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Piñatex fibers in the drying stage. The pineapple leaf fiber has great tensile strength and flexibility. Image courtesy of Riikka Juva/Ananas Anam.

Sustainable fashion: Biomaterial revolution replacing fur and skins

Jenny Gonzales 8 Apr 2022

Afield at last, researchers head out for a new season

Mike Gaworecki 7 Apr 2022
A hawksbill sea turtle

Shell of a comeback: New app, awareness campaigns bring hope for hawksbill turtles

Carly Nairn 6 Apr 2022
Pangolin_by Rhett Butler

‘A risky business’: Online illegal wildlife trade continues to soar in Myanmar

Carolyn Cowan 4 Apr 2022

Researchers turn to drones for that big-picture view of the forest canopy

Caitlin Looby 21 Mar 2022

World’s biggest tropical crop bank opens in Colombia, taking food research high tech

Liz Kimbrough 18 Mar 2022

Climate-positive, high-tech metals are polluting Earth, but solutions await

Claire Asher 15 Mar 2022

Study finds major brands selling cat food that contain protected sharks

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 9 Mar 2022

For fire-ravaged northern Thailand, there’s now an app to battle the blaze

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 28 Feb 2022

Hippos, manatees, and how the sounds of African wildlife aid their conservation

Mike Gaworecki 23 Feb 2022
lithium mine

At a disputed Native massacre site, tribes brace for a new, lithium-driven rush

Carly Nairn 23 Feb 2022
Toco

Winds of change: Detecting species from airborne DNA just got real

Carolyn Cowan 11 Feb 2022
White handed gibbon

Malaysia’s white-handed gibbons may be two subspecies, not one, study shows

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 9 Feb 2022

Tech revolution holds world of promise for conservation, but challenges persist

Caitlin Looby 2 Feb 2022

For species on the very brink of extinction, cloning is a loaded last resort

Caitlin Looby 5 Jan 2022

In the Brazilian Amazon, solar energy brings light — and new opportunities

Ana Ionova 4 Jan 2022

More Zoom, less climate gloom as conferences move online, study finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 4 Jan 2022

As its topsoil washes away, the Corn Belt is losing yields — and carbon

Liz Kimbrough 31 Dec 2021

The Top Positive Environmental News Stories from 2021

Mike DiGirolamo 23 Dec 2021

‘We scientists engage in soft diplomacy’: Q&A with Christine Wilkinson

Caitlin Looby 23 Dec 2021
Flowering rainforest tree in the Colombian Amazon. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

Could the Blockchain help save the Amazon? (commentary)

Sophia Wood 22 Dec 2021

Camera trap study shows conservation efforts ‘are working’ on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula: Video

Liz Kimbrough 13 Dec 2021
These women, who are part of the Mam indigenous community, are harvesting pine nuts in a forest in Cajolá, Quetzaltenango, to be sold later at a local market. Our work supports reforestation efforts and helps local families sustain themselves economically. Photo credit: Sergio Izquierdo

Conservation and food production must work in tandem, new study says

Sheryl Lee Tian Tong 13 Dec 2021
Sara Beery observes elephants in the field at Mara North Conservancy in Kenya with the Mara Elephant Project’s long-term monitoring team. The tuskless mother elephant is known as ID129. Image courtesy of Chags Photography for the Mara Elephant Project.

Boosting human and machine expertise with conservation tech: Q&A with Sara Beery

Caitlin Looby 13 Dec 2021

In wildlife traffickers, the internet finds a cancel target everyone agrees on

Caitlin Looby 9 Dec 2021
TNC scientist Eddie Game checks an acoustic recorder in Papua New Guinea. Photo © Justine E. Hausheer / The Nature Conservancy

Collaboration is key to scaling conservation technologies (commentary)

Jonathan Palmer 7 Dec 2021
Zuzana Burivalova. Photo credit: Tobias Corts

Bioacoustics researcher wins top award for positive impact toward solving global challenges

Erik Hoffner 2 Dec 2021

Galápagos census looks at impacts on turtles during and after COVID lockdown

Michelle Carrere 29 Nov 2021

For South Africa’s dwindling renosterveld, there’s now a ‘panic button’ app

Ryan Truscott 25 Nov 2021

Think that GIF of the smoking chimp is funny? The chimp wasn’t laughing

Tina Deines 17 Nov 2021

‘Superstitious belief kills pangolins’: Q&A with biologist Elisa Panjang

Caitlin Looby 16 Nov 2021

Indigenous bioacoustics listens to the land for conservation and tradition

Mike Gaworecki 27 Oct 2021

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