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Waziri Mpogo of Tanzania's Mafia Island places sea cucumbers from his ranch in a bucket. Image by Ashoka Mukpo for Mongabay.

Down on the ranch with Mafia Island’s free-range sea cucumbers

Ashoka Mukpo 12 May 2025
Zeeshan Mirza with one of the new tarantula species from the Western Ghats. Mirza has discovered several species of reptiles in India as well. Photo courtesy of Mirza.

Exploring India, finding new species: Interview with biologist Zeeshan Mirza

Liz Kimbrough 27 Mar 2025

In the drylands of northern Kenya, a ‘summer school’ for young researchers

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Mar 2025
Artwork of the ponds described in the paper. . These ponds were part od a sophisticated irrigation system that allowed for year-round corn growing.

Study unearths sophisticated year-round corn-growing system in ancient Bolivian Amazon

Liz Kimbrough 27 Feb 2025

Study says land restoration worldwide can be funded with tiny fraction of global GDP

Liz Kimbrough 7 Feb 2025

Blob-headed fish and four mammals among 27 newly described species in Peru’s Alto Mayo

Liz Kimbrough 27 Jan 2025
Zeeshan Mirza examines a new tarantula species found in India's western Ghats

Four new tarantula species found in India’s Western Ghats mountains

Liz Kimbrough 31 Dec 2024
The 2024 paper proposes Leopardus pardinoides, or the clouded tiger cat, as a new species. This small wildcat is found in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, south to Panama, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Image courtesy of Johanes Pfleiderer. Article title - A tiger cat gains new species designation, but conservation challenges remain

Photos: Top new species from 2024

Liz Kimbrough 26 Dec 2024

Endangered seabirds return to Pacific island after century-long absence

Liz Kimbrough 14 Dec 2024

‘Bear’s-eye camera’ reveals elusive Andean bear cannibalism and treetop mating

Liz Kimbrough 6 Dec 2024

Rappahannock Tribe first in US to enshrine rights of nature into constitution

Liz Kimbrough 22 Nov 2024

Droughts could change bird songs, creating new species, says study on Darwin’s finches

Liz Kimbrough 8 Nov 2024

Largest dam removal ever, driven by Tribes, kicks off Klamath River recovery

Liz Kimbrough 17 Oct 2024

In the Pacific depths, an underwater mountain hosts a bonanza of new species

Liz Kimbrough 1 Oct 2024

Small snails make big comeback in French Polynesia

Liz Kimbrough 27 Sep 2024

‘Extinct’ Guam kingfisher takes flight again after nearly 40 years

Liz Kimbrough 25 Sep 2024

From prison psychologist to wildlife whisperer: Interview with Susan Eirich

Liz Kimbrough 18 Sep 2024
Two men planting trees in the Yokadouma Council Forest, Cameroon. Image courtesy WWF.

Reforestation to capture carbon could be done much more cheaply, study says

Liz Kimbrough 14 Aug 2024

In a fight to save a rare bird, Indigenous communities in Guyana are winning

Carla Ruas 5 Aug 2024

Ants perform life-saving amputations on injured nestmates, study finds

Liz Kimbrough 2 Aug 2024
Cacao pod in Peru. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

New relatives of the cacao tree uncovered in old plant collections

Liz Kimbrough 29 Jul 2024

In Peru, conservationists and archaeologists unite to save a threatened gecko

James Hall 10 Jul 2024
A bee with a sunflower in Tokyo.

Study finds best plants for bee health and conservation in North America

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jul 2024

‘Miracle’ in miniature as rare new plant defies deforestation in Ecuador

Liz Kimbrough 28 Jun 2024

Peru puts endemic fog oasis under protection

Dan Collyns 19 Jun 2024
Two male specimen of the Devils Hole Pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis) photographed in the Devil's Hole, Nevada. Photo courtesy of Olin Feuerbacher/ USFWS (CC BY 2.0)

A tiny desert fish hits a 25 year population high in one of Earth’s harshest environments

Liz Kimbrough 30 May 2024

Otter-preneurs: Female sea otters lead the way in tool use for survival

Liz Kimbrough 24 May 2024

New study says conservation works, providing hope for biodiversity efforts

Liz Kimbrough 1 May 2024

Meet the 2024 Goldman Environmental Prize Winners

Liz Kimbrough 29 Apr 2024
Silvia Vetancourt holds out a coin purse she is crocheting from cabuya fiber on the path to Plaza Gutierrez, Ecuador. Photo by Liz Kimbrough.

Women weave a culture of resistance and agroecology in Ecuador’s Intag Valley

Liz Kimbrough 25 Apr 2024
Hoatzin in Peru. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

A new and improved bird family tree shows rapid post-dinosaur evolution

Liz Kimbrough 11 Apr 2024

In Liberia, a former mining activist gets the bully pulpit

Ashoka Mukpo 28 Mar 2024

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