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Pit Viper in striking mode. The 'mountain fer-de-lance' is a new species of pit viper that was discovered on the Zongo RAP survey. It has since been described as Bothrops monsignifer. Bothrops is a genus of pit vipers endemic to Central and South America. The generic name, Bothrops, is derived from the Greek words βόθρος, bothros, meaning "pit", and ώπς, ops, meaning "eye" or "face", together an allusion to the heat-sensitive loreal pit organs.

[Photos] Tiny frog, venomous viper among 20 new species described in Bolivia

Liz Kimbrough 14 Dec 2020
The entrance to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, a remote archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Photo by Subiet via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Through war, wildfire and pandemic, the world’s seed vaults hold strong

Liz Kimbrough 8 Dec 2020
Sungai Utik Iban taking a dugout upstream in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Study identifies mega trends with ‘major consequences’ for forests, livelihoods

Liz Kimbrough 3 Dec 2020

Meet the 2020 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 30 Nov 2020

‘CSI Amazon’: Epic study looks at what’s killing the rainforest’s trees

Liz Kimbrough 18 Nov 2020
Heat spots in areas with Prodes warnings (2017-2019). Area next to the borders of the Kaxarari Indigenous territory, in Lábrea, Amazonas state. Taken 17 Aug, 2020. CREDIT: © Christian Braga / Greenpeace

As 2020 Amazon fire season winds down, Brazil carbon emissions rise

Liz Kimbrough 16 Nov 2020

Conserve freshwater or land biodiversity? Why not both, new study asks

Claire Asher 16 Nov 2020
Banner image of a caribou calf in the archive study area by Karsten Heuer.

A warming Arctic is changing animal migrations, decades of tracking shows

Liz Kimbrough 9 Nov 2020
A white salt inflorescence along the edge of a salinised wetland in a drought stressed Australian wetland. Photo by Luke Mosley.

For global wetlands, intensifying droughts pose a ‘diabolical’ threat

Liz Kimbrough 30 Oct 2020
Peregrines falcon in Peru. Photo by Miguel Moran.

‘Godfather of Peruvian falcons’ uncovers peregrine’s epic journey from the Arctic

Liz Kimbrough 27 Oct 2020
An adult male Loris showing its teeth. Photo by by Andrew Walmsley courtesy of the Little Fireface Project.

Armed and dangerous, ‘murder lorises’ use their venom against each other

Liz Kimbrough 19 Oct 2020
Satellite image of a major fire in the savannas of Beni on September 12, 2020. Data from Planet. Image courtesy of MAAP.

In Bolivia, more than 25% of major fires this year burned in protected areas

Liz Kimbrough 12 Oct 2020
A local fisherman in Tonga. Tonga has less than 1% marine protected areas around the island. Photo by Asian Development Bank via Flickr. (CC BY-NC 2.0).

We’re not protecting enough of the right areas to save biodiversity: Study

Liz Kimbrough 9 Oct 2020
Mycena haematopus (Burgundydrop Bonnet)

World’s plants and fungi a frontier of discovery, if we can protect them: Report

Liz Kimbrough 1 Oct 2020
Rainforest rainbow in Sabah. Image by Rhett Butler for Mongabay.

World leaders endorse ‘Pledge for Nature’ to address planetary emergency

Liz Kimbrough 29 Sep 2020
Illustration of Landsat satellite Credits: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Cente

New partnership brings high-resolution satellite imagery of the tropics to all

Liz Kimbrough 25 Sep 2020
A Royal Flycatcher (Onychorhynchus coronatus) spends time in the moist Amazon understory foraging. Photo by Philip Stouffer.

As the Amazon burns, what happens to its biodiversity?

Liz Kimbrough 24 Sep 2020

We are failing to save the planet’s species, finds UN report

Liz Kimbrough 16 Sep 2020
Planet images showing fire on recently deforested near Itaúba in the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil on June 29, 2020.

The view from above: How do we know what’s really burning in the Amazon?

Liz Kimbrough 11 Sep 2020
A mother koala and her joey who survived the forest fires in Mallacoota. Australia, 2020. Photo by Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals

Around the world, a fire crisis flares up, fueled by human actions

Liz Kimbrough 4 Sep 2020
Burmese roofed turtle moments after emerging from an egg collected from a sandbank along the Chindwin River and incubated at a head-starting facility in Limpha village, Sagaing region, Myanmar. Photo by Myo Min Win/WCS Myanmar (Platt et al 2020).

Back from the brink, baby Burmese roofed turtles make their debut

Liz Kimbrough 28 Aug 2020
Planet image of Altamira (-5.79, -53.69) in the State of Pará, Brazil taken on August 8, 2020. Courtesy of Planet.

Can we predict where Amazon fires will occur? And to what end?

Liz Kimbrough 21 Aug 2020

New Indigenous storytelling platform brings community perspectives to the world

Liz Kimbrough 10 Aug 2020

Why are some endangered species ignored?

Jeremy Hance 3 Aug 2020

Bubbles, lasers and robo-bees: The blossoming industry of artificial pollination

Liz Kimbrough 24 Jul 2020

The wild plants in your pantry—where did they come from?

Liz Kimbrough 20 Jul 2020

Sounding the alarm about illegal logging? There’s an app for that

Liz Kimbrough 17 Jul 2020
Glass frog in Costa Rica. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Rainforest Alliance Certification gets a 2020 upgrade

Liz Kimbrough 15 Jul 2020

Turtles and tortoises in trouble: More than half of all species face extinction

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jul 2020

Baby humpback whales bulk up in Hawaii ahead of migration [VIDEO]

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jun 2020

Does Lucius Fox know? Tiny tech tracks bats (and more)

Liz Kimbrough 3 Jun 2020

Spiny lobsters raise an undersea racket that can be heard miles away

Liz Kimbrough 27 May 2020

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