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A mother humpback and calf off the coast of Maui in the Hawaiian Islands. Photo courtesy of NOAA

Whalesong, interrupted

Melati Kaye 23 Sep 2016

Amazonian bat identification takes flight with new interactive guide

Claire Salisbury 22 Sep 2016

Field Notes: Wooing wolverines with high-tech lures

Elizabeth Devitt 21 Sep 2016

Philippine Bleeding-heart doves flutter at the brink, but NGOs respond

Claire Salisbury 20 Sep 2016
Young boys labor outside a saw mill in the town of Njoro in Kenya’s Rift Valley. Photo by David Njagi

Youth, women, indigenous group pay the price of logging in Kenya

David Njagi 16 Sep 2016

Black, white and unique: the Malayan tapir struggles for recognition

Kate Mayberry 7 Sep 2016

Field Notes: Expedition to Cuba seeks out new and endemic species

Elizabeth Devitt 30 Aug 2016

Pet trade’s “cute” and “adorable” label endangers the slow loris

Linda Lombardi 25 Aug 2016

Nixed Bolivian highway offers environmental lessons to big Brazil bank

Ana Rosa de Lima, Alexandra Ellerbeck 24 Aug 2016

Human impact on environment may be slowing down: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Aug 2016

Pulling the stunningly unique painted terrapin back from the brink

Diane Toomey 17 Aug 2016

Climate change pledges not nearly enough to save tropical ecosystems

Jeremy Hance 16 Aug 2016

Field Notes: Saving America’s last wild meat-eating Venus flytraps

Elizabeth Devitt 15 Aug 2016

Out of sight, out of mind: Asia’s elusive Fishing Cat in trouble

Sean Mowbray 11 Aug 2016
An atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), at the Atlanterhavsparken aquarium in Ålesund, Norway. Photo by Hans-Petter Fjeld via Wikimedia Commons (CC-BY-SA).

Fish-farm escapees are weakening Norwegian wild salmon genetics

Melati Kaye 10 Aug 2016

Borneo conservationists and top oil palm firm work to help orangutans

Deirdre Leowinata 9 Aug 2016
Etnias, a 620-foot long mural in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, representing indigenous people from five continents by Brazilian artist Eduardo Kobra. The mural was commissioned for the Olympics. Photo by Agência Brasil Fotografias.

Olympics to begin amid rising violence against Brazil’s indigenous people

Sandra Cuffe 4 Aug 2016

Field Notes: Scientist seeks long-term stress trends in Africa’s hyenas

Elizabeth Devitt 3 Aug 2016

Malayan Sun bear: bile trade threatens the World’s smallest bear

Claire Asher 1 Aug 2016
Part of the Green Fuel ethanol plant in Chisumbanje, Zimbabwe. Photo by Kenneth Matimaire.

Amid epic drought, villagers bitter over Zimbabwean ethanol plant

Andrew Mambondiyani 28 Jul 2016
Levita holds a layer of dried crude oil from her farmland along the Marañon River. Photo by Brett Monroe Garner.

Health concerns, food insecurity linger months after Peruvian oil spills

Kevin Floerke, Rebecca Wolff 25 Jul 2016

Unknown, ignored and disappearing: Asia’s Almost Famous Animals

Laurel Neme 6 Jul 2016
Blue color form of Dendrobates auratus dart frog. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

10 conservation “fads”: how have they worked in Latin America?

Aldo Orellana López, Alan Forsberg 17 Jun 2016
La Danta pyramid in the Mayan city of Mirador, as seen from a distance. Photo by Ronyrocael/Wikimedia Commons.

Controversial park plans in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 17 Jun 2016
A still of juvenile blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) from the baited Go-Pro rig that researchers set in the waters of the Daram no-take zone in West Papua, Indonesia. Photo by Vanessa Jaiteh.

Protected areas grow populations of shark — and disenfranchised fishers

Melati Kaye 15 Jun 2016
Marta Álvarez inspects xate palm fronds harvested in the Uaxactún community forest concession. Photo by Sandra Cuffe.

Communities lead the way in rainforest conservation in Guatemala

Sandra Cuffe 9 Jun 2016

Orangutan reintroductions could risk population survival, study warns

Claire Salisbury 8 Jun 2016

Can conservationists overcome their differences to save life on Earth?

Mongabay 7 Jun 2016

Successes and many challenges in Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve

Sandra Cuffe 2 Jun 2016

Epilogue: Conservation still divided, looking for a way forward

Jeremy Hance 24 May 2016

Conservation’s people problem

Jeremy Hance 17 May 2016

Conservation today, the old-fashioned way

Jeremy Hance 10 May 2016

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