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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

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

Waters off Galápagos have way more alien species than previously known

Shreya Dasgupta 16 Apr 2019

Scientists urge overhaul of the world’s parks to protect biodiversity

John Cannon 11 Apr 2019

Hunting pumas to save deer could backfire, new research suggests

John Cannon 9 Apr 2019

Malaysian state chief: Highway construction must not destroy forest

Mongabay.com 26 Mar 2019

New maps show where humans are pushing species closer to extinction

John Cannon 15 Mar 2019
The spider Pamphobeteus sp. (Theraphosidae) and Chiasmocleis royi. Photo by Emanuele Biggi.

Video: scientists capture giant spider eating an opossum

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2019

World’s largest bee filmed alive for the first time in Indonesia

Mongabay.com 25 Feb 2019
A common octopus (Octopus vulgaris). Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

Octopus farming unsustainable, unethical, and unnecessary, scientists warn

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2019

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