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Bushmeat hunting threatens hornbills and raptors in Cameroon’s forests, study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Mar 2018

For climate action to take hold, activists need more than just polar bears

Joshua Parfitt 15 Mar 2018

Mysterious new butterfly named after YouTuber Emily Graslie

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2018

Camera traps nab crop-raiding animals near farms in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2018

Small hydropower a big global issue overlooked by science and policy

Claire Salisbury 13 Mar 2018

In blood-sucking leeches, scientists find a genetic snapshot of local wildlife

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 13 Mar 2018

Cerrado: appreciation grows for Brazil’s savannah, even as it vanishes

Alicia Prager, Flávia Milhorance 12 Mar 2018

Beyond polar bears: Arctic animals share in vulnerable climate future

Gloria Dickie 7 Mar 2018

Jaguar numbers rising at field sites, WCS says

Mongabay.com 7 Mar 2018

Climate change imperils tiny animal in the world’s most extreme continent

Bhanu Sridharan 7 Mar 2018

Europe’s beetle species plummet as trees disappear

Morgan Erickson-Davis 6 Mar 2018

Ecotourism payments for more wildlife sightings linked to conservation benefits in Laos

Mongabay.com 5 Mar 2018

Amazon forest to savannah tipping point could be far closer than thought (commentary)

Tom Lovejoy and Carlos Nobre 5 Mar 2018

Mangrove deforestation may be releasing more CO2 than Poland, study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 2 Mar 2018

Drone photography allows scientists to measure marine mammals without a catch

Danielle Bettermann 2 Mar 2018

New thumbnail-sized pygmy squid discovered in Australia

Mongabay.com 2 Mar 2018

Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon

Claire Asher 28 Feb 2018

New study: Radar reveals bats are a bellwether of climate change

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2018

Cambodia’s banteng-eating leopards edge closer to extinction, new study finds

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Feb 2018

Easter Island votes for world’s newest marine reserve

Jack Elliot Marley 27 Feb 2018

Why intact forests are important

Morgan Erickson-Davis 26 Feb 2018

Scientists aim to give engineers the tools for ecologically sensitive development

John Cannon 26 Feb 2018

New maps reveal industrial fishing in over half of world’s oceans

Shreya Dasgupta 24 Feb 2018

Tropical forest fragmentation nearing ‘critical point,’ study finds

Morgan Erickson-Davis 23 Feb 2018
Giraffes at dawn in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park. Photo courtesy of George Powell.

Making mountains out of molehills: system builds public-access big data from many sources

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 23 Feb 2018

Land plants may have evolved much earlier than we thought

Morgan Erickson-Davis 21 Feb 2018

Exploring the minds and inner lives of animals

Mike Gaworecki 20 Feb 2018
An indri (Indri indri), another critically endangered lemur that lives in Makira Natural Park. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Study delves into overlooked community perceptions of conservation impact

Shreya Dasgupta 20 Feb 2018

Deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon dropped 13 percent in 2017

Yvette Sierra Praeli 16 Feb 2018

Queen conch dying out in the Bahamas despite marine parks

Jim Tan 16 Feb 2018

Webs under water: The really bizarre lives of intertidal spiders

Bhanu Sridharan 15 Feb 2018

Drones enable fast, accurate wildlife counts, study shows

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 14 Feb 2018

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