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Acorns on an oak tree.

Drone cameras help scientists distinguish between drought stress & fungus in oaks

Abhishyant Kidangoor 18 Apr 2024
Sargassum in Villa Clara province, Cuba.

Caribbean startups are turning excess seaweed into an agroecology solution

Marlowe Starling 16 Apr 2024
Photo of the captive bay cat in 2008.

On the trail of Borneo’s bay cat, one of the world’s most mysterious felines

Jeremy Hance 15 Apr 2024
People watch a forest fire in Kratié Province, Cambodia.

Research links deforestation in Cambodia to stunting in kids, anemia in women

Anton L. Delgado 11 Apr 2024

A short walk through Amazon time: Interview with archaeologist Anna Roosevelt

Peter Speetjens 10 Apr 2024
Pneumonia in bighorn sheep induces coughing which can be detected acoustically. Image by Noah Israel/Wikimedia Commons.

The potential for tracking wildlife health & disease via bioacoustics is great (commentary)

Jesse Turner 10 Apr 2024
Elephant and calf in Moremi National Park, Botswana. Image by serenea_tang via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

Analysis of largest elephant surveys ever shows stable population, but disturbing trends

Jim Tan 9 Apr 2024

Illegal mining in the Pan Amazon: an ecological disaster for floodplains and local communities

Timothy J. Killeen 9 Apr 2024
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

A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Sean Mowbray 5 Apr 2024
Citrus fruits affected by citrus greening disease, like this lemon, turn green. Image by Marlowe Starling for Mongabay.

Florida growers eye agroecology solution to devastating citrus disease

Marlowe Starling 3 Apr 2024
A man on an e-bike.

E-bikes could cut smog, energy use and congestion globally — but will they?

Charles Pekow 1 Apr 2024
The ventral, lateral and dorsal views of the single specimen of Negros fruit dove collected in the Philippines in 1953.

DNA analysis of rare Philippine fruit dove sheds new light on a 70-year mystery

Mikael Angelo S. Francisco 29 Mar 2024
Shoebill

Study identifies species with a long history but short future amid threats

Carolyn Cowan 28 Mar 2024
A long-tailed macaque (Macaca fascicularis) in Borneo.

Previously logged forests struggle to thrive, even with restoration, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 27 Mar 2024
Researcher Alain Senghor K. Ngute looking at a photo of a millipede on a laptop, and making notes on a clipboard on the desk in front of him. Image by Haimdu Mnendendo.

Tanzania’s ‘mountain of millipedes’ yields six new species

Ryan Truscott 26 Mar 2024
The new orchid species, Solenangis impraedicta, has a long nectar spur. Image courtesy of Marie Savignac.

‘Mind-blowing’ new orchid species found in Madagascar forest canopy

Liz Kimbrough 22 Mar 2024
Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis). Image courtesy of WWF Sweden.

Ancient giant river dolphin species found in the Peruvian Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2024
While India has the highest population of any country in the world, its per capita carbon emissions rank 110th globally.

Ecological overshoot is a ‘behavioral crisis’ & marketing is a solution: Study

Mike DiGirolamo 20 Mar 2024
A yellow-legged hornet "hawking," hovering in front of a honeybee hive to pick slower-moving bees out of midair.

Mini radio tags help track ‘murder hornets’ and other invasive insects

Claudia Geib 14 Mar 2024
The number of oribis (Ourebia ourebi), small, floodplain-bound antelopes, declined by 47%.

Big problems for little animals when floodwaters rise, study finds

Charles Mpaka 14 Mar 2024
Flowers of Scaevola parvifolia

Traditional Aboriginal fire practices can help promote plant diversity: Study

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 13 Mar 2024
A small, bright green chameleon with pale orange patches on its head, clinging to a matching stalk with its tail curled tightly. Image courtesy Christophe Bernier.

New ecoregion proposed for Southern Africa’s threatened ‘sky islands’

Ryan Truscott 13 Mar 2024

Conflict in the canopy as human and climate factors drive liana dominance over trees

Logan Rance 12 Mar 2024
Wildfire on Kangaroo Island, Australia.

Studies still uncovering true extent of 2019-20 Australia wildfire catastrophe

Mongabay Haze Beat 11 Mar 2024
Two chimpanzees interacting playfully.

No joking: Great apes can be silly and playfully tease each other, finds study

Spoorthy Raman 8 Mar 2024
A fisher casts a net in Laguna, Brazil.

Fishers’ memories on par with scientific data on historic catches: Study

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Mar 2024

Rehabilitation of Guatemalan fauna highlights opacity of illegal wildlife trade

Sandra Cuffe 7 Mar 2024
Prairie dogs, from the same family of animals as squirrels, are considered a keystone species in grasslands.

New trackers bring prairie dogs’ little-known underground life to light

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 Mar 2024

Biological field stations deliver high return on investment for conservation, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 6 Mar 2024
A Müller's gibbon.

Male dominance isn’t the default in primate societies, new study shows

Tina Deines 4 Mar 2024
Johan Rockström.

Planetary boundary pioneer Johan Rockström awarded 2024 Tyler Prize

Glenn Scherer 29 Feb 2024

Skywalker gibbons confirmed in Myanmar for the first time

Carolyn Cowan 26 Feb 2024

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