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New study suggests Borneo’s had elephants for thousands of years

John Cannon 31 Jan 2018

Two new dog-faced bats discovered in Panama and Ecuador

Mongabay.com 31 Jan 2018

For Australia’s fire-starting falcons, pyromania serves up the prey

Mongabay.com 30 Jan 2018

As nesting beaches warm, sea turtle populations are turning female–how scientists found out

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 29 Jan 2018

Do catch and release-induced abortions harm shark and ray populations?

Jack Elliot Marley 26 Jan 2018

The ups and downs of marine protected areas: Examining the evidence

Shreya Dasgupta 25 Jan 2018

Smallest wild cat in the Americas faces big problems — but hope exists

Niki Rust 24 Jan 2018

Muskox and other Arctic mammals are feeling the heat of climate change

Gloria Dickie 23 Jan 2018

Friend, not foe: Review highlights benefits of predators and scavengers

Mongabay.com 23 Jan 2018

Mesoamerican Reef gets improving bill of health

Mongabay.com 22 Jan 2018

NASA: Global surface temperatures in 2017 second-hottest on record despite no El Niño

Mongabay.com 18 Jan 2018

680000 acres of Amazon rainforest may be lost to Peru’s new roads

Morgan Erickson-Davis 18 Jan 2018

A saiga time bomb? Bad news for Central Asia’s beleaguered antelope

Morgan Erickson-Davis 17 Jan 2018

Study reveals forests have yet another climate-protection superpower

Morgan Erickson-Davis 16 Jan 2018

Ancient human sites may have distorted our understanding of the Amazon’s natural ecology

Kimber Price 16 Jan 2018

Peru declares a huge new national park in the Amazon

Yvette Sierra Praeli 12 Jan 2018
Pacific bluefin tuna. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

A Pacific bluefin tuna sold for $323,000. Can the species be saved?

Bonnie Waycott 12 Jan 2018

Moth rediscovered in Malaysia mimics appearance and behavior of bees to escape predators

Mike Gaworecki 12 Jan 2018

Trump threatens NASA climate satellite missions as Congress stalls

Giovanni Ortolani 12 Jan 2018

There’s a new member of the lemur family

Mike Gaworecki 11 Jan 2018

Critically endangered monkeys found in Ghana forest slated for mining

Morgan Erickson-Davis 11 Jan 2018

Wars kill wildlife in Africa’s protected areas, study finds

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2018

Lions deal blow to giraffe numbers by targeting young, study finds

Mongabay.com 11 Jan 2018

Efforts to save island wildlife from extinction get a boost from new database

Mike Gaworecki 10 Jan 2018

Study: Amazon dams are disrupting ecologically vital flood pulses

Claire Salisbury 10 Jan 2018

Lessons from Indigenous peoples about coping with climate change, plus the call of the night parrot

Mike Gaworecki 9 Jan 2018

2017 was third-hottest year on record in U.S. and costliest in terms of extreme weather and climate disasters

Mongabay.com 9 Jan 2018

Global warming, pollution supersize the oceans’ oxygen-depleted dead zones

Basten Gokkon 9 Jan 2018

‘AudioMoth’ device aims to deliver low-cost, power-efficient monitoring of remote landscapes

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jan 2018

Scientists surprised by orchid bee biodiversity near oil palm plantations

Anna Katrina Hunter 4 Jan 2018

10 top conservation tech innovations from 2017

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 4 Jan 2018

Reef bleaching five times more frequent now than in the 1980s, study finds

Mongabay.com 4 Jan 2018

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