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Mongabay Explains: How high-tech tools are used for successful reforestation

Mongabay.com 30 Aug 2023
Tridi Oasis recycles PET bottles to produce rPET flakes which could be used to make packing materials and textiles.

Funding circularity: Investing in Asia’s circular economy business models

Abhishyant Kidangoor 1 Aug 2023
Debbie Saunders

‘Immense potential’ in tech: Q&A with Wildlife Drones CEO Debbie Saunders

Abhishyant Kidangoor 31 Jul 2023
Canopy in fall.

Genetically engineered trees stoke climate hope — and environmental fears

Juliette Portala 27 Jul 2023

XPRIZE Rainforest finalists named for top conservation technology award

Mike DiGirolamo 25 Jul 2023

A just energy transition requires better governance & equity in the DRC

Mike DiGirolamo 19 Jul 2023
Landsat views the forests from high above the Earth.

New Tree Tech: Real-time, long-term, high-tech reforestation monitoring

Claire Asher 13 Jul 2023
Drone carrying self-burying seed carriers .

New Tree Tech: Cutting-edge drones give reforestation a helping hand

Claire Asher 12 Jul 2023
Women carrying saplings.

New Tree Tech: Data-driven reforestation methods match trees to habitats

Claire Asher 11 Jul 2023
A operator flying drones.

New Tree Tech: AI, drones, satellites and sensors give reforestation a boost

Claire Asher 10 Jul 2023
Coral reef, ocean, mangroves, and forest.

New digital tool maps blue carbon ecosystems in high resolution

Abhishyant Kidangoor 12 Jun 2023
Kevin Marriott with a drone.

Competing for rainforest conservation: Q&A with XPRIZE’s Kevin Marriott

Abhishyant Kidangoor 2 Jun 2023
A flock of snow geese.

Feathered forecast: Tech tools comb weather data for bird migrations

Abhishyant Kidangoor 20 Apr 2023

Return of the GEDI: Space-based, forest carbon-mapping laser array saved

Abhishyant Kidangoor 17 Apr 2023
A 200-square-meter (2,150-square-foot) small-scale floating solar photovoltaic pilot project in Los Baños, Laguna

Floating solar project on Philippines natural lake brings hope — and questions

Jewel S. Cabrera 10 Apr 2023
Conservation technology and wildlife manager, Eleanor Flatt, installs a GSM camera trap in the forests protected and managed by Osa Conservation.  Image by Marco Molina.

As conservation technology grows, so does Mongabay’s coverage

Mike DiGirolamo 4 Apr 2023
A squirrel and a bird share a bird feeder.

Bioacoustics in your backyard: Q&A with conservation technologist Topher White

Abhishyant Kidangoor 31 Mar 2023
Trees in the plains of Sahel.

Scientists map nearly 10 billion trees, stored carbon, in Africa’s drylands

John Cannon 10 Mar 2023

Goodbye to blue skies? The trouble with engineered solutions

Mike DiGirolamo 21 Feb 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
From center left to right: David Cooper, CBD Deputy Executive Secretary; COP 15 President Huang Runqiu, Minister of Ecology and Environment, China; Xia Yingxian, China; and Elizabeth Maruma Mrema, CBD Executive Secretary. Image by UN biodiversity via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Nations adopt Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

Latoya Abulu, Sahana Ghosh 20 Dec 2022
Satellite image of Mount Everest.

Airbus Foundation looks to put satellites to new biodiversity conservation uses

Mongabay.com 14 Dec 2022
Different kinds of LED filament bulbs.

LED lights could contribute to massive carbon reductions

Ian Morse 9 Nov 2022

‘Amped-up citizen science’ to save the world: Q&A with Conservation AI Hub’s Grant Hamilton

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 Aug 2022

Hear that? Bioacoustics is having its moment, but the technology still needs tuning

Abhishyant Kidangoor 18 Aug 2022
Three forms of cryptocurrency. Image via Pixabay.

Blockchain for conservation? Maybe, but leave the crypto out

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Aug 2022
A huge swarm of locusts devours corn

High tech early warning system could curb next South African locust swarms

Anna Weekes 29 Jun 2022
Park rangers walk next to a fenceline

Smart Parks, the Dutch technologists tackling poaching with technology

Jim Tan 20 Jun 2022

Can conservation technology help save our rapidly disappearing species? | Problem Solved

Mike DiGirolamo 8 Jun 2022
A model artesian well that ICRAF installed in Winongan, Pasuruan district. The well is equipped with a valve for more efficient water use.

Better deep-bore wells aim to stop Indonesia’s groundwater waste

Asad Asnawi 28 Apr 2022
A marine researcher launching a drone for ocean color surveys

Where satellites come up short, drones can fill in a picture of our oceans

Shreya Dasgupta 27 Apr 2022
A Royal Navy research vessel patrols Antarctica.

Robot revolution: A new real-time accounting system for ocean carbon

Elizabeth Devitt 18 Apr 2022

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