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When a red snapper is more than just a fish: Q&A fisheries scientist Elle Wibisono

Basten Gokkon 22 Mar 2023
Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon Rainforest.

Amazon deforestation linked to reduced Tibetan snows, Antarctic ice loss: Study

Claire Asher 8 Mar 2023

No croak: New silent frog species described from Tanzania’s ‘sky island’ forests

Liz Kimbrough 9 Feb 2023
Rivers of metlwater on Greenland's ice sheet

‘Not a good sign’: Study shows Greenland temperatures at 1,000-year high

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 8 Feb 2023
A blackwater oxbow lake in the Peruvian Amazon.

Forest modeling misses the water for the carbon: Q&A with Antonio Nobre & Anastassia Makarieva

Judith D. Schwartz 7 Feb 2023
A chameleon on a branch.

Understanding reptile intelligence can aid conservation and safeguard ecosystems (commentary)

Deyatima Ghosh 19 Jan 2023
A reddish brown jellyfish in the deep sea.

Democratizing the deep sea: Q&A with Ocean Discovery League’s Katy Croff Bell

Abhishyant Kidangoor 2 Jan 2023
Satellite image of Mount Everest.

Airbus Foundation looks to put satellites to new biodiversity conservation uses

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2022
An orangutan.

Fears for academic freedom as Indonesia doubles down on scientists’ ban

Hans Nicholas Jong, Lusia Arumingtyas 9 Dec 2022
A researcher tagging a mouse lemur in Ranomafana National Park in Madagascar. Image by Rhett A. Butler.

Millions are spent on climate research in Africa. Western institutes get most of it

Malavika Vyawahare 17 Nov 2022

Here come the sunbirds: New species from Indonesia’s Wakatobi Islands

Basten Gokkon 9 Nov 2022

As Indonesia paints rosy picture for orangutans, scientists ask: Where’s the data?

Philip Jacobson 3 Oct 2022
A fishing community settlement in Salonga

Catfished: New species described from DRC after mistaken identity

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Sep 2022
A veriety of drugs in vials and an IV bottle.

Humans are dosing Earth’s waterways with medicines. It isn’t healthy.

Malavika Vyawahare 22 Sep 2022
Deploying a weather balloon

Agulhas Current enigma: An oceanic gap in our climate understanding

Petro Kotzé 21 Sep 2022
A healthy coral reef in Tahiti.

Scientists develop AI that can listen to the pulse of a reef being restored

Cassie Freund 25 Aug 2022

New voyage checks in on Darwin’s species, nearly 200 years after Beagle

Suzana Camargo 19 Aug 2022
A beetle on an Inírida flower.

How a rare Colombian flower cultivated with Indigenous know-how is changing lives

Soraya Kishtwari 18 Aug 2022
Bluefins sizing up a school of anchovies.

Sea life may downsize with ocean warming — bringing challenging impacts

Elizabeth Devitt 3 Aug 2022
Dawn Wright giving a talk at an event.

‘We’ve got to help the oceans to help us’: Q&A with deep-sea explorer Dawn Wright

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 2 Aug 2022
Study co-author Corneille Ewango.

In Congo, a carbon sink like no other risks being carved up for oil

John Cannon 28 Jul 2022
Artist's impression of the Nombe kangaroo.

Giant kangaroo fossil points to previously unknown species in New Guinea

Jim Tan 27 Jul 2022
Scientists and researchers from INPE gather outside the São José dos Campos office of INPE in protest

Brazil’s new deforestation data board sparks fear of censorship of forest loss, fires

Sarah Brown 22 Jul 2022
A bracelet with figurines carved from highly prized red coral.

New DNA test aims to help bust illegal trade in precious red coral

Kristy Hamilton 21 Jul 2022
The bright-orange Tubastraea dendroida is named for its unique tree-like branching shape.

Colorful new corals bedeck the busy waters off Hong Kong, study shows

Liz Kimbrough 11 Jul 2022
A chimpanzee in the Congo rainforests

Data from droppings: Researchers draw up a genetic ID map for chimps

Charles Mpaka 1 Jul 2022

Andean eagles have managed to adapt to fragmenting habitats — for now

Maxwell Radwin 30 Jun 2022

Miners, drug traffickers and loggers: Is Costa Rica’s Corcovado National Park on the verge of collapse?

Maxwell Radwin 20 Jun 2022
Lowland tropical rainforest

Indigenous knowledge settles question of a Bornean tree species: Study

Carolyn Cowan 17 Jun 2022

Even Antarctic snow can’t escape the plastic peril, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 10 Jun 2022
A rendition of D. xiezhi head-to-head butting. Image courtesy of Xiao Cong Guo and Yu Wang.

‘Strange’ giraffoid fossil shows giraffes evolved long necks to win mates: study

Malavika Vyawahare 6 Jun 2022
A river running through an old-growth lowland rainforest in Brunei.

Fossil evidence confirms persistence of prehistoric forests in Brunei

John Cannon 31 May 2022

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