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AI can ‘help us move mountains’ for people and planet, Watson developer says

Erik Hoffner 28 Mar 2018
Earlier reports based on satellite data suggested that the Danger Islands could be home to several penguin "supercolonies." However, heavy pack ice is common around the Danger Islands, even in austral summer, making difficult to access this area to conduct a comprehensive survey. Credit: Rachael Herman, Louisiana State University, © Stony Brook University

Penguin mega-colony discovered using satellites and drones, raising scientists’ hopes

Mongabay.com 3 Mar 2018

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

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2018

New app hopes to reduce wildlife deaths on India’s roads, railway lines

Shreya Dasgupta 23 Jan 2018

Rainforests: the year in review 2017

Rhett Ayers Butler 4 Jan 2018

Harnessing the power of camera trap bycatch data to monitor threatened species (commentary)

Lorraine Scotson 1 Dec 2017

Jane Goodall interview: ‘The most important thing is sharing good news’

Mongabay.com 17 Nov 2017

Citizen scientists around the world are monitoring elephants in Gabon via camera traps — and you can too

Mike Gaworecki 10 Nov 2017

Mapping how to feed 9 billion humans, while avoiding environmental calamity

Rhett Ayers Butler 8 Nov 2017

Scientists plan to map a ‘safety net’ for Planet Earth

Mike Gaworecki 7 Nov 2017
The scale-crested pygmy tyrant lives in Central America and northern South America. This individual was capturing during a bird survey, banded, and released. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Author Steven Kotler on tackling the biodiversity crisis with technology

Mongabay 25 Oct 2017

Black rhinos in Tanzania now monitored via sensors implanted directly in their horns

Mike Gaworecki 24 Oct 2017

‘SALT’ alliance aims to tackle illegal fishing on a global scale

Mongabay.com 6 Oct 2017

Technologies that boost conservation efforts right now and in the future

Mike Gaworecki 6 Sep 2017

Plastic Fantastic? Indonesia plans to turn waste into road tar

Luh De Suriyani 10 Aug 2017

HydroCalculator: new, free, online tool helps citizens assess dams

Claire Salisbury 7 Aug 2017

Visualizing the impacts of human disturbance on tropical forest biodiversity

Mike Gaworecki 26 Jul 2017

Footprints in the forest: The future of the Sumatran rhino

John Cannon 23 Jun 2017

Underwater cameras let scientists dive beneath the surface with dolphins

Mike Gaworecki 5 Jun 2017

Overestimated range maps for endemic birds in India’s Western Ghats lead to underestimated threats, study finds

Mike Gaworecki 27 Apr 2017

Crystal Davis, director of Global Forest Watch, on conservation and Big Data

Mike Gaworecki 18 Apr 2017

WildTech covers the high- and low-tech solutions making conservation more effective

Mike Gaworecki 4 Apr 2017
Haze in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Greenpeace to take Indonesian forestry ministry to Supreme Court over environmental data

Mongabay.com 9 Mar 2017

LemurFaceID: The facial recognition tech helping researchers track lemurs in the wild

Mike Gaworecki 1 Mar 2017

Naomi Oreskes on what stories we can’t let get lost in the noise of 2017 and why scientists should speak up

Mike Gaworecki 21 Feb 2017

Camera traps proving to be powerful tool for studying endangered species in remote locations

Mike Gaworecki 15 Feb 2017

Investors learning to pay heed to community land rights

John Cannon 13 Feb 2017

Fighting rhino poaching in India, CSI-style

Giovanni Ortolani 9 Feb 2017

Protecting Marine Protected Areas

Elizabeth Devitt 1 Feb 2017

‘Revolutionary’ new biodiversity maps reveal big gaps in conservation

John Cannon 27 Jan 2017

The lionfish invasion: A call to arms?

Elizabeth Devitt 14 Dec 2016

Q&A with the creators of the ‘Amazonian Travels of Richard Evans Schultes’ story map

Mike Gaworecki 2 Dec 2016

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