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One-stop shop for digital global maps launched

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 30 Apr 2018

Palm oil supplier to food giants clears forest, peatland in Indonesia, Greenpeace says

Mongabay.com 30 Apr 2018

Cities worldwide use photo app technology to compete in nature observation challenge

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 25 Apr 2018

Restoring flagging oil palm plantations to forest may benefit clouded leopards, study finds

Mongabay.com 24 Apr 2018

Scientists discover carbon ‘fingerprint’ in tree rings

Morgan Erickson-Davis 20 Apr 2018
Indonesian rainforest. Photo for Mongabay by Rhett A. Butler.

Unified land-use map for Indonesia nears launch, but concerns over access remain

Hans Nicholas Jong 19 Apr 2018

eDNA may offer an early warning signal for deadly frog pathogen

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 18 Apr 2018

Understanding bird behavior key to developing risk reduction technologies

Danielle Bettermann 13 Apr 2018

From galaxies far, far away to endangered species just over the hill

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 11 Apr 2018

New remote-sensing technique used to determine carbon losses in Sub-Saharan Africa

Mike Gaworecki 10 Apr 2018

Rubber plantation in Cameroon edges closer to UNESCO World Heritage Site

Rachel Fritts 6 Apr 2018

You don’t need a bigger boat: AI buoys safeguard swimmers and sharks

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 5 Apr 2018

‘Ropeless’ consortium aims to end entanglements of declining North Atlantic right whales

John Cannon 29 Mar 2018

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

Erik Hoffner 28 Mar 2018

Borneo’s elephants prefer degraded forests, a new study finds

John Cannon 27 Mar 2018

Tech and collaboration are putting indigenous land rights on the map

Lalini Pedris 26 Mar 2018

How to build a Guardian: students learn about making technology work in the field

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 23 Mar 2018

Sarawak’s Penan now have detailed maps of their ancestral homeland

John Cannon 20 Mar 2018
Intact palm swamp along a rainforest lake in southeastern Peru. Miners seek gold in the sediments, cutting trees and inputting harmful mercury into waters to identify the tiny gold pieces in the soil.

Radar returns to remote sensing through free, near-real-time global imagery

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 19 Mar 2018

Camera traps nab crop-raiding animals near farms in the Amazon

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2018

Small hydropower a big global issue overlooked by science and policy

Claire Salisbury 13 Mar 2018

In blood-sucking leeches, scientists find a genetic snapshot of local wildlife

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 13 Mar 2018

Oil palm, rubber could trigger ‘storm’ of deforestation in the Congo Basin

John Cannon 12 Mar 2018

Where does your timber come from? Genetic analysis may soon tell you

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 8 Mar 2018
Illegal forest clearingfor oil palm in Riau Province. Photo by Rhett A Butler

Public access to Indonesian plantation data still mired in bureaucracy

Hans Nicholas Jong 8 Mar 2018

How effective is environmental restoration?

Mike Gaworecki 6 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

Drone photography allows scientists to measure marine mammals without a catch

Danielle Bettermann 2 Mar 2018

Andes dams twice as numerous as thought are fragmenting the Amazon

Claire Asher 28 Feb 2018

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

Mongabay.com 28 Feb 2018

Detecting disasters on community lands in the Amazon: film highlights indigenous struggle

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 27 Feb 2018
Giraffes at dawn in Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park. Photo courtesy of George Powell.

Making mountains out of molehills: system builds public-access big data from many sources

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 23 Feb 2018

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