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A deadly parasite turns jaguar conservation into a human health priority

Sarah Brown 30 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

Climate financing should come from oil and gas ‘super’ profits, study says

Maxwell Radwin 2 Dec 2024

Long-running tropical forest research stalls amid Venezuelan crisis

Tony Frangie Mawad 11 Nov 2024

Six months after its worst floods, Rio Grande do Sul works to bounce back

Shi En Kim 28 Oct 2024

Trial begins in U.K. for victims of Minas Gerais dam disaster

Maxwell Radwin 28 Oct 2024
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Experts call for urgent action as invasive species threatens Brazil mangroves

Sarah Brown 17 Sep 2024

To save endangered trees, researchers in South America recruit an army of fungi

Sofia Moutinho 12 Sep 2024

Clearest picture yet of Amazon carbon density could help guide conservation

Maxwell Radwin 12 Sep 2024

Failed U.S. ‘war on drugs’ endangers Central American bird habitats, study warns

Boris van der Spek 3 Sep 2024

In Nicaragua, activists challenge the value of international ‘green’ financing

Maxwell Radwin 30 Aug 2024

The challenge of the next oil and gas investments further in the Pan Amazon

Timothy J. Killeen 28 Aug 2024

In Mexico, avocado suppliers continue sourcing from illegally deforested land

Maxwell Radwin 21 Aug 2024

3D ‘digital twin’ rainforest maps could help reforestation programs in Costa Rica

Mark Hillsdon 20 Aug 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
The Cerrado biome landscape.

Cerrado’s current drought impossible without human-caused climate change: Study

Molly Herring 31 Jul 2024

The Amazon’s most fertile forests are also most vulnerable to drought: Study

Claire Asher 26 Jul 2024

In Mexico City’s precolonial canals, scientists aim to save ancient salamanders

Boris van der Spek 16 Jul 2024

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

James Hall 10 Jul 2024

Global migratory freshwater fish populations plummet by 81%: Report

Liz Kimbrough 8 Jul 2024

Study says 40% of Amazon region is potentially conserved — more than officially recorded

Liz Kimbrough 1 Jul 2024

Peru puts endemic fog oasis under protection

Dan Collyns 19 Jun 2024

In Brazil, conservationists try to save one of the world’s most endangered cats

Sarah Brown 13 Jun 2024
Ecosystem destruction on Borneo peatlands.

Better accounting of peat and mangrove carbon to help Indonesia’s climate policies

Hans Nicholas Jong 12 Jun 2024
An anchored trawler offloads its catch to a smaller boat within the Koh Rong Marine National Park. Screenshot from ‘Illegal fishing and land grabs push Cambodian coastal communities to the brink’ by Andy Ball / Mongabay.

Efforts to save Cambodia’s coast tread water as fish stocks plummet

Andy Ball, Gerald Flynn, Vutha Srey 12 Jun 2024

Water is key as study shows restoration of drained tropical peat is possible

Hans Nicholas Jong 6 Jun 2024
Amazon rainforest. Credit: Rhett Ayers Butler / Mongabay

Emissions from loss of plant diversity spells massive climate trouble: Study

Liz Kimbrough 5 Jun 2024

Amazon deforestation threatens one of Brazil’s key pollinators, study shows

Molly Herring 5 Jun 2024

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

Liz Kimbrough 24 May 2024

Beyond deforestation, oil palm estates pose flood and water contamination risks

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2024

New study says conservation works, providing hope for biodiversity efforts

Liz Kimbrough 1 May 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

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