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Antarctic krill swim in swarms of billions. Credit: Aker BioMarine, Pew

Antarctic krill store massive amounts of carbon in the deep ocean, researchers find

Farah Aziz Annesha 29 Nov 2024
Close up of the shiny, bulbous brown compound eyes and dark brown and blue thorax of a Gambles's flatwing's (Neurolestes nigeriensis). Image © Jan van Leeuwen.

Search for rare Nigerian damselflies finds forest habitats under threat

Ryan Truscott 22 Aug 2024
A mariscadora uses a clam rake to dredge for shellfish off Cambados in Galicia. Image by Naomi Mihara for Mongabay

In northern Spain, climate change is killing shellfish — and women’s livelihoods

Naomi Mihara, Natalie Donback 29 Jun 2024
Beekeeping in Thailand

Beekeeping helps villagers tend coastal forests in Thai mangrove hotspot

Carolyn Cowan 18 Jun 2024
Researcher Alain Senghor K. Ngute looking at a photo of a millipede on a laptop, and making notes on a clipboard on the desk in front of him. Image by Haimdu Mnendendo.

Tanzania’s ‘mountain of millipedes’ yields six new species

Ryan Truscott 26 Mar 2024

In PNG, researchers record 9 new species of predatory hermaphroditic land snails

Spoorthy Raman 24 Jan 2024

Kenyan villagers show how to harvest more octopus by fishing less

Diana Wanyonyi 24 Jan 2024
Fishermen catch octopus on Beriulou Island.

Indonesian village forms coast guard to protect octopus in Mentawai Islands

Jaka Hendra Baittri 3 Oct 2023
Setting a prescribed fire around vernal pools at Agate Desert Preserve. Image courtesy of Evan Barrientos/TNC.

Counterintuitive conservation: Fire boosts aquatic crustaceans in U.S. savannas

Ashli Blow 21 Apr 2023
A Socorro isopod. Image by Bronwyn H. Bleakley via Creative Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Socorro isopod: Endangered but important (commentary)

Nick D’Onofrio 19 Aug 2022
Spiky yellow woodlouse. Image courtesy of www.sainthelenaisland.info

Can we save the spiky yellow woodlouse, one of the most endangered isopods? (commentary)

Nick D’Onofrio 27 May 2022
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Winds of change: Detecting species from airborne DNA just got real

Carolyn Cowan 11 Feb 2022

New assessment finds dragonflies and damselflies in trouble worldwide

Spoorthy Raman 9 Feb 2022
The spectral tarsier is a close relative of the western tarsier. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Extinction not only threatens primates—their parasites are in danger, too

McKenzie Prillaman 1 Dec 2021
Researchers found hermit crabs scuttling across some of the study’s 240 plots. Photo credit: Sebastian Steibl

Insects and other invertebrates on tropical islands face challenges as development and tourism expand

Brittney J. Miller 29 Nov 2021

Absorbent and yellow and … mobile? Sea sponges on the move in Arctic Ocean

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 May 2021

Here goes nothing: Male spiders found giving females silk-wrapped zilch

Anna Nordseth 22 Feb 2021

Invasion of the crayfish clones: Q&A with Ranja Andriantsoa

Rowan Moore Gerety 27 Jan 2021

New land snail species discovered in Hawaii offers ‘gem of hope’

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Aug 2020

Risking death and arrest, Madagascar fishers chase dwindling sea cucumbers

Chris Scarffe 15 Jul 2020

The sponge with the secret recipe: A cancer-fighting chemical

Julia John 8 Jul 2020

An intrusive killer scorpion points the way to six new species in Sri Lanka

Malaka Rodrigo 30 Jun 2020

Predators disproportionately impacted by human land use changes, study finds

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2020

Plastic trash kills half a million hermit crabs on remote islands each year

Grace Dungey 28 Feb 2020

Western monarch butterfly numbers critically low for second straight year

Liz Kimbrough 26 Feb 2020

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

Agustín del Castillo 17 Feb 2020

Feral horses gallop to the rescue of butterflies in distress

Nanticha Ocharoenchai 18 Nov 2019

Biodiversity boosts crop pollinators and pest controllers, study finds

Mongabay.com 16 Oct 2019

Wilderness cuts the risk of extinction for species in half

John Cannon 26 Sep 2019

New eDNA sampling system aims for cleaner, more efficient field research

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 Jul 2019

Thousands of endangered snails raised in captivity returned to natural habitat in Bermuda

Mongabay.com 26 Jun 2019

Primates lose ground to surging commodity production in their habitats

Mongabay.com 17 Jun 2019

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