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A new mantis species rises from the ashes of Brazil’s National Museum

Suzana Camargo/Conexão Planeta 12 Mar 2020

Western monarch butterfly numbers critically low for second straight year

Liz Kimbrough 26 Feb 2020

New parasitoid wasp species discovered in Amazon manipulate host behavior in ‘complex way’

Mongabay.com 21 Feb 2020

Two deaths trigger alarm at Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve

Agustín del Castillo 17 Feb 2020
Foothills of the Atewa forest range. Image by Ahtziri Gonzalez/CIFOR via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Ghana’s government faces pushback in bid to mine biodiversity haven for bauxite

Awudu Salami Sulemana Yoda 5 Feb 2020

Habitat loss, climate change make for an uncertain cricket harvest in Uganda

Thomas Lewton 29 Jan 2020

From scorpion skewers to cricket flour, bug protein is becoming big business

Michael Tatarski 3 Jan 2020

Photos: Top 15 new species of 2019

Shreya Dasgupta 26 Dec 2019

Deforestation for potential rubber plantation raises concerns in Papua New Guinea

John Cannon 19 Dec 2019

As pesticide approvals soar, Brazil’s tapirs, bees, other wildlife suffer

Jenny Gonzales 18 Dec 2019

Meet the new parasitic wasp species named ‘Idris elba’

Mongabay.com 21 Nov 2019

Feral horses gallop to the rescue of butterflies in distress

Nanticha Ocharoenchai 18 Nov 2019
Tanzanian farmer Julia Yusufu with two of her agricultural tools, a radio and her cell phone. Image courtesy Farm Radio International

Fighting Africa’s fall armyworm invasion with radio shows and phone apps

Stephanie Parker 28 Oct 2019

New species of orange-red praying mantis mimics a wasp

Mongabay.com 25 Oct 2019
Field inspection for fall armyworm in Kakamega County, Kenya.

A scramble for solutions as fall armyworm infestation sweeps Africa

Gilbert Nakweya 24 Oct 2019

Malaria surges in deforested parts of the Amazon, study finds

John Cannon 23 Oct 2019

Biodiversity boosts crop pollinators and pest controllers, study finds

Mongabay.com 16 Oct 2019

Madagascar: What’s good for the forest is good for the native silk industry

Edward Carver 16 Aug 2019

Conservation tech prize with invasive species focus announces finalists

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 Jul 2019
Sakondry, ready to eat. Image by Brian Fisher.

Eat the insects, spare the lemurs

Emilie Filou 11 Jul 2019

Slight warming could be enough to heighten risk of malaria: Study

Mongabay.com 4 Jul 2019

New film details wrenching impact of illegal rhino horn trade on families

John Cannon 27 Jun 2019

Mongabay investigative series helps confirm global insect decline

Jeremy Hance 24 Jun 2019

Primates lose ground to surging commodity production in their habitats

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2019

The Great Insect Dying: How to save insects and ourselves

Jeremy Hance 13 Jun 2019

The Great Insect Dying: The tropics in trouble and some hope

Jeremy Hance 10 Jun 2019

The Great Insect Dying: Vanishing act in Europe and North America

Jeremy Hance 6 Jun 2019

The Great Insect Dying: A global look at a deepening crisis

Jeremy Hance 3 Jun 2019

The health of penguin chicks points scientists to changes in the ocean

Mongabay.com 22 May 2019

Interest in protecting environment up since Pope’s 2015 encyclical

John Cannon 21 May 2019

’Unprecedented’ loss of biodiversity threatens humanity, report finds

Mongabay.com 7 May 2019

All you need is human feces: The strange world of dung beetle sampling

Gianluca Cerullo 6 May 2019

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