We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation.
November 17th, 2025
Via New York Times, a report on how scientists used tiny new sensors to follow the insects on journeys that take thousands of miles to their winter colonies in Mexico: For the first time, scientists are tracking the migration of monarch butterflies across much of North America, actively monitoring individual insects on journeys from as […]
Read More »How Fiber Optic Cables Help Monitor Endangered Species
November 6th, 2025
Via Anthropocene Magazine, an article on how the fiber optic cables delivering your Netflix might help monitor endangered species: Fiber optic cables crisscross the world’s ocean like a spiderweb, transmitting vast amounts of data as pulses of light. What if they could also be used to listen in on life below the waves? An experiment […]
Read More »Using Technology To Stop Asia’s Deadly Elephant Wars
October 11th, 2025
Via Nikkei Asia, a look at how technology such as thermal drones, AI, and acoustic sensors are being used to stop the conflict between elephants and their deadliest enemy: man Thermal drones are launched. Artificial intelligence and acoustic sensors are activated to pinpoint targets. Armed rangers are sent out on patrols. Such innovations have found […]
Read More »Help Wanted: The Many Ways Scientists Are Turning Birds Into Feathered Field Assistants
May 18th, 2025
Via Audobon, a report on how – from frigatebirds and gulls to curlews and cormorants – researchers are tapping the ”Internet of Animals” to map, understand, and protect our changing world: In the late 1990s, as an ecologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Martin Wikelski guesses he drove every mile of the Prairie State’s backroads […]
Read More »Digitizing Forests To Prevent Wildfires
January 1st, 2025
Via The Economist, a look at initial steps to digitize our forests by using new technology to sniff out fires long before they spread out of control: The fires went on for three relentless days in the summer of 2021, scorching over 13,000 hectares of western Sardinia. Residents “saw their whole world go up in flames […]
Read More »Environmental Sensing Is Here, Tracking Everything from Forest Fires to Threatened Species
December 6th, 2024
Via Wired, a report on how the internet of things turned every device in your house into a smart something. Now it’s coming for nature—to track forest fires and tree health or to listen out for threatened animals. You are in a lush forest. Sunlight filters through the bright green canopy, casting dappled shadows on the […]
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