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Female bear with cubs observe a visitor

Spot the pattern: Whisker-prints and citizen science

Lalini Pedris 15 Sep 2017
Deforestation in Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

What works in conservation? In-depth series starts next week

Shreya Dasgupta 15 Sep 2017

Ecologist wins Heinz environment prize for airborne mapping that informs policy

Mongabay.com 14 Sep 2017

Curiosity saves the cat: Tourism helps reinvent the jaguar

Jack Elliot Marley 13 Sep 2017

Central Africa’s ivory trade shifts underground, according to new report

Mongabay.com 12 Sep 2017

Keeping lions at bay to keep them going

Alexandra Popescu 12 Sep 2017

Rethinking camera traps for the small, fast, and elusive

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 11 Sep 2017

Deforestation in Cambodia linked to ill health in children

Shreya Dasgupta 11 Sep 2017

A lingering ‘legacy’: Deforestation warms climate more than expected

Mongabay.com 8 Sep 2017
Whale shark off the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

DNA barcoding helps identify endangered species from market specimens of sharks and rays

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 6 Sep 2017

A global view from a mountain town: how conservation became ingrained in Monteverde

Caitlin Looby 6 Sep 2017

Fishing mortality of mako sharks ten times higher than fisheries’ estimates

Neha Jain 5 Sep 2017

381 new species described from the Amazon over two-year period

Mongabay.com 4 Sep 2017

Saving the Serranía de San Lucas, a vital link in the ‘jaguar corridor’

Sean Mowbray 1 Sep 2017
A snow leopard comes in for a close-up. Photo courtesy of Snow Leopard Trust.

Collateral damage: Snow leopards and trophy hunting in Kyrgyzstan

Katie Arnold 31 Aug 2017

App combines computer vision and crowdsourcing to explore Earth’s biodiversity, one photo at a time

Colleen O'Brien 30 Aug 2017

Bats and viruses: Beating back a bad reputation

John Cannon 29 Aug 2017

‘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

Katharine Hayhoe on how to talk about climate change: ‘Share from the heart and then the head’

Mike Gaworecki 8 Aug 2017

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

Morgan Erickson-Davis 7 Aug 2017

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