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A North Pacific right whale. Photo courtesy of NOAA.

Listen to the first-ever recordings of right whales breaking into song

Mike Gaworecki 9 Jul 2019

Film that fish: Stereo-video speeds surveys of marine fish communities

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 5 Jul 2019

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

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 2 Jul 2019
A tourist boat in Donsol joins several others in search of whale sharks. Image by Nina Unlay.

What happens to an ecotourism town when the wildlife doesn’t show?

Nina Unlay 28 Jun 2019

Researchers discover right whales singing for the first time ever

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2019

Sponges supply DNA for new method of monitoring aquatic biodiversity

Lakshmi Supriya 26 Jun 2019
clearing mines in Angola, a HALO Trust worker wearing blue protective gear on his knees probing grass and dirt with his hands. Credit: The HALO Trust

Angola pledges $60m to fund landmine clearance in national parks

Jim Tan 25 Jun 2019

Carbon to burn: UK net-zero emissions pledge undermined by biomass energy

Justin Catanoso 19 Jun 2019

New tool helps monitor forest change within commodities supply chains

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 18 Jun 2019

Predator-free by 2050? High-tech hopes for New Zealand’s big conservation dream

Monica Evans 13 Jun 2019

Arctic sea ice extent just hit a record low for early June; worse may come

Gloria Dickie 12 Jun 2019
Fishing boats in Seno de Última Esperanza (Last Hope Sound), in southern Chile. Image by Robert Nunn via Flickr.

Chile pledges to make its fishing vessel tracking data public

Marianne Messina 31 May 2019

Tiny tracking tags help decode how echolocating bats navigate

Lakshmi Supriya 30 May 2019

Chatty river dolphins in Brazil might help us understand evolution of marine mammal communication

Mike Gaworecki 28 May 2019

Ñembi Guasu: Huge new conservation area in Bolivia’s Gran Chaco

Yvette Sierra Praeli 23 May 2019
A bucket of fish at a market in Labuan Bajo, Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay

Monitoring hack shines a light on fishing boats operating under cover of dark

Basten Gokkon 17 May 2019

Canopy-dwelling rainforest mammals most sensitive to human disturbance

Mongabay.com 15 May 2019

Models, maps, and citizen scientists working to save the Great Barrier Reef

Marianne Messina 14 May 2019

Counting on eDNA for a faster, easier way to count coral

Stephanie Parker 8 May 2019

‘Landscape of fearlessness’: bushbuck emboldened following top-predator decline in Mozambique

Sophie Manson 6 May 2019

Slave labor found at second Starbucks-certified Brazilian coffee farm

Daniel Camargos, from Repórter Brasil 3 May 2019

Recently discovered Brazilian river dolphin’s calls could help us understand evolution of marine mammal communication

Mongabay.com 1 May 2019

Creating a high-tech island to save one of the world’s rarest birds

Hannah Thomasy 25 Apr 2019

‘Judas’ snakes lead scientists on a high-tech Easter egg hunt for pythons

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 24 Apr 2019

Camera trap study finds a threatened high-elevation mammal community in Peru

Mike Gaworecki 23 Apr 2019

Lift-off for thermal-imaging system to estimate wildlife populations

James Fair 18 Apr 2019

Solving the mystery of the UK’s vanishing hen harriers

Lakshmi Supriya 12 Apr 2019

Arctic in trouble: Sea ice melt falls to record lows for early April

Gloria Dickie 11 Apr 2019

Peru: Get to know the diverse wildlife of the cloud forests of Pampa Hermosa | VIDEOS

Yvette Sierra Praeli 11 Apr 2019
Salted shark meat, called cecina, drying in the sun. Image courtesy of MarAlliance.

Fishing for sharks in Honduras’s sanctuary seas: Q&A with biologist Gabriela Ochoa

Michelle Carrere 8 Apr 2019

Those kicks were fast as lightning: Kangaroo rats evade deadly snake strikes

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 Apr 2019

Combining artificial intelligence and citizen science to improve wildlife surveys

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 22 Mar 2019

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