign PASCAL, north of Svalbard in June 2017.

Arctic melt ponds influence sea ice extent each summer — but how much?

Michael C. Bradbury 20 Aug 2024

Indonesia, EU reconcile forest data ahead of new rules on deforestation-free trade

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Aug 2024

New datasets identify which crops deforest the Amazon, and where

Maxwell Radwin 2 Aug 2024
Common zebra (Equus quagga) in Kriger National Park, South Africa.

The Inventory, a Wiki for wild tech: Interview with Jake Burton & Alex Rood

Abhishyant Kidangoor 30 Jul 2024

In Brazil’s Cerrado, aquifers are losing more water than they can replace

Kevin Damasio 24 May 2024
A school of snappers under a pier

AI and satellite data map true scale of untracked fishing and ocean industry

Elizabeth Fitt 10 Jan 2024
Two koala bears.

Conservation X Labs announces merger with AI nonprofit Wild Me

Abhishyant Kidangoor 10 Jan 2024

New platform offers toolkit for companies to prove their eco claims

Claudia Geib 16 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

New study reveals fine detail on location and scale of mining sites worldwide

Ashoka Mukpo 8 May 2023
Deploying a weather balloon

Agulhas Current enigma: An oceanic gap in our climate understanding

Petro Kotzé 21 Sep 2022
A healthy coral reef in Tahiti.

Scientists develop AI that can listen to the pulse of a reef being restored

Cassie Freund 25 Aug 2022
Scientists and researchers from INPE gather outside the São José dos Campos office of INPE in protest

Brazil’s new deforestation data board sparks fear of censorship of forest loss, fires

Sarah Brown 22 Jul 2022

Scientists’ secret weapon to monitor the Southern Ocean? Elephant seals

Mongabay.com 11 Feb 2022

As its end looms, Cerrado tracker records 6-year deforestation high

Fernanda Wenzel 12 Jan 2022

Cattle boom in Brazil’s Acre spells doom for Amazon rainforest, activists warn

Sarah Brown 7 Jan 2022

From the ocean floor, a startup livestreams the rise of coral cities

Claire Turrell 10 Nov 2021

‘Kew Declaration’ unites experts on reforestation, aims at policymakers ahead of COP26

Liz Kimbrough 13 Oct 2021

Tracking white-bellied pangolins in Nigeria, the new global trafficking hub

Gianluca Cerullo 7 Oct 2021

Saving sea turtles in the ‘Anthropause’: Successes and challenges on the beach

Elizabeth Fitt 15 Sep 2021

New research hopes to shine a light on wedgefish, the ‘pangolin of the ocean’

Caroline Chebet 7 Sep 2021

Find my elephant: The conservation apps revolutionizing how rangers work

Aimee Gabay 30 Aug 2021

End of deforestation tracker for Brazil’s Cerrado an ‘incalculable loss’

Fernanda Wenzel 19 Aug 2021

Global restoration now has an online meeting point

Liz Kimbrough 23 Jul 2021

Climate change isn’t fueling algal blooms the way we think, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Jun 2021

Final court ruling orders Indonesian government to publish plantation data

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jun 2021

How to pick a tree-planting project? Mongabay launches transparency tool to help supporters decide

Liz Kimbrough 17 May 2021

Exposing organized crime in the Amazon: Q&A with Robert Muggah of the Igarapé Institute

Mongabay.com 2 Apr 2021

A hi-tech eye in the sky lays bare Hawaiʻi’s living coral reefs

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Jan 2021

New evidence suggests China’s ‘dark’ vessels poached in Galápagos waters

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Oct 2020

Ex-Wall Street ‘quant’ wields data to replant charred Madagascar rainforests

Erica Tennenhouse 31 Aug 2020

As Amazon tree loss worsens, political pressure grows, and Brazil hedges: Critics

Jenny Gonzales 10 Aug 2020

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