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‘Science needs to catch up’: Deep sea mining looms over unstudied ecosystems

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Aug 2017

Good quality monitoring surveys key to wildlife conservation: new study

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Aug 2017

Renewable energy to power 139 countries? Scientists say it’s possible

Mongabay.com 23 Aug 2017

Deforestation from gold mining in Peru continues, despite gov’t crackdowns

John Cannon 22 Aug 2017

How animals react to a solar eclipse

Shreya Dasgupta 21 Aug 2017
A male indigo bunting pauses in Texas during

Scientists combine crowd-sourced field observations with land-use and climate models to identify steps for migratory bird protection

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 18 Aug 2017

A clouded future: Asia’s enigmatic clouded leopard threatened by palm oil

Sean Mowbray 17 Aug 2017

New study: Bird species blossom in stable climates

John Cannon 17 Aug 2017

From tarsiers to cloud rats, scientist strives to save Philippine species

Jacqueline Hernandez 15 Aug 2017

Nearly one-third of bat species in North America are on the decline

Mike Gaworecki 14 Aug 2017

The American pika: A case study in wildlife acclimating to climate change

Mike Gaworecki 10 Aug 2017

Monkey rediscovered in Brazil after 80 years

Christina Selby 9 Aug 2017

Madagascar’s radiated tortoises have personalities, too

Jacqueline Hernandez 9 Aug 2017

NOAA announces largest-ever Gulf of Mexico ‘dead zone’

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Aug 2017

HydroCalculator: new, free, online tool helps citizens assess dams

Claire Salisbury 7 Aug 2017

Long-term thermal imaging video surveillance records how disease affects hibernating bats

Danielle Bettermann 7 Aug 2017

Greater collaboration between companies and governments necessary to enhance climate action, report finds

Mike Gaworecki 3 Aug 2017

New genetic analyses help scientists rethink the elephant family tree

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 3 Aug 2017

Study examines sex-specific responses of Neotropical bats to habitat fragmentation

Mike Gaworecki 2 Aug 2017

Five instances in which Peru won the battle against deforestation

Milton López Tarabochia 2 Aug 2017

Western Chimpanzee numbers declined by more than 80 percent over the past quarter century

Mike Gaworecki 31 Jul 2017

Conservation community failing to use evidence to make decisions, scientists say

Shreya Dasgupta 31 Jul 2017

Open-source species location data supports global biodiversity analyses

Colleen O'Brien 31 Jul 2017

Is Norwegian money funding Congo deforestation?

Morgan Erickson-Davis 28 Jul 2017

Randomized controlled trial in Uganda finds that paying people not to cut down trees works

Mike Gaworecki 27 Jul 2017

Visualizing the impacts of human disturbance on tropical forest biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jul 2017

Proposed Colombia dam threatens to wipe out endangered plants, disrupt river

Taran Volckhausen 26 Jul 2017

How effective are wildlife corridors like Singapore’s Eco-Link?

Maxine Chen 26 Jul 2017

Stopping climate change may be harder than scientists thought

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Jul 2017

Pangolin hunting skyrockets in Central Africa, driven by international trade

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2017

Meet the new giant sunfish that has evaded scientists for centuries

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Jul 2017

Orangutans find home in degraded forests

John Cannon 24 Jul 2017