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Thermal drones detect rare tree kangaroos in Australia

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Feb 2025
Banner image of Taranaki Maunga by Robin van Mourik via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0)

Taranaki Maunga, New Zealand mountain, declared a ‘legal person’

Kristine Sabillo 20 Feb 2025

Researchers eye marsupial recovery with first IVF kangaroo embryo

Bobby Bascomb 19 Feb 2025
Banner image of a brush-tailed rock wallaby by Donald Hobern via Wikimedia Commons (CCBY2.0).

Australian bushfires leave wildlife facing increased predator risk, decades of recovery

Kristine Sabillo 18 Feb 2025
Banner image of coconut palm in Palmyra Atoll by USFWS/Andrew S. Wright via Flickr (CC BY-NC 2.0).

Over half of Pacific atoll forests are coconut palm plantations — Study

Kristine Sabillo 12 Feb 2025
Banner image: Satellite image of Japan on Feb. 11 via Himawari Satellite, CSU/CIRA & JMA/JAXA.

Japan sees record snowfall as Australia braces for cyclone Zelia

Kristine Sabillo 11 Feb 2025
Banner image of the recent bushfires in Victoria, courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory.

Australia reeling from floods in the north, bushfires in the south

Kristine Sabillo 4 Feb 2025
Banner image of Gianluca Grimalda on a cargo ship courtesy of Gianluca Grimalda.

Climate researcher fired for refusing air travel wins compensation

Kristine Sabillo 30 Jan 2025

Marshall Islands protects ‘pristine’ Pacific corals with first marine sanctuary

Shanna Hanbury 28 Jan 2025
Banner image of Tropical Cyclone Sean over Australia, courtesy of NASA.

Historic Arctic freeze for US South and record rain in Western Australia

Kristine Sabillo 22 Jan 2025

A venomous Australian spider turns out to be 3 species, not 1

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Jan 2025

Turn problems into solutions for culture and agriculture across Australia and the Americas, Anthony James says

Mike DiGirolamo 14 Jan 2025
A Hooded Pitohui (Pitohui dichrous) from Papua New Guinea.

Indonesia’s voracious songbird trade laps up rare and poisonous pitohuis

Spoorthy Raman 10 Jan 2025

South Australia bans fishing of many sharks and rays in its waters

Mongabay.com 2 Jan 2025
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024

Five Hawaiian crows released into forest after decades of extinction in the wild

Shanna Hanbury 23 Dec 2024
Banner image of a Palau nautilus, courtesy of the Ocean Exploration Trust.

Research vessel E/V Nautilus spots multiple nautiluses for the first time

Kristine Sabillo 12 Dec 2024

Researchers propose a ‘circular economy’ solution to housing affordability against climate change

Mike DiGirolamo 3 Dec 2024
Banner image of the Bougainville forest planted by Carteret Islanders, by Thibault Le Pivain for Mongabay.

PNG climate migrants sail away with native trees to their new home

Mongabay.com 28 Nov 2024
Citizen scientist photographing a Northern Queen of Sheba Orchid in Lesueur National Park, Western Australia. Photo credit: Thomas Mesaglio

Citizen scientists can boost IUCN species assessments, but need better guidance from ecologists

Mahima Samraik 26 Nov 2024
Carteret islanders on a canoe. Image credit: Friends of the Earth.

In a Noah’s Ark move, PNG migrants bring thousands of trees to safer ground

Thibault Le Pivain 21 Nov 2024

World’s largest known coral — visible from space — found in Solomon Islands

Bobby Bascomb 14 Nov 2024
Banner image of Indonesian rainforest by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Mining drove 1.4m hectares of forest loss in last 2 decades: Report

Kristine Sabillo 5 Nov 2024
Mammalogists often use ear tags to identify individuals in their research. But Echidnas do not have external ears to attach a tag. Opiang used color-coded plastic tubing, glued to spines to identify individuals (visible on the right forelimb). Quiet, rare, nocturnal, hard-to-tag and found in remotest parts of New Guinea, field study of echidnas presents tremendous challenges. Photo by Muse Opiang

With rare mammal tourism, observing means conserving (commentary)

Charles Foley, Jon Hall 1 Nov 2024
Banner image of a drone. Image by Potushaft via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Bird-watching with drones? Might want to watch your distance, study says

Kristine Sabillo 28 Oct 2024
Banner image of a koala by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay.

Researchers track koalas using innovative airborne DNA detection tool

Kristine Sabillo 24 Oct 2024

Australia’s Global ‘Nature Positive’ Summit features Indigenous voices, but little government action

Mike DiGirolamo 22 Oct 2024
A canoe of Indigenous design in Colombia. Image by J.J. Javier via Nia Tero.

Indigenous territories & peoples are key to achieving COP16’s 30×30 target (commentary)

Hon. Trevor Mahaga, Ricardo Camilo Niño Izquierdo 18 Oct 2024

Small snails make big comeback in French Polynesia

Liz Kimbrough 27 Sep 2024

Pacific Island nations propose ecocide be adopted as international crime

Shreya Dasgupta 17 Sep 2024
A yellow oriental paper wasp (Polistes olivaceus)

Bats & bees help ni-Vanuatu predict storms — but will climate change interfere?

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 10 Sep 2024
Clown fish in anemone

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

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 Sep 2024

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