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A black beetle.

Sounds of the soil: A new tool for conservation?

Shreya Dasgupta 30 Jun 2023
A little owl (Athene noctua).

Air pollution sensors found to store crucial biodiversity data

Abhishyant Kidangoor 23 Jun 2023
Spot, the robotic dog, is equipped with cameras and audio recorders.

Meet the tech projects competing for a $10m prize to save rainforests

Abhishyant Kidangoor 15 Jun 2023
Fishers in Marshall

Can an app help Liberian artisanal fishers fight illegal fishing?

Edward Blamo 12 Jun 2023
A black soldier fly.

Strengthening crops with insect exoskeletons? Study says yes, by way of the soil

Juliette Portala 12 Jun 2023
Coral reef, ocean, mangroves, and forest.

New digital tool maps blue carbon ecosystems in high resolution

Abhishyant Kidangoor 12 Jun 2023
A river in Nepal.

Seeking environmental DNA in Himalayan rivers: Q&A with Adarsh Man Sherchan

Abhaya Raj Joshi 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 black-backed woodpecker in a Parker 2 Fire area in Modoc County, California.

Woodpeckers for fire recovery? A new online tool tells you how

Abhishyant Kidangoor 29 May 2023
Cows.

A Twitter bot tracks meat production in the Brazilian Amazon

Abhishyant Kidangoor 19 May 2023
Sumatran elephants in Sumatra, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett Ayers Butler

Targeting 3% of protected areas could accelerate progress on 30×30 goals, says Global Conservation’s Jeff Morgan

Rhett Ayers Butler 16 May 2023

Seafloor life abounds around hydrothermal vents hot enough to melt lead

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 5 May 2023
Coral Reef at Marsa Gozlani site, Sharm el Shekh, Egypt

Global Ocean Census aims to find 100,000 marine species in 10 years

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 3 May 2023
North Pacific right whales south of Kodiak Island, Alaska, 2021. Image captured by scientists working under NOAA permit 20465.

How do you study one of the world’s rarest whales?

Dana Wright 25 Apr 2023
Bioacoustic researcher

The more degraded a forest, the quieter its wildlife, new study shows

Carolyn Cowan 24 Apr 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
red panda

Roads, human activity take a toll on red pandas: Q&A with researcher Damber Bista

Abhaya Raj Joshi 10 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
A researcher takes an ultrasound reading from a whale shark.

Uterine implants and underwater ultrasounds aim to demystify shark births

Abhishyant Kidangoor 7 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
A pair of the critically endangered Hainan gibbons.

To save Hainan gibbons, Earth’s rarest primate, experts roll out the big tech

Abhishyant Kidangoor 27 Mar 2023
Example of the kind of virtual environments that gaming companies are currently creating. Image via Unreal Engine, a 3D creation tool for photo realistic visuals and immersive experiences.

On wildlife and the Metaverse, some ethical considerations (commentary)

Nikolas Kozloff 17 Mar 2023
Sample footage from the game "Horizon" developed by Guerrilla Games.

Can gaming solve a puzzle for camera trap conservationists? (commentary)

Zhengyang Wang 16 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
A Bengal tiger crossing a road.

For tigers in Nepal, highways are a giant roadblock best avoided

Abhaya Raj Joshi 27 Feb 2023
Aerial image of a reforestation program in the DRC.

Carbon market intermediaries act with little transparency, according to report

John Cannon 24 Feb 2023
Common bluestripe snapper in the Coral Triangle. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Machine learning makes long-term, expansive reef monitoring possible

Basten Gokkon 23 Feb 2023
The Pesalat Reforestation Project

Carbon markets entice, but confuse, corporations: Report

John Cannon 31 Jan 2023

‘Grumpiest cat’ leaves its calling card on the world’s highest mountain

Abhaya Raj Joshi 31 Jan 2023

Murdered Belize environmentalist helped boost marine conservation through technology

Maxwell Radwin 10 Jan 2023

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