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Antarctica now shedding ice six times faster than in 1979

Mongabay.com 14 Jan 2019

Drones with thermal cameras help detect camouflaged species

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 10 Jan 2019
Saravanan points to a large salt pan, part of Ennore Creek in the city of Chennai. The nearby port’s plan to convert the area into industrial real estate sparked protests among fishing communities in 2016. Image by Mahima Jain.

Protecting India’s fishing villages: Q&A with ‘maptivist’ Saravanan

Mahima Jain 10 Jan 2019

Rhett Butler on how sound can save forests and top rainforest storylines to watch in 2019

Mike Gaworecki 8 Jan 2019

Flashing lights ward off livestock-hunting pumas in northern Chile

John Cannon 7 Jan 2019
Topher White of Rainforest Connection installing a bioacoustic device in the forest canopy. Image by Ben Von Wong.

Eavesdrop on forest sounds to effectively monitor biodiversity, researchers say

Shreya Dasgupta 3 Jan 2019

Machine learning tool helps prioritize plants for conservation

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 3 Jan 2019
Fungi in Yunnan, China. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Rainforests: storylines to watch in 2019

Rhett Ayers Butler 2 Jan 2019

Top camera trapping stories of 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 31 Dec 2018

Top 10 happy environmental stories of 2018

Basten Gokkon 31 Dec 2018
Rainforest in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

The biggest rainforest news stories in 2018

Rhett Ayers Butler 30 Dec 2018

10 ways conservation tech shifted into auto in 2018

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 Dec 2018

Drone 3D models help assess risk of turtle nesting beaches to sea level rise

David Klinges 27 Dec 2018
The Great Barrier Reef in Australia. Image by Christopher Brunner/ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies via Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0).

2018’s top 10 ocean news stories (commentary)

Douglas McCauley, Francis Joyce 24 Dec 2018
Wild orchids still attached to tree branches, for sale in a street market in China. Photo courtesy Amy Hinsley.

Social media, e-commerce sites facilitate illegal orchid trade

Stephanie Parker 21 Dec 2018

DNA test helps officials spot dodgy shark shipments

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 21 Dec 2018

Illegal mining in the Amazon ‘not comparable to any other period of its history’

Kimberley Brown 20 Dec 2018

Photos highlight evolving roles of AI, citizen science in species research

David Klinges 17 Dec 2018

Deforestation in Brazil’s cerrado falls

Mongabay.com 16 Dec 2018

Hobby-grade drones can monitor marine animals beneath the surface

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 14 Dec 2018

One map to rule them all: Indonesia launches unified land-use chart

Basten Gokkon 13 Dec 2018

Satellite trackers help fight vultures’ extinction in southern Africa

Munyaradzi Makoni 13 Dec 2018

COP24: Nations complicit in ignoring bioenergy climate bomb, experts say

Justin Catanoso 13 Dec 2018

A monitoring network in the Amazon captures a flood of data

Elizabeth Oliveira 11 Dec 2018
Rainforest on Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula. Photo by Rhett Butler.

Secondary forests in Costa Rica are re-cleared within decades

Rodrigo Pérez Ortega 7 Dec 2018

Peru’s Brazil nut harvesters learn to monitor forests with drones

Yvette Sierra Praeli 6 Dec 2018
Beijing smog as seen from the China World Hotel, March 2003, during the SARS outbreak. Photo by Kevin Dooley.

Mosses could help rapidly detect pollution

Bailey Bedford 5 Dec 2018

Bits of DNA in ocean water can reveal white sharks swimming nearby

Sofie Bates 4 Dec 2018

For elusive Javan rhinos, camera traps are a benevolent Big Brother

Nuswantoro 3 Dec 2018

‘Drifters of opportunity’: Seabirds track energy in tidal currents

Mongabay.com 3 Dec 2018

For the birds: Innovations enable tracking of even small flying animals

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 3 Dec 2018
Handroanthus guayacan tree in full bloom.

Tropical trees grow most easily where they are rare

Tom Garlinghouse 3 Dec 2018

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