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‘You have to be passionate’: Interview with Turtle Survival Alliance’s Hery Razafimamonjiraibe

Carolyn Cowan 10 Jan 2025
A mushroom on the forest floor.

One atlas to map all ecosystems on Earth: Interview with Yana Gevorgyan

Abhishyant Kidangoor 9 Jan 2025

Coral destruction for toilet construction: Interview with a Malagasy fisher

Valisoa Rasolofomboahangy 20 Dec 2024
As he stepped carefully along the seafloor in the warm shallows of French Polynesia, I could hardly tell where the boy ended and the sea began. The pink whiptail ray swooped playfully around him and for a moment I could see clearly the path to coexistence between humanity and all the denizens of the sea.

How conservation photographer Cristina Mittermeier uses visual storytelling to inspire action

Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Dec 2024
Mangroves in Raja Ampat.

How are mangrove restoration projects doing?: Interview with Tom Worthington

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Dec 2024

‘Trump is a disease’, says Yanomami shaman Davi Kopenawa

Daniel Camargos, from Repórter Brasil 2 Dec 2024
World Forest ID collects samples from around the world and uses chemical and genetic profiling techniques to create a database that classifies timber and other plants based on their location of origin.

Using science to fight deforestation: Interview with World Forest ID’s Jade Saunders & Andrew Lowe

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 Nov 2024
Cityscape of Seattle, U.S., with trees in the foreground.

Cities are climate solution leaders: Interview with Vancouver’s Gregor Robertson

Justin Catanoso 22 Nov 2024

Using regenerative agriculture to heal the land and help communities: Q&A with Kaleka founder Silvia Irawan

Louise Hunt 12 Nov 2024
A rhino.

Tracking footprints to monitor wildlife: Interview with WildTrack’s Zoe Jewell

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Nov 2024

Salmon is ‘everything’ for Lummi Nation highlighted in new PBS documentary

Liz Kimbrough 1 Nov 2024
Glaciers play an important role in the balance of water cycles and ecosystems. Although receding glaciers can degrade these systems, they also serve as an indicator of climate change. We can use Earth-observation satellite imagery to monitor and track glaciers from space. This Landsat 8 image shows glaciers surrounding Lake Sofron, Alaska. Blue areas indicate glacial extent; red areas indicate extensive moraine from glacier debris.

50 years of geographic insight: In interview with Jack Dangermond on Esri’s journey and the future of GIS

Rhett Ayers Butler 28 Oct 2024
Banner image of Joan Carling, courtesy of Right Livelihood.

‘Treat us as partners, central actors’: Interview with Indigenous activist Joan Carling

Kristine Sabillo 22 Oct 2024
Pine forest in California's Sierra Nevada. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Forests and the Fate of Civilizations: A Conversation with John Perlin

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 Oct 2024
Rinnie and Gary Shapiro in a peat swamp in Central Kalimantan. Photo credit: Rod Brindamour.

Orangutan conservation and communication: Gary Shapiro’s half-century journey from zoos to the wilds of Borneo

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Oct 2024
Nemonte Nenquimo in one of her family's forest gardens near the village of Nemonpare in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

‘Indigenous women in the Amazon must be empowered’: Interview with Nemonte Nenquimo

Astrid Arellano 7 Oct 2024
An inventory for acoustic monitoring: Interview with Kevin Darras

An inventory for acoustic monitoring: Interview with Kevin Darras

Abhishyant Kidangoor 5 Oct 2024
Green rice paddies in Udomxai province, Laos. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Alan Dangour on reframing climate change as a health crisis

Matthew Boyer, Rhett Ayers Butler 24 Sep 2024
CO2e emissions between 1850-2018 imposed over warming stripes graphic depicting annual mean global temperatures (1850-2018, from World Meteorological Organization data). Credit for general concept of warming stripes: climate scientist Ed Hawkins, University of Reading. Data values are visualized using color rather than locations of points on a graph. Horizontal scale is time, from 1850 (left) to 2018 (right). Data is global (not for a locality). This is an early, original chart from Dr. Hawkins, and should not be updated as the years pass. Update: newer versions of the warming stripes under more permissive CC‑BY‑4.0 licensing available here: showyourstripes.info Date 4 December 2018 Source Hawkins, Ed

Action at Scale: Elizabeth Yee on The Rockefeller Foundation’s Climate Strategy

Matthew Boyer, Rhett Ayers Butler 9 Sep 2024
Clown fish in anemone

The ocean ‘belongs to all of us’: Interview with Palau President Whipps

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Sep 2024

A Mexican marine park shelters giant manta rays: Interview with Madalena Pereira Cabral

Astrid Arellano 4 Sep 2024
A white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis) flying over a city.

Time to highlight South Asia’s less-studied vultures: Interview with Krishna Bhusal

Abhaya Raj Joshi 23 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
An elephant in Udawalawe, Sri Lanka.

Leading the charge in philanthropy across Asia: Interview with Lim Seok Hui

Matthew Boyer 24 Jul 2024
Two school boys planting a tree.

Protecting Nigeria one child & one tree at a time: Interview with Doyinsola Ogunye

Tarinipre Francis 24 Jul 2024
Goondoi rangers performing a traditional dance at Etty Bay Beach.

Shaping the next generation of Indigenous rangers: Interview with Manni Edwards

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 18 Jul 2024
Two common male rat snakes in Chitwan National Park, Nepal.

Nepal’s shifting biodiversity research landscape: Interview with Karan Bahadur Shah

Abhaya Raj Joshi 18 Jul 2024
An endangered Gee's golden langur (Trachypithecus geei).

‘A harmonious human-primate society’: Interview with Whitley winner Kuenzang Dorji

Choki Wangmo 17 Jul 2024

Global migratory freshwater fish populations plummet by 81%: Report

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jul 2024
Leticia Carvalho

‘Trust needs to be rebuilt’: Interview with candidate to head U.N. seabed-mining authority

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Jul 2024
Aba Gebreselassie stands near a big tree in the forest around Ura Kidane Mihret Monastery in the Zege peninsula, Ethiopia.

Guardians of the sacred: Ethiopian Orthodox monks on spiritual forest conservation

Solomon Yimer 27 Jun 2024
A dragonfly perched on a leaf in Thailand.

Reimagining insect research: Interview with Roel van Klink and Leandro Nascimento

Abhishyant Kidangoor 24 Jun 2024

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